Review: Just didn't work for me
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 02 26, 2013
I got a copy of Survival from from Read it and Reap on Goodreads and thanks to both the group and the author for providing it for review. First let me say I hate giving a book a bad review, I realize how hard authors work and how hard it is to put yourself out there for criticism. That being said I really really did not enjoy this book for a couple of reasons.First of all the book was just so repetitive! The same events are told from several different points of view but all saying the same thing...Maddie was kidnapped and tortured I got it the first time. The flashbacks also drove me crazy along with the jumping from telling the story in the first person to telling it in the third. It made the story hard to follow and I kept going back and rereading wondering if I missed something.The second thing was the lack of action, yes yes I know Maddie gets kidnapped and is hurt very badly. That was a very small part of the book the rest is the reader just being told what happens, you're not there for any of it. Her parents dying, recovering from the kidnapping and paralysis was all told to the reader. You didn't really feel Maddie's pain except when she was being sarcastic which just made her a whiny bitch.Lastly it reminded me just too much of Twilight (one of the worst books I ever read)...the clumsy girl who thinks she is ugly but everyone else thinks is stunningly beautiful. The really hot shiny otherworldly guy that is in love with her but he isn't human...sound familiar? It keeps going shiny otherworldly guy also has big house with expensive cars that everyone drives too fast because they have super reflexes and oh yeah they read minds too. No it wasn't exactly like Twilight but there were enough similarities to make me dislike it.I just can't give the book a higher rating than 2/5. While I appreciate an author's effort in writing a book and getting it published and all the work that goes into it this book just didn't work for me.