Review: Wholly Confused By This Book
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 06 26, 2012
"What the hell is going on?" That's the question I found myself asking about halfway through this book. Normally I have a lot of positives for my reviews but unfortunately I have a lot of critiques on this one.Lord the errors! There are a lot of them, even from the beginning. I thought I could ignore the occasional omission of a word like a, and, of, or the, but then there are formatting issues in the dialogue sections, character names are misspelled and oh the list goes on. There was at least one or more errors every couple of screens. Not a very good ratio if you ask me. These slip ups were VERY distracting. So much that I detracted a star in my overall rating for the grammar, spelling, and formatting fouls alone.The plot of the book was not bad, time travel. Sounded interesting enough to me to try this free download. But I felt that the book climaxed way too soon. When Terra and Sam finally reconnected in the past and had the big confrontation I was looking forward to, there was still 50% of the book to read! And after the big confrontation, the plot took a twist I didn't expect, but a crazy twist, and I found myself asking over and over "what is happening?" and more importantly "why is this happening" because it made absolutely no sense to me. And I also wondered where the plot would go from there. Then I found out.I got fed up with this book when TJ lost his mind and I was so ready for it to end. The book is called The Long Way Home, and by chapter 16 of 22, I was wishing that Terra would hurry up and get there or just die already. I didn't even really care if her and Jordan ever patched things up. I was so over this book.But aside from the negatives, there we times I really enjoyed this book. The blowout with Sam and the river scene was great; perhaps my most favorite part. The author really has a knack for descriptive and figurative language. I was surprised and how creatively she described the inner workings of Terra's mind and used her memories to validate her feelings in her present-past. There were times I could picture exactly what Terra was looking at or how she was dressed based on the descriptions. The high school setting was very believable, filled with crazy parents, overbearing teachers and indifferent/rebellious teenagers. I could relate it to my own high school years. Yet, with all of that good, the bad outweighs it for me.To sum up my feelings: the book bored me, the errors distracted me, the storyline confused me and annoyed me, and I could really have cared less how it ended. I only finished the book because as a reader, I feel it's my obligation to. If I could go back in time and change my past, I would have decided not to press the button to download this book. EPIC waste of my time.