Review: Hideous
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 05 29, 2013
I got WORSE  THAN BEING ALONE by Patricia Clark based on the book's description and the numerous glowing reviews. I couldn't have been more disappointment. I really wanted to like this tale, it started with a great premise and promising characters and it was set in the St. Louis area. A place which I am very familiar but in the end I just couldn't like this story. Sadly, it had more to do with the story-telling than the story itself.For starters I didn't care for the Prelude that Clark opened with, it seemed kind of amateurish to me. Clark then continues amateur hour by beginning the very second paragraph of the story with: "My name is Kitty Talty. Roni Edelin and I are the main characters in this saga." Talk about telling not showing. Both of these problems really made it hard for me to suspend disbelief and enjoy the story.But the real kicker for me was that Clark constantly changed Point of View (POV). She starts telling the tale from Kitty's point of view in the first person then just when I started getting into the story and feeling some empathy for Kitty, Clark changes POV to Roni in the third person in Chapter Three. Then in Chapter five she switches back to Kitty in the first person. I'm sure Clark had a great artistic reason for constantly switching the POV from first person to third person but it diminished the story telling for me.There is no way I can recommend WORSE THAN BEING ALONE.