Review: Overall Rating: 1 star- I’m actually offended this exists.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 24, 2014
I really don't like posting bad reviews. Every time I read a book I genuinely don't like, I reconsider our policy on posting negative reviews. However, we agreed on our policy together and so.. here it goes. I did not like Covered in Coal. I found it melodramatic and unrealistic. The editing was horrible. At point, they eat "rocky rode" ice cream, for heaven's sake. The author seems like a lovely person, but I just can't say much for this book.Honestly, I don't even know who the heroes of this book are. Carly Jo gets a pass in the beginning because she's a scared pregnancy teenager. But even 7 years later, she seems self-absorbed and spoiled.Colton. Well, I just don't even know what to say about that. He lets himself get bullied around, then goes to work for Carly's dad anyway.I don't want to post any spoilers in case anyone wants to read this, but let's just say that pretty much everyone in this book is a cheater. Covered in Coal is a good name, not just because the book is about a coal mining area, but because everyone in the book is dirty.I felt like there was a lot of drama for drama's sake. Everyone's pregnant, or cheating or hiding something major. The book opens with pregnancy, run away, rape and miscarriage. That's a lot of drama for the first 5% of a book.And the editing? I honestly considered taking some screen shots because some of it just blew my mind. I was very confused in a place where something is written "All be it" instead of "Albeit." As I mentioned above, there is Rocky Rode Ice Cream. There are a ton of typos and misused words to the point that sometimes I had to reread whole pages twice or even three times to make sense of what was being said.I wanted to stop reading by the 20% mark, but this was an ARC (see our review policy here, but I think this review makes it clear that I will be honest.) so I had to go on. It was almost painful. Skip this one.Smut Factor: 2 stars- Plain vanilla, no sprinklesCharacter likability: 1 star - I’m considering writing my own epilogue to kill them offStorytelling: 1 star- There was a story?Writing and editing quality: 1 star- pretty sure this author’s first language is not English.