Review: Clueless as seen through Fast and the Furious and Bewitched
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 7, 2014
I finished this last night and had to sleep on how I would review it.  You see, there are some wonderful nuggets in this.  But there are so many problems.Before I begin, let me acknowledge that I may be older and therefore wider read, and a real Wiccan to boot, than the intended audience.  With that in mind, I raise the rank by a star.Here's what we have.  Alyssa is a Worthington Coven Witch attending a Mundane high school in Wyoming.  She and her two besties are free spirits.  Apparently they have an in at their Witch college because these chicks miss a ton o classes, and in my experience with public school that is frowned upon.  Alyssa doesn't date, not since she left California and her Witch Ex-Boyfriend David.  Then she meets Marc.  Turns out Marc is a Witch too, he just doesn't know it.  That's one plot line.We get another plot line with the cars.  I think this is her MacGuffin, a way to keep the action moving.  Which would be great, in moderation.  I eventually started skimming the raceway pieces.  They were repetitive and even my drag racing hubby got a little bored.Then we thrown in Marc's ex-gf, Kelly and her friends who want to Alyssa from from Marc.  And then we add David's crazy other ex-girlfriend and  and and.  You see I have a lot of ands here?  So did Ms. Rush the writer.  I counted three random pages.  Each and every sentence on these pages contained at least 2 perhaps more 'ands'.  They weren't necessary.  There are a lot of grammatical mistakes that just needed another set of eyes.  Then we have the use of what I call SAT words, those that you dig out of the thesaurus to prove what a great writer you are.  Um, Stephen King had a point about saving those for something special.  I agree with him.  Our next issue is the over use of both adjectives and adverbs.  We can not have a mention of someone's eyes with out a 'glittering' or 'captivating' or 'frightening'.The last bit I will mention is what young women versus older women find scary.  A specuulum tied to a tree is funny, not scary.There as just too much crammed together.  E publishing is a wonderful event for writers, but without a pro-editor between our minds and the readers eyes, we writers go a little MAD MAD you hear!  And we thrown the kitchen sink at you.  In the future, Ms. Rush would do well to edit edit edit.Also the whole lifemate thing was done far better (and in nearly an identical way) by Christine Feehan.  Something more original might have been niceThis book is enjoyable in short bursts.  Sort of like taking it in quarter miles.