Review: As Cute as the Cover Would Have You Believe
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 03 9, 2012
This is a very short, but cute story. As recompense for having helped a friend cheat, Paige spends about a month reading to Zach who is in a coma. She starts with classics, but then stumbles across his journal. As she reads it aloud, she feels she gets to know both him and herself. As she grows to like him, she sees more and more about herself that she doesn't like.The story is told in the first person, and the author deliberately has Paige misuse some idioms. Unfortunately, there are also a few word usage mistakes the author makes as well ("accept" for "except" being the one that immediately comes to mind). If these errors exist in the first half of the story, I was interested enough not to notice. They were a bit jarring when they occurred later, but the story itself was strong enough for me to let them pass.This story probably fits best under the YA category, but it still works as a guilty pleasure for myself--on par with some  romantic-comedies that I know are geared toward a younger set but that I can't help but enjoy anyway.