Review: Contrived.....
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 29, 2010
Ok this book was SO contrived. I don't read many fictional books (I usually read lots of articles/blogs and research online) but since I've downloaded so many free ones from amazon on my iphone I've found myself really wanting to read more. Well I had just finished Little Women and then went to this story, ah what a mistake, this book was just so unnatural. The way they kept throwing in the line about the Zoe institute and the whole I'm a single mom helping out other single moms who need help yada yada....the way it came out sounded like a cheesy infomercial, you know the ones you see at 4:00am and you watch it not because it's interesting but because it's so humorously corny and at 4:00am you are so bored you figure, what they hey it's entertainment at the least, better than channel surfing. Well that's kinda how I felt reading this book. I don't even know WHY I went all the way through the end, maybe so I could post and spare you all the trouble? I guess if you are REALLY bored and just want something to read it's not the worst thing in the world but I wish I had saved the time for a better book (even though I read this faster than any book EVER! yeah I skimmed many parts, it was that transparent and boring). But hey at least it was free.I have to say I get the point they were TRYING to make, but it's the fact they they had to make it 50 times through the book, give your readers some credit we aren't stupid, I remembered the Zoe institute and that it is about a single mom support group after the 3rd time. And really do you need to call your characters by their first and last name so many times, people don't talk that way. Everything was just so unnatural and forced, it was like a cheesy lifetime movie. Not the few decent ones, I mean the REALLY cheesy ones.