Review: Dumbing down to the YA market, really?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 10, 2013
Let me qualify this by saying it's been a long time since I was a YA reader, long enough that I consider a twenty-something to be a kid.  Although, I doubt very much if a twenty-something would really enjoy reading about a couple of 17-year-olds.It does seem to me these chapters were very long, not only because they held a lot of repetition, but also overdoing the "teenage angst" syndrome.  Even if those things were eliminated, this episode is more like an introduction or prologue. It certainly is not anywhere near a stand-alone story.Then, let's address the pricing strategy.  I picked this book up on one of its free days - or maybe it is permanently free, I don't know.  It used to cost $0.99.  At the end, the author offers a set of 4 episodes for $7.99. $7.99 for 4 episodes, $0.99 for one episode?  You do the math.  Maybe the other episodes cost more individually - I didn't care enough to check it out.There is so much more that is wrong with this book, again, I really don't care enough to detail them all.I give today's kids a whole lot more credit for their intelligence.