Review: Certain Bad
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 03 10, 2012
Struggled between giving this book 1 or 2 stars. I thought it started out okay but quickly went downhill. And the more I thought about the twists the story took the more disappointed I felt. Way too much family and too many secrets. Too much deceit and unexplained hateful behavior. Absolutely none of these characters were very likeable, except for possibly the hero.  The heorine and hero were treated pretty poorly by their families - which is the only connection I can see to Cinderella.  The families were way too comingled (so much so that an incestual relationship would be bound to happen somewhere a long the way- if this were real life)and hard to keep track of who was who. ***spoiler alert*** I found it highly ridiculous and unbeleivable that the hero's mother wouldn't divorce her husband because her religious beliefs but those same beliefs didn't prevent her from endorsing him from mantaining a 20 yr. extra-maratial affair - and with her best friend !!! Absolutely pathetic. The prologue just hinted at more of the same to come in the next generation.  Please, please don't let there be a sequel.I'm sorry if this seems harsh but the story was so maddening!