Review: Detached, boring, awkward and generic...
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 09 4, 2011
After downloading this book for free and starting to read about Ally, I realized rather early on that it was going to take some teeth gritting to even get through this brief novella.The main character, Ally, is newly single since her boyfriend of 8 months decided to end things. She suspects that he's been chasing after someone new, but is oddly apathetic about the whole thing - quickly deciding that she's on the prowl for "Mr. Perfect". This seems to be about as deep as the "Ally" character gets.But really, it's not only Ally's own personal nonchalance and lack of emotion that causes the detachment, it's also the fact that this whole story is written in a superficial third person. So, instead of experiencing what Ally is going through with any amount of familiarity, it's almost like you're sitting listening to a really boring (and possibly drunk) narrator drone on about some flaky airhead that doesn't have two brain cells to rub together.The author draws a poorly constructed scene, terribly shallow characters, an awkward and unbelievable storyline, over emphasizes points she's trying to convey, and then ends this whole horrid train wreck so rapidly your head spins. I wouldn't recommend even reading this book, let alone the next one in the "series".