Review: Wanted to like this, editorial issues just too distracting.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 12 15, 2012
I guess we all have things that bug us disproportionately. Unfortunately, excessive and misused commas and unnecessary apostrophes (in this case, used inconsistently when names were shortened: Han' is fussy to start with, but when it isn't even consistent, it is very distracting) are a couple of mine.I'm not especially keen on present tense. I am also not 100% with the mix between that and the forays into 1st person. I felt I might have enjoyed it more if it had stuck to 1st person. Hannah's narrative voice was more enjoyable than the multiple viewpoints in the 3rd person. It felt a little muddled. Nothing really grabbed me.The characters are reasonably interesting if not thrilling.I think it is probably worth a try at 20p, but I just found there were not enough positives to keep reading. Those kind of editorial things tend to fade into insignificance if I am absorbed, but not being engaged by the characters plus being bugged by weirdly punctuated sentences meant I just could not suspend disbelief and get into the story.