Review: TERRIBLE
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 30, 2014
There are so many ways that this went wrong that it would be easier to say what went right. Oh, wait! That would be nothing.Reading this was difficult, frustrating, annoying, and it is the perfect example of why authors need editors. The timelines made no sense: Lydia goes from describing her first day at work, and then the ensuing week that follows, only to randomly describe a conversation she had with her friend Krysta that first day in a revelation that occurs two weeks after, or something like that???? The timing is off; all of this is so convoluted it is impossible to keep events straight, not to mention characters that drop out of no where but are apparently really important to Lydia's life like her Mom and Dad who she only mentions as Sandy and Peter. Apparently all adults think of their parents on a first name basis and talk to their best friend about calling home to "Sandy and Peter".Plus the book is riddled with cliche after cliche, combined with smilies that make no sense and pop culture references galore. Why do I need to know when things are an inside joke if the author is never going to explain it to the reader? Or to the character for that matter? The pop culture references age the characters and no one is going to believe that Lydia is only 26.Then there are the sex scenes that are transposed by some weird descriptions and innuendo. Then fire alarms are going off and Mike/Matt is waxing poetical about how he instituted monthly fire alarm checks after 9/11 but really it's a federal regulation... Yep that's exactly what I'm thinking about while aroused. This side bar of craptastic inner monologue from Mike is always nonsensical and never indicates why this is important to the plot. None of these little anecdotes add to his character or explain his actions or reactions, just useless bits of information, filler.Nothing went right in this editing process and this book just ended up being a huge mod podge of crap. I cannot understand the high starred reviews on this book. I get that the ideas are there but without some sort of decent presentation there is no point in publishing unedited works like this.Needless to say I will not be buying any more books from this author, or I should say downloading as this one was free (but I cannot get back the time it took to read this).