Review: Artless
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 11 14, 2012
Writing well is an art form, and I don't think this author is an artist yet. While the plot and characters are mechanically interesting and active, the author seems to focus on all the wrong things.Like the relative humidity of the heroine's panties. Four times per page. GOOD. FREAKING. GOD. TMI. Seriously. Bodily functions do not a romance make. We get it. She has a crush on Rhys.What killed this book for me, though, was how far OUT of character people acted. Lindsay is supposed to have been a recent escapee from a severely abusive relationship. She didn't act like one at all. She was a little down on herself and a little defensive, but not nearly as much as she should have been for what she supposedly went through. Her abusive husband was also out of character.You can consciously try to get past your own behavior coming out of a past like that, but so much of it becomes ingrained in your muscle memory and reflex that it's not something that just goes away without a LOT of conscious effort and TIME.So, no. Didn't like this book at all. The characters took the very real pain that people go through every day and used it to excuse... Dorkiness?I would much rather they behave like dorks for the sheer, unadulterated joy of being unapologetically obsessive about something bizarre than claim a tragic background story and fail to do it any justice.