Review: A romance that doubled as a thesaurus
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 24, 2013
There were so many things wrong with this that I wound up making a list as I read. It gave me a reason to finish the book. I think that is a first. As with most self published books, this one had some grammatical mistakes. (A dog is a canine, not a K-9) There were some bad verb conjugations in it, as well as some prepositional phrases that were wrong. However, that was minor in light of the fact that the author seemed to get out a thesaurus and use it constantly.  There were so many synonyms for the word "walk" that it was laughable.  Characters ambled, they sauntered, they drifted, they pointed their feet/boots/shoes in the direction and my favorite, they quickly meandered (isn't that an oxymoron?).  She didn't just speak, words "fled her mouth". He didn't just take a deep breath, he "sedated his lungs" (huh?).  The water wasn't just hot, it was "blazing" (is that possible?). This story has been done many times before, and it was pretty apparent who the bad guy was right off the bat, even with a red herring thrown in at the last minute.  It was very predictable.  The timeline was also a little weird.  It took place during the last part of the year and Thanksgiving and New Year are celebrated, but we lost Christmas somewhere.  I assume it did not fit into the story line. It was a nice attempt, but it fell really short of the mark.