Review: Great Story.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 03 7, 2013
From the first chapter I knew I was going to write a review primarily because I was already conflicted.  The content and humor was captivating, but the structure of the writing needed editing.  It was all over the place and hard to follow.  I read well and have an active imagination, so I could follow it, but the book would have been ten times better with some structural editing: maybe switching chapters in the perspective of each main character; using astericks to indicate a different setting, etc.  It is those small things that make a book more readable - the jokes would have been that much more funny and the plot that much more easy to follow.  The lack of structural editing  was enough for me to drop my rating from a 4 to a 3.The plot was pretty great.  The characters were super funny and had a lot of history and substance to back up their personalities.  In fact, it is great they were so witty considering how much drama and trauma they'd experienced.  The story of the supporting characters just kind of fell off, but I'm sure it will be picked up in the next book.  The way this book ended closed one story but opened another mystery, which ensures that anyone who finished this book will definitely be reading the next. Good marketing tactic, I guess.  I personally don't like that tendency in new books - to create stories that span several books, rather than a book that begins and ends in the same package.Overall, a fun read.