Review: It was something different
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 27, 2013
I really have to put this one in the wanted to love it but it fell short and could have said so much in many less words categories.The story itself is not bad. It is more or less about a young woman with big ideas in her head who moves to New York to live out her fairy tale as a high fashion model and then finds that everything is not as she dreamed it would be. I have seen similar stories before, but this one really did a good job of exploring how our goals and dreams change as we age and become different people from who we used to be.Still, some books from ages ago end up working well with the current world we live in, and some fail at that task. This one, in my opinion did not do as well. We rely so much on technology--Facebook, Twitter, and other forms of social media, that unless a book is strictly historical fiction, where I don't expect that stuff to make it seem real, I struggle to identify with the characters when they do not use these things. Yes, I know that sounds overly critical, but it is true. This book, for me, fell in between the periods I seem to be okay with.Aside from that, I hated one of the characters. Bill is a whiny and pathetic excuse for a real man in my opinion, and I did not enjoy reading about him. I don't mind disliking a character if there is a point. Will the character eventually mature into someone that you do like? Will they force another character to become something better than they are? In this case I did not see that either happened, and by the end I was just wondering what the point was.I didn't hate this book, but I certainly didn't love it either. I received this book free as part of the Retro Reads group for Open Road Integrated Media. All opinions are my own.