Review: Absolutely Terrible
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 18, 2014
The premise of this story was great, but that was it. The development of the characters and story line was awkward, jumped around erratically, and was difficult to follow. The language, grammar, and spelling were also so painfully bad that I had to start re-writing the book in my head in order to try and follow along and a lot of the book was pointless filler which didn't really add to the story development. I'm still not sure I understood what was going on, though, because the author also used obscure slang that I had trouble interpreting. I finally managed to slog 47% of the way through the book, skimming more often than not, before I couldn't take reading any more and skipped to the end to see if my suspicions about the bad guy were correct. I was right, because it was painfully easy to pick out who was going to be the villain, but was horrified to find out that the author had added in a cliffhanger ending which involved each of the characters suddenly and inexplicably acting completely contrary to their natures. After fighting tooth and nail to bring their relationship together, fighting for the heroine's life even, the author decided to throw a bizarre and incomprehensible wrench into the works just so she could string you along to buy the next book. The irony is if she had just proofread the book a tiny bit and written a cliffhanger that actually made sense to the character's innate personalities and desires, I might have been willing to check out a second book. Instead, I was angry at the blatant attempt to string the reader along. If I could have given this book a lower rating, I would have, and I certainly do not recommend it.