Review: 1.5 stars - reads like a charlie chaplin silent film
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 09 9, 2013
****EDIT****I have now finished the book and it was ridiculous. The story is filled with so many crazy things that happen that I just find completely unbelievable. I know it's 'the worst week ever' but really? Can't they be some more realistic bad things?Also the secondary characters...I don't even know what to say. There was what seemed like a big secret with Sam but then it's never explained. Trent's personal employees give Carrie attitude when she hasn't done anything. And none of them had any personality, unless if you count the fact that they're either all snarky or b*tchy.The rest of book also further cemented my disbelief about how Trent could possible be a CEO, or even how he survives in modern society. He went to Harvard but he doesn't know how to type or send an email? Seriously? And he continues to have emotional outbursts that speak to some serious anger management issues.Carrie also continues to not really have much of a personality beside coddling Trent, being a pushover, and fixing his messes. One of the secondary characters states that she's in a verbally and emotionally abusive relationship and it's true. Carrie and Trent just keep cycling through periods where he gets really angry and verbally assaults her, and him apologizing and having her forgive him. I guess nearing the end he stopped getting so emotional and didn't yell as much but he would still kind of bully others.**********I'm 20% done the book and I'm not sure I'll read the rest of it.I think so far the plot is kind of interesting (which is why I'm giving it any stars) but it reads like a silent film where the characters are caricatures and too ridiculous. I cannot buy into the characters to care about them at all.You have Trent who is supposed to be the CEO of a company but acts like a combination of a child who has tantrums and just yells at people, a clueless teenager who doesn't give a crap that his actions have consequences, and a geriatric who shakes his fist and complains about 'danfangled technology and young people these days'.Then Carrie is either coddling him, correcting him like a child, or making excuses for his behaviors like he's too cognitively challenged to know how to act appropriately. She doesn't really seem to have any personality so far except as a 'fixer'.So I really can't see how a romance is possible. Trent basically only 'loves' Carrie because he's totally dependent on her to function properly. And I don't see how anyone can fall in love with a man who is socially inept, needs to be handled like a spoiled child, and hasn't been described as having any attractive qualities.I feel like I got suckered in by the 5 star reviews and they built up my expectations but then the book just dropped me on my butt.