Review: More Than 1 Star Is A Joke
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 30, 2013
Before you get to the actual story, Mr. Kennedy feels compelled to rant about the negative reviews he's received due to the subject matter of his books and to inform us that this is his 35th book, fine. I didn't have a problem with the subject matter; what gets one person off may not appeal to someone else, so be it.  What I take issue with more than the subject matter is the poor sentence structure, the misuse of punctuation marks, especially the comma; several repetitive descriptions like the mention of Ryder's shoe size; the book wasn't that lengthy that the reader couldn't remember his shoe size the first time it was mentioned; Ryder's use of "sphygmomanometer" to describe the blood pressure device. Come on! What 18 year old jock knows the technical term for a blood pressure instrument?  Even more disturbing, especially coming from a male author, is the use of the "p" word (slang or derogatory word for the female genitalia) to describe Ryder's back passage; that's just disgusting; the use of "hard boner" to describe Ryder's erection; last time I checked, a boner means the penis is hard. Even more annoying, Ryder can't decide how to refer to the good doctor; one minute he's referring to the doctor as "uncle Kirk', then "Dr. Livingston", then "Sir".  If changing how Ryder referred to the doctor was supposed to convey some type of meaning, it was totally lost on me. Do yourself a favor and read a book from an author that actually knows how to write, has spent time creating a memorable story and characters you can care about because this book doesn't meet either one of these criteria.