Review: Don't waste your time
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 01 28, 2014
I gave this book a fair shot, but at the 30% mark I found myself wondering if I remembered to take out the recycling and if my grey hairs were becoming more noticeable.I absolutely LOATHE when authors break the fourth wall, especially when it is handled the way this author did. She tried so hard to be hip and witty, littering the narrative with so many pop culture references that I wondered if the book was sponsored by Amazon Prime. It reeked of desperate, "Aren't I cool? Are we friends now?" pandering. By the fifth or sixth time that the college-educated, professional teacher referenced Twilight and 50 Shades of Grey as her examples of literary genius, I was done. (And a side note to the author...you don't have to tell us that Stephanie Meyers was influenced by classic tales such as Wuthering Heights. Meyers already beat that horse. Repeatedly.)Sadly, what could have been an interesting plot line was ruined by an author with a fan-fiction hard-on for terrible writers.