Review: Pretentious, self-indulgent prose
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2012
Another book I ditched half-way through.  Several other reviews have also commented on the language used in this book and I have to agree with them.  Not that there is much profanity (that would be too vulgar), but this author really loves to use big words and as many of them as she can cram together.I understood all the words used, so comprehension was not the issue.  However, I found it distracting from the story and could not really sympathise with any of the characters.  Seriously, who talks to themselves about their "inner discourse"? (answer: the heroine does)Or, to mimic K.C.King, I deemed this narrative to be ostentatious with its' superfluous and gratuitous use of the language.  This is not the vernacular of the populace I have associated with, so it became tedious as it tried my cognisance.Quite frankly, by the time I gave up on this book, I simply couldn't care less what happened to the characters or plot.