Review: Exactly How Old Is "Abbey" Supposed to Be?
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 01 3, 2014
Because she talks like a high-schooler.  Or worse, because I spend a lot of time with upper-high school kids and college freshmen and they don't talk like this.  So maybe middle-school....**SPOILER ALERT** ....So then it gets kind of creepy that a girl with a middle-school mentality ends up with a 30+ year old man.Okay, so let's chalk that up to "British Slang" - I still had no idea that anybody above the age of 14 uses any singular slang word to the tune of 114 times in a single book's dialogue.  Fellow readers, you'd better be all schooled up on your British Slang or you'll be as annoyed as I was.The only other really annoying thing was the hemming and hawing in Edward's blog - or should I say, "erm-ing" and "um-ing".  This is not dialogue, and I don't know any bloggers that "um" (unless very occasionally for effect).  The blogging was cute to see Edward's perspective, but stupid in that if I actually watched reality shows, this blog would have zero added benefit because he just doesn't say anything worthwhile.  It would have been nice to see the blog move the story forward.The story is cute, if not far-fetched (but that's why it's "fiction").  I'm finding that I like "reality show" novels (this is my fifth one) because the public reaction to each aired episode adds another dimension to every event and can twist the story - and it does take a couple of surprising turns in this book.  I did appreciate that the characters were not able to talk themselves out of sticky situations - they were painful and both the gal and the guy had to earn their way back into the fold.This is a 2.5 star book in my library.  I actually put the book down and didn't touch it for days at a time, because it just didn't grab my interest enough (this is rare for me - once I start a book I can hardly put it down).  That means Amazon's 3-star criteria is "it's okay" whereas I gave it 2 stars on Goodreads for "it's okay".  I re-read a lot of books, but Goodreads 2-star and below means I won't read it again.  The prose was just too annoying.