Review: Distinctly mediocre - definitely not what I expected
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 07 17, 2013
This story was touted as "a laugh out loud romantic comedy".  Firstly, I have to say there was nothing romantic about it, and not much to laugh at either.  I gave it 2 stars instead of 1 for a couple of reasons - the first being that it had the guts to put out story that wasn't a 'meet and fall in love and live happily ever after with only one person ever' and the second being that the whole thing didn't revolve around a woman acting stupid like so many do these days (I hate it when authors portray women as vapid airheads who can't think for themselves and spend their lives jumping from one conclusion to another instead of using any form of logic - ever!).  But if I had based it solely on the story itself, it would not be that high.The attempts at humor fall flat most of the time.  There were a few laughs, but for the most part it was like writing for the three stooges.  Akin to the verbal version of slapstick comedy, and frankly, for a primarily female audience (since that's mostly who reads rom coms), that's almost never the way to go.  The writing was disjointed and uncomfortable in a lot of places, and frankly, some of it I just didn't get.  I had a really hard time not just closing it and walking away with the feeling that it wasn't worth the brain damage.It didn't make much sense, it didn't read clearly, it wasn't really funny, it wasn't romantic, it wasn't sexy, it wasn't interesting and it didn't create any bond between the reader and a single one of the characters.  Please, take a pass.