Review: Dreadful writing
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 30, 2014
I had high hopes for this story, but after reading 34% of it, I can't take any more. Other reviewers have said it's funny, and it might have been, but Owens takes the heroine's obsessive, overly dramatic thinking about her love interest and repeats it ad nauseum. One can only read "He's so freaking hot!" so many times. It makes an otherwise spunky, likeable heroine seem juvenile. The book would be half its current length and a much better read if much of this was omitted.Owens also needs to use a dictionary and thesaurus because, in addition to repeatedly using the same words, she often uses them incorrectly. One example: menacing, a word she uses frequently to refer to a character's expression (his or her menacing gaze). This would be fine if she meant threatening or malicious, but when she's referring to the hero or her mom, it's obvious that she means intense, penetrating, mischievous, or thoughtful, as the case may be, but definitely not menacing. Add to that many missing words, extra words, and grammatical errors, and it's clear that Owens spell-checked her work, but didn't proofread.I also don't know why this novel is classed under sci-fi. Except for the "fade," some mysterious means of making people forget others, the world is like Earth, the people no different from humans.It's a bad sign when you've read only one-third of the book, but feel like you've been reading forever. I may be wrong, but I can't help but think that the five-star reviews are plants.