Review: Overall Rating: 1.5 stars- I wasted HOW many hours reading this crap?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 15, 2014
**Originally posted w/o censorship at Bedroom Bookworms blog. See my complete profile for more information.***In all the months we've been running this blog, I've never given less than a 2 star review. Not because we have a policy against it (in fact, quite the opposite) but because I can usually find something redeeming in almost any book. Writing is hard work and I really respect what goes into it. There are blogs out there who seem to enjoy trashing authors. We are not one of them. Megan and I love authors and love books and really want to like most of both. Unfortunately, I finally have one that I just can't give more than a 1.5 star and live with myself. It was poorly written, poorly paced, the characters were barely likeable, and honestly, I do not think this thing went through spell check at all.Overall Rating: 1.5 stars- I wasted HOW many hours reading this crap?I'm not going to go on and on. I don't want to shred the author. I'll just keep it short and sweet. I knew by page 3, I wasn't going to like this one. Had it not been a NetGalley book that I owed feedback on, I wouldn't have continued. The pacing was too fast to feel anything. The premise is completely unbelievable. The mystery was convoluted and unbelievable. The smut was just okay. Honestly, it was the best part of the book, but not that great either. And the editing? Okay, our 2 star is "try spell check" but not only did this book not go through spell check, I don't think anyone even gave it a read-through. There are so many misused words, homonym abuse, quotation marks in the wrong place (which is exceptionally confusing!) that it is actually hard to make sense of the book in many places.All I can reasonably say is skip this one. I wish I could have.Smut Factor: 3 stars- Not BadCharacter likability: 2 stars: I wouldn’t kiss this character with someone else’s lips.Storytelling: 1 star- There was a story?Writing and editing quality: 1 star- pretty sure this author’s first language is not English.