Review: Cliches Run Amok
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 11 11, 2013
I knew I was in trouble early on when the author described how the main character felt the day she was jilted--she was "overcome by a roller coaster of emotions" AND a "monsoon of emotions." She "felt like she had been hit by a Mack truck" AND "like a bunch of Romans had took a battering ram and hit her stomach a thousand times"! Ouch! My Despicable Ex reads as if a very young person wrote it. Lots of overblown drama and purple prose. The premise is nonsensical. Cliches and odd similes abound. There were several quirky passages that made me giggle, but I'm pretty sure the humor was unintentional. Jake liked to sleep naked and "being in the jungle didn't change that." I spent several bemused moments contemplating that sentence.