Shelley S. reviewed on 7/23/2012 + 6 more book reviews

This book was okay. The best facet of it was the actual plot itself; I kept reading because I did care about the characters, and really wanted to see what happened. However, the writing was another matter. The main thing I can say was that it was very uneven. In some places, the prose was quite nice and the writing good. However, unfortunately most of it was not as good. This author uses WAY, WAY too many cliches and similes. Every description was a simile, and the entire book was just rife with cliches. I got really sick of reading them and cringed every time I read a sentence like this one: "The plane touches tarmac as smoothly as a busybody neighbor running a glove across a dusty mantel." ??? Really? That is bad. And those types of similes are throughout the book. It's a shame because this type of low-level writing was really distracting from what was a good storyline. Not all the writing is that bad, some of it is pretty decent which made me sad for the editor this story clearly needed. Anyway, it's worth a read, just don't expect Joan Didion or anything.

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