Review: Vastly Overrated
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 24, 2012
Polka Dots-A Year in the Life of SydneyThe idea behind this book was good. Overweight girl doesn't like herself. Loses weight. Discovers that true beauty is inside. The execution of the plot just didn't work. The author created so many crises between Sydney and her best male friend, her love after she lost weight, that they soon became contrived, an excuse to make the book longer. One third of the way through I found myself hoping that the bulk of pages were a second novel and not this one going on and on any longer. No such luck. Things would calm, then another 'crisis' would occur. I won't even get into the use of 'I seen', 'their' when it should be 'there', 'you're' when it should be 'you' and more grammatical errors all through the book. They made the character sound stupid along with the constant use of 'skank' to describe any other women she didn't like. In much of the book she didn't talk or act like a woman with inside beauty and she wasn't anyone I would want to know. I won't read another book by this author.