Review: Just okay
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 04 2, 2014
I received a newly revised and edited copy so there were not many grammatical errors or typos. However, it took me three days to finish and that's with skimming some of the scenes. I'm not a huge fan of the dual, back and forth, first person narration but it worked for the the author. On a positive note, the author is a talented writer with a great imagination and a way with words. She's not afraid to go all in and fully commit to the telling of a story. She gives the good, the bad, and the ugly.For me, there was just too much dam ugly. I need to be able to like my heroine in a story. I like my men to be antihero so there was no problem there. But I really, really disliked the main female character - just couldn't find anything special or redeeming about her. She snorted coke (and not the soft drink kind), she dressed scanty (skanky may be more appropriate), and she behaved as a 16 year old wild child as opposed to the 24 year old college educated, professor wanna-be as depicted by the author. She fought with other skanks and made out with her best friend on at least one occasion. Now I know the MC life is hardcore and the books are gritty but I should be made to have some positive feelings for the main characters. I just couldn't muster up any. In addition, the plot was so secondary to all the partying and screwing that I couldn't even remember the who's and why's of the major conflict. Albeit, the action near the end was interesting - involving kidnapping, beating, and gun play. But it could have been fleshed out more. For example, how did they know where to find the person that was taken? Furthermore, the ending could have been better, felt like the author just ran out of steam or something.So I'm on the fence as to if I would recommend this book. It wasn't completely bad but not stellar either.