Review: A Right Trollop in a Pot
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 05 6, 2014
Baffled by the phrase "a right trollop in a pot"? That's because it's made up nonsense, as are almost all of the colloquialisms put in the mouth of the supposedly British character Natalie. Not only is she unintelligible to American readers, she's unintelligible to British readers. Her dialogue is not amusing so much as it is cringe-inducing. I'm not confident this author even knows the meaning of half the words she's writing, and extremely doubtful she's ever heard them used.Non-native dialect is one of the most challenging aspects of dialogue for writers to get write; unfortunately, this writer gets it painfully wrong. I'm sure there are readers who will enjoy this novel; personally, I couldn't get through it, even when I started completely skipping over the Natalie sections.