Review: Simply Dreadful
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 16, 2014
Faith and Jake are about to get married.  In order to celebrate, they have invited all their friends to their mansion for a house party leading up to the wedding.  Most of Faith and Jake's friends are members of the supernatural community - vampires, werewolves, fae, etc.  Even Fay, Faith's best friend, is a member of this supernatural congregation only she doesn't know it.  In fact, she perceives the world as a human and has no knowledge that the supernatural exists, or that she is actually a fae herself.  Everyone else knows it, but they are forbidden to tell her, because  Fay must come into her powers on her own without interference.  From the moment Fay arrives, she is attracted to Adam (an Alpha werewolf).  Adam quickly realizes she is his mate, but he feels powerless because of Fay's ignorance of the supernatural world, and doesn't know how to tell her about his world without revealing her own heritage.I have read few books in my lifetime that are as dreadful as this one.  Usually in a story there are bright spots, whether it be plot, characters, editing, etc.  Nothing about this book was worthwhile.  The plot was very thin, and very predictable.  The reason that Fay couldn't be told her heritage was just a lame plot device manufactured to create a conflict where none should exist.  The characters were very unlikeable, and in many respects acted silly.  Faith was a ninny who constantly was grabbing Fay and dragging her from conversations, jerking her by the elbow and scurrying her from the room.  If I was Fay, I am sitting Faith down and asking her just what the heck was wrong with her.  Another female character, Hope, was mean and petty.  I think the author intended her to be witty and sharp, but it didn't hit the mark.  All of the other men in the story were either stupid, smug or both.  Adam was the only halfway decent character in the story.  The editing was so bad that I found it hard to take the story seriously.  The story was filled with glaring spelling errors, ex., whinging instead of whining; their instead of there, etc.  Punctuation was thrown to the wayside in favor of dashes, lots and lots of dashes.  Dashes took the place of commas, new sentences, new paragraphs, changes in character POV, etc.  Dashes were used for EVERYTHING.  At the beginning of the book, I had a hard time following each character and who said what because of the sentence fragments and dashes.I realize that someone out there wrote this story.  They are trying, but if they can't have any more respect for their own writing than this, how am I suppose to respect it?  Needless to say I won't buy anymore of M. L. Briers books.