Review: Horrible
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 02 4, 2014
I got this book as my Prime freebie of the month. I am glad it was free and I didn't spend any money on it. I don't mind violent storylines or foul language, but I do expect the storyline to be good.With this book I thought the storyline had promise, but once I finished the book I was disappointed. Let's count the ways I was disappointed. The storyline was close to nonexistent. The author focused entirely too much time on Meggie and Christopher hooking up. The way the author degraded Meggie was beyond annoying.Let's start with the storyline. In my opinion, the relationship between Meggie and Christopher should come second to the struggles both characters face. Meggie is a cutter, but when she meets Christopher it just miraculously ends. Never to be discussed again. She cuts because she can't stand to feel and when she meets Christopher is when her emotions run rampant. She feels hatred, anger, fear, and regret, but none of these emotions make her want to cut? Not believable at all.Next, I swear Meggie and Christopher know absolutely nothing about the other person. If the author wanted it to feel like that than okay, but there is no need to have so many sex scenes. It got to the point where I broke from the story and huffed in disbelief that there was another sex scene! Also some of the scenes felt wrong for the moment. It's just too much and I felt there was not even a relationship between the two.Lastly, and most importantly, is the way the author presented Meggie. The one thing I hate (yes I used that strong of a word) is characters, especially women, presented as weak, spineless, and not self-reliant. I can understand Dinah's position. A battered woman is made to feel those things, but with Meggie it is a different story. I would expect to see her grow when she got out of the situation with her step-father, but she doesn't She doesn't want to stand on her own two feet. She doesn't want to make her own money. I can understand her want or her need to be taken care of, but I kept wanting her to become independent, to have a goal, any goal. Instead she was happy, content even to have some guy give her money for her things. This irritated me beyond belief.Not sure I would recommend this book to anyone. The story was annoying when there even was a story happening. There are better books out there that leaving you feeling as though something happened instead of two people hooking up constantly.