Review: Good idea, bad execution.
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 27, 2013
#SpoilersIt was an okay story. To give a decent review I read a three books at the cost of $2.99 each.Is it worth the money? No.Will I reread this story like I do with my very favorites? Highly unlikely.Do I recommend it? Depends on the person. Everyone is different. Some will like it, others would be irritated. I'm with the latter.My Review:The first book seemed quick. I usually look for books with a lot of pages because I hate quick-build ups and short stories are never satisfying to me. This unfortunately seemed like both. It was...unrealistic. Literally a day or two after she is stabbed in the leg by her druggie mother and beaten by her equally drugged out boyfriend while her mother watches, she is apparently not that traumatized as she is making out with Madison a day or two later. After that it seems they fallin love pretty damn quick. I found the story not very consistent, it fluctuated between her being extremely tough than too fragile than a bit of a ditz. Madison leaves for college and they are saying "goodbye". When he leaves, she begins to walk back home but BAM out pops her weasel ex-boyfriend and he rapes her. This book had a million things going on and you start to lose focus. First it's she loves her mother but her mother started to change, her mother is 34 and she just turned 17. Her mother is a country club wife and there is an introduction of her mothers boyfriend, some young hot shot 33 year old lawyer but he disappears, there was a chapter on the father who abandoned her and got married and had another family and talk of her trying to save money so she can see a father who barely talks to her once a year. She also starts talking about her boyfriend who starts off as not that bad of a person but than slowly progresses (as slow as you can get in a day) as a psycho maniac who beats her. There was a few sentences about how she was a good straight A student who in a year turned into a druggie alcoholic party girl. Anyway so she moves to Texas meets Madison the second she gets off the bus and that night is already not traumatized enough that she makes out with him even though a few hours earlier she had been stabbed by her mother, beaten up so bad by her boyfriend AND she had taken THREE pain pills instead of the recommended one and was still wide awake....anyone who knows about prescription pain meds know you get sluggish especially when you take TWO more than recommended. AND that hospitals are required by law to report possible abuse of a minor and need parental consent for that kind of medication. In Texas there are a jumble of possible story lines that don't end up anywhere and introductions to people who have no significance though we are given pretty long descriptions of their physical appearances and actions (point? Maybe space filler??). I probably will not remember this story tomorrow and will not reread but it was a nice effort. Not worth the price...I have read better $0.99 stories that were longer, more consuming and fascinating. I would encourage author to keep going because she definitely had ideas just needs to work with an editor and maybe plan the structure of the books a little better.