Review: Not a mystery, and not that much "suspense" IMO either
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2013
If you are looking for a book about kids in their late teens (a little under 20 or thereabouts) obsessed with drinking, sex, and drugs AND you don't care about editing or a book being able to keep track of its own events, this is probably the book for you.But for me it barely even earns 2 stars.First of all, the blurb that led me to download it really played up the suspense and the art stuff, so it made me expect something at least part mystery. That blurb isn't what I currently see here, luckily, and hopefully it will never be used again, so it won't deceive any other mystery readers into wasting their energy on this book. Especially since you are well into the book before there is much that resembles suspense (unless you consider it suspense to find out when and how someone will or won't lose her virginity and who will sleep with whom...)Then we have the lack of decent copy editing. Then we have the lack of any editing. Awkwardness, wrong word errors, plurals instead of possessives, etc., abound. And there are at least two incidents where the book contradicts itself in terms of what is and isn't known to characters. I HATE books that do that. Beyond all that, it really just isn't that interesting to me and the writing isn't what I want to see. I only read it to the end in an attempt to be fair writing this review.