Review: Poorly written and terribly paced; a total wallbanger
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 12, 2013
I really enjoyed Ms. Mayer's Rylee Adamson series, so I decided to give this book a try. Big mistake. It's hard to believe that the same person wrote these two series. Dark Waters makes no sense. The dialog is atrocious. Quinn is as thick as the Great Wall of China, and I'm sure that she would have rated my "too stupid to live" tag on Goodreads, if I could be bothered to shelve this title. And the way that the (supposedly non-crazy) family members in this book speak to one another??? I can't even.I generally like stories that start in the middle of things and force the reader to catch up, but that presupposes that the author does a good job of world-building, which isn't the case here. I gave up less than 30% of the way into this book. My frustrations with it began before 10%, but I wanted to give it a fair shot before ditching it. The crazy thing is that I tried the sample, didn't like it, and gave the full book a shot anyway. Silly me.I will echo another reviewer and thank my lucky stars that this book was only $0.99. It's books like this that inspire some readers to impose a blanket ban on buying books that cost LESS than $2.99. While I haven't reached that point yet, I'm getting much pickier about the dollar books that I will read. If I hadn't been a fan of this author's other series, I wouldn't have tried this one out. I would have missed nothing, and saved myself a buck. Lesson learned.