Review: KDH Reviews
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 23, 2013
I hoped and prayed that Redemption had seen an editor. Sadly, it was much like the first book. There were grammatical and spelling errors everywhere.When I reviewed the first book, Beautiful Disaster, I had a hard time. I started the review thinking that I was going to give it rave review. The more I thought about it, though, the less that made sense. Now, after reading Redemption I have no idea why I ever thought Beautiful Disaster deserved rave reviews.Besides the editing issues, the story just... I don't even know what. There's more going on in this book than there was in the first book. It felt messy and ridiculous. It seems like Phal just threw different story lines into the book to make it longer. Nothing tied together nicely.I didn't like the characters this time around. While I wasn't too fond of them in the first book, I liked them even less in this book. I didn't care about them and I didn't really understand the craziness. The biggest disappointment for me was Nicholas 10 years later. Ellie wasn't much better. The only character that I ended up liking was Maddie. I liked her transformation into a more confident and happy woman. Everyone else was just nonsense.There's much more sex in this book. While I was hesitant to call Beautiful Disaster erotica, there's no hesitation here.After everything is said and done, I feel like I've wasted my time reading both of these books. They are both just a hot mess. My previous review of Beautiful Disaster had to have been influenced by... I don't know what. I do know that I wouldn't rate it as highly now as I did then. I doubt that I'll be reading any more of Phal's work, especially if she doesn't invest in an editor or at least let some beta readers help her with editing.Check out all of my reviews on my blog, KDH Reviews.