Review: I wanted to like it.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 5, 2013
In Selling Scarlett  by Ella James. Elizabeth Deville is a broke bottled water heiress and she has been in love with Hunter West a wealthy heir and professional poker player since she was a kid. One night at his party things heat up and end up going wrong. Elizabeth later has an idea to sell her virginity to the highest bidder to pay for her injured best friend Cross's medical bills. In selling herself at the Love Inc. ranch near Las Vegas she unwillingly gets caught up in the mess of Hunter's life and becomes a target of the people trying to frame him for murder. This book was well written up until the point where you figured out the typos were a huge problem to the point of pivotal moments in the book such as the number sequence was wrong or whole words were missing from a sentence. Also for me was Ella James' use of the expression "holy". Elizabeth said things like "holy belly bats" and " holy crab cakes " a lot in this book and it was a turnoff for me because it was so childish and dated. The author tried to give this character a personality and the attempt at cute quirks was just stupid after a while, especially when you couple this with a sub par plot line. Selling Scarlett went on way to long for James' to write just another story in this genre. There wasn't enough to set this book or its author's writing apart from any of the other books on amazon or good reads that are marketed towards a specific female audience. I wasn't even angry when the sex scene finally arrived after so much teasing. It of course was nothing to be exited about and was lackluster when you consider how this book was marketed. I initially purchased this because it was cheap and it looked interesting but overall the characters, plot twists, and mystery elements here were redundant. I really wanted to like this book and its a testament that I actually read the whole thing including the author's note cleverly explaining the errors. I'm not going to pretend that I am a professional author or that I have published anything but I am a speaker of the English language and a college student and I would never turn in a finished piece of work that is incorrect with simple grammatical errors.Two stars for something so childishly done.