Review: I couldn't get past the author's bizarre writing style.
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 5, 2014
I really wanted to like this book -- I like the premise (as described on the Amazon sales page), the title, even the cover art -- and when I sat down to read this I was in the perfect mood for a dishy, fast-paced romantic comedy. However, starting with the very first paragraph, I was completely thrown the by author's bizarre writing style. In fact, I had to go over the opening line five or six times just to make sense of it (and no, I don't have a reading problem). Sally Mason has adopted the strangest style of narration I have ever encountered. It's all in present tense, and sounds very much like the narration that might accompany some bad, celebrity-based reality TV show. The problem is that -- without a video track to go along with the narration -- the story is just about impossible to follow. Well, if not impossible, then too much effort for this reader. I can see that Mason is intelligent and more than capable of stringing words together into coherent sentences (and I bet she's a  hoot in person), so I'm mystified by what seems like a deliberate decision to flaut writing conventions. All I can say is that an opening paragraph is like a writer's introduction; one should think twice before kicking the reader in the nuts right out of the gate.