Review: A Bad Read
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 18, 2014
Just plain boring.  Heroine, Emma, is supposed to be a nerdish teenager who studied art in Paris (where she had a lot of sex) and has come home and made a career for herself as a graphic designer.  She's a sexy, self-confident today's woman who runs into her teenage crush who is a newly-minted attorney on the fast track at his firm.  He is instantly smitten with Heroine who is ecstatic until she remembers that her older sister, the one who always gets the happy ending, wants Hero too.  The book goes downhill from there.Heroine doesn't want Sis to know that she and Hero are getting it on, and spends pages and pages angsting over her predicament.  Sis is promiscuous and uses Heroine's apartment for her lunchtime quickies, says unbelievably mean things to Heroine, and steamrollers through on her way to getting what she wants and damn anyone who gets in her way.  Heroine forgives her because Sis is her sister and "best friend".  (What's that cliche about with friends like that, who needs enemies?)To make things worse, the author writes at about a tenth grade level -- there aren't a whole lot of grammatical errors, but there's no excitement in her writing; it just drones on.  Between the annoying heroine, the annoying sister, the stupid plot, and the bad writing I quit at 67% because I just didn't give a darn what happened to the characters.This is Number One in a series which I won't be reading.