Review: author insulting my intelligence
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 24, 2013
I had already read two books in the author's Battlescars series before reading Second Chance Romance. This book was offered for free so I snatched it up. Interestingly, reading this book caused me to revisit the two I had already read. Looking at these three works together I realized that the author does not write at the level of a high school graduate. There are numerous grammatical, structural, word usage and stylistic errors.I am not such a snob that I cannot enjoy a novel that has grammatical and stylistic problems. Andria Large's Beck Brothers series is full of tense shifting and other issues, but the characters are so engaging and the stories are so compelling that I didn't fully realize the extent of the technical problems with her novels until I reread the series. I still love her books in spite of the problemsEven if I ignore all of the technical issues in Ms. Monroe's novels there is the problem of the dumb, immature heroine, which is present in all three books. The heroines speak like immature, trashy 17-year-olds when confronted with their nemeses. The verbal sparring Ms. Monroe writes is laughably adolescent. This was particularly bothersome in SCR because the heroine is completing her master's degree in comparative literature at Columbia. Really? She definitely does not speak like an educated person. I'm guessing she speaks like the author.Ms. Monroe uses the plot device of unplanned pregnancy in all three of these novels. I can only assume that an unplanned pregnancy is in store for Derek in Conflicted. Sooner or later someone in their social circle needs to figure out how to use birth control correctly.Furthermore, I have read the author's response to some of the negative reviews and am very turned off to Ms. Monroe. She doesn't seem to respect her readers and I am done.