Review: Awful
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 24, 2014
It's been a long time since I've read a book this bad. The writing is at a seventh grade level which is about the same level as the emotional maturity of the characters. If the author hadn't spelled out that the hero and heroine were over the age of twenty-one, the reader couldn't be blamed for thinking she was reading about two horny teenagers. Mark, the hero, is an unmitigated jerk, and his slut shaming scene makes him a shoo-in for the Jerk Hall of Fame. Penny, the heroine, makes a big deal about the unwanted advances she gets and proceeds to fall into bed with Mark on the second or third time they meet.The writing is just plain bad, the characters are one dimensional, and the dialogue is stilted. The author has the annoying mannerism of telling us what the character is thinking and then verbalizing those thoughts with inner dialogue which, for some unknown reason, she likes to put in italics. On some pages there is more italics that regular text. Very confusing.I almost quit at 50%, but by then the story was so bad, I felt compelled to keep on reading to see how much worse it could get. It didn't disappoint -- all the ends were tied up in a most unsatisfactory manner.I can't recommend this book to anyone.