Review: Felt Like Uncompleted College Esssys
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 08 11, 2012
I found this writer on Twitter and feel really taken advantage of for $3.99. The book had numerous typos, and so many expletives that it was hard to focus. The author may have been an English major, but BYU didn't teach her how to write. I was hoping for a stunning book, a book that explained Mormonism; may be even some portions that covered their books; such as Pearl of Great Price. Instead I felt, having been an adjunct writing professor, that the author should have flushed out her "stories." Not only was the writing scattered, but I was left hanging after each diatribe.She did not adequately explain, nor substantiate most of her experiences. This book is really about venom and hatred. How is Mormon dysfunction any different than any other households? I have two ex-Mormon friends, and a Catholic friend who married a Mormon. I've read the Mormon books, and felt I learned more from my friends than from this book about the LDS Church. Her families dysfunction: a terror of an older brother, a depressed mother, pushy parents; all exist in non-Mormon households. Jones did not bring her story to the forefront when explaining how her horrible existence with her toxic family was an different than say a Catholic girls.I wouldn't recommend buying this book. As a word of advice, expletives are often better in smaller quantities; in this book they felt like an assault. Every time the author dropped the F-bomb, I wondered if it was for effect, or if she was incapable of coming up with a better word for what she was describing.Perhaps, in ten years, after the author reads and writes more she will be a writer that has some good, fully flushed out content for a better book, or even short stories; but @krautgrrl says this book is a waste of your time.