Review: Jarringly bad
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 20, 2013
The premise is standard fare, but the prose continually breaks the 'suspension of disbelief' that is necessary for this kind of work. There is a little bit of interesting character relationship potential, but those themes are mismanaged into apathetic, unsatisfying failure.The most unacceptable part of this book is the descriptive word selection. Verbs and adjectives are so inappropriately used that not only does the prose lose integrity in carrying the narrative tone of the moment, it caused me to stop reading on numerous occasions, asking myself, "wait... he did what? He SCREAMED at his friend at the top of the stairs to say 'Come on up'?!?!"The best description of this writing that I feel will summarize the experience: It's a derivative story line written by a 13-year-old who relies heavily on a thesaurus in an effort to 'spice things up' with unusual word selections.I didn't pay a lot for this, but I'd feel much more fulfilled if I had just flushed the money down the toilet; and the unpleasantness would have been over much, much more quickly.