Review: Poor Editing, Stilted Dialogue, Witchy Bride and Whiny "Heroine"
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 21, 2013
Between Friends is the story of best friends who discover they have more than friendly feelings for one another.  On a drunken flip of a coin, they end up having sex.  Morning comes and our lovely "heroine" shouts at her best friend, telling him it was a mistake and that he should go.  She seems to blame him for the entire situation.  The poor guy should have just kept on going, never looking back.  My quotes around the word heroine are intentional, much like I'd use them if I said I "enjoyed" this book.This book is filled with errors, from typos and grammatical problems to words used incorrectly.  I'm not perfect, but a lot of the errors should have been caught as soon as the words left the author's fingers, so to speak.The so-called "friends" in this book treat each other horribly.  Jessica, the bride, is a self-absorbed, shallow, hateful woman.  None of the others seem to be any better.  When one of the friends is obviously drunk and falls face-first out of a cab, only one friend shows any concern.  Another one slaps the drunken friend (or should I say MORE drunken?) and says she's fine.The dialogue in this book makes me think of things my children wrote when they were young.  Has this author never heard of a contraction?  Does every single word need to be used?  Example:  "I am drunk.  I should not have had sex with that young woman.  She is mean and petty.  She is immature."  You get the idea.  There's this nifty little device called an apostrophe to shorten words and make dialogue sound more natural.  "I'm drunk.  She's a rude witch.  I should've passed on this book."  See?I'm not a big fan of the present-tense, first person narrative, either.  Example:  He looks at me.  He kisses my cheek.  I grab our luggage.  It comes off as very unpolished and unprofessional from a writing standpoint.Finally, I'm aware of the 17+ warning on this book.  I'm not a prude, nor am I averse to a little steamy sex.  But drunken sex, casual sex, sex for the sake of "breaking a dry spell"?  Ugh.  Coarse, vulgar and trashy.I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone.  Interesting point, I might've said I'd recommend it to younger readers because of the immaturity of the writing, characters and plot, but that 17+ warning even negated that.