I did not like this book, I disliked the main character, she was privileged, arrogant, ignorant and despised the very culture that she decided to visiI did not like this book, I disliked the main character, she was privileged, arrogant, ignorant and despised the very culture that she decided to visit.
The main character seems like the prime candidate who would say ,"I am not offensive. My best friends are Korean", even though we read her narrative. Yes with rage tears.
The character described her hair lovingly as blonde as if she is a breath of fresh air to Korea. Everyone goes by English names and speaks English, she makes fun of the food, customs tells them she had better music and doesn't regret it a single bit. In the very end she didn't change and in fact everyone changed to bend to her bratty ways. She then made a rude comment about how it wasn't as good as her country.
Everyone one else reviewed it rather well so I won't repeat them.
The book is basically a "white girl goes to another 'weird' country, falls in love with the local" kind of read but it is done poorly. I usually roll my eyes at these types of book when the girl flies to India, Africa, South America meets an ethnic guy and takes part in the "freaky" culture , gets a few kisses, has her blonde hair admired and flies back to the western world as a new girl with a penpal. But being interested in kdramas I picked this up. Regret it. It was offensive.
I am disappointed with the lack of quality that went into this book. It reads like a fan fiction, the characters are barely alive on the page and just merely ideas, the descriptions are judgmental. This book reminds me of those catty girls who watch kdramas while lusting after the men and hate on all the Korean women because they want to be in their place. Now I know what they think and I won't be able to sleep tonight. Scary. I didn't like this book.
This makes me sigh for the questionable content like Eleanor and Park did, and I bet if you love that, you will probably enjoy this. ...more
First, what teen hears her spooky asf family controls the media, wars and the world and doesn't even care?
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I wanted to love this book so much, but from the first chapter on, Avery Sue starts in class ogling a bad boy British guy that is stalking her and she knows it. I thought,"that's a little done before. Whatever. Let me just read on." Still she can't keep away, she agrees to go away these threatening man god guys on a plane to Paris from the US on Prom Night.
Avery arrives in France and ignores telling her mother this small fact (she should be arrested for running away at this point). Paris did not feel like Paris, the descriptions were too shallow and cliche. Every page she explained the white buildings and nothing else. Most people get how Paris looks, there was nothing unique that Avery noticed that made it her experience like the smells , the foods, cement under her feet or the weather. It was flat as a postcard. For Istanbul, I got an explanation from Wikipedia.
Characters, god. I forgot their names. Is that bad? I will call them Agent Russian and Agent British. I confused the two a lot, they were both very rude with the same speech patterns. Other than that they had no personalities. I only found out they were 17 going on 35 in 50% of the book. Author should have mentioned that "my agents are teens" tidbit earlier especially with that creepy Lolita bit. What 17 year old guy wears suits all day and shapes like a buff centaur on steroids?
I could not take Avery's irritating, blushing, mumbling, lusting at the two shirtless agents by the time she got off that plane I was drinking my big mug of hate. The only thing unique about this character is her not so unique Elizabeth Taylor knock off eyes. Avery has the personality of a shoe. In fact she acts like a shoe, one that's been tossed in a puddle because she cried so much.
The Prada scene was just melodramatic and cringe-worthy. In one point of the Prada scene she admires herself in the mirror while in danger. She learns she is chosen.There was no believably for me at that point. The more the story went on, the more the world seem to come undone. I didn't believe the old organization, the history crumbled and Avery never participates in anything. She spends the rest of her time touching and kissing Agent British instead of solving her problems or having Agent British solve her problems while sobbing. Too many chapters dedicated to her literary style musing over his damn body or how she trembled at the dumbest times. After those two made out I stopped reading.
All she did was hide behind her love interest instead of kick ass. He is this characters worst enemy stopping her growth.For that, I hated him too. BARF. This "thriller" failed me. I gave it one star but changed it to two because I'm thinking a 1.5. Maybe she will get tougher in book 2?
Try Dark Eyes, James Bond , the Expats (Adult) or Cold Fury if you want a real YA thriller that does romance , action and chase right....more
Don't judge a book by it's beautifully photographed cover....And definitely don't judge a book by the man on the cover... I know that now. -_-
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Just look at the guy, isn't he gorgeous?!!!! Enough drooling. To my review! I despised this book , it was so boring! But to be fair, I'll post a summary and try not to be bias if I can stay up that long to write one because this was like Ambien. But the cover...That delicious cover....*steam rises from the mans face*
First Sentence: Maggie Darlington rolled over in bed and squinted into the sunlight pouring through the lace curtain of her bedroom window.
Narrative: Boring with stilted English.
Dialogue: Strangely modern for the time period.
Summary: It's 1912 Maggie Darlington turned lackluster and duller than a broken pencil to please her mother Lady Darlington (teehee their last names are so cute!!! I love that!). This story is based in Britain and travels around the most elite rich families who love false pretenses. Oh lies and deception (sizzle!)...Isn't that neat and new fangled?! I've never read a story like Wentworth Hall before!Maggie has got some secrets! What isn't fun about that? No? What isn't fun about that?
Apparently this is a yank off inspired by Downton Abbey; a British Drama that airs on PBS in the States.
So does everyone else…the handsome groom Michael, the beautiful new French nanny Therese, the Darlingtons’ teenage houseguests Teddy and Jessica, and even Maggie’s younger sister Lila are all hiding something. Passion, betrayal, heartache, and whispered declarations of love take place under the Darlingtons’ massive roof...
Yes I did copy and paste that from the official review if you're wondering. And pretty soon their scandalous pretty world will blow up and unravel for all of Britain to see. Oh no! Britain is holding its breath....Ain't that dear? If you love books where rich people sip tea in puffy dresses and lie to each other while complimenting each other pearls. This is your book.
Ages: 13- 150 (I'm sure there's some out there.)
Gosh! Because as they say even the prettiest people often have the ugliest secrets!!!...Oh isn't that phrase gosh darn so clever! (A 100% non bias sarcastic review).
Disclaimer: I loved the Luxe Series by the way. I own the box set on my shelf.
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First Sentence: When the final bell sounded at Bryce Hamiliton , Xavier and I gathered our things and headed out onto the south lawn.
Of course you and Xavier headed to the south lawn. You're freaking Gorilla Glued together.
Summary: Bethany Church is tricked and kidnapped by the evil Jake Thorn and is stuck in “Hades” (Greek Mythology while she is Christian so she meant hell). In Hades you will witness exorcisms, the ghetto, high class hotels, night clubs and Lucifer who goes by the name of “Big Daddy”. For the first time in any of her books you will get to see ethnic people…….who are all portrayed as evil (PREJUDICE ALERT , THAT IS WRONG!). Hell/”Hades” in Adornetto's version of Hell is combined of people with brown skin and the ghetto while her heaven is blond! Anyone with hair darker than Xavier’s nutmeg hair is classified as evil (Jake Thorn). Bethany may be destined in the burning pits of the “Lake of Fire” forever and all she can think about is Xavier, her boyfriend.
This leads into my WTF Segment. WTF?!!! Why don’t you think about people burning next to you in hell or I don’t know try to find a way to get the fuck out?!. For some of you guys who haven’t read the series (lucky you) Xavier is her pathetic cardboard Flat Stanley boyfriend (who is a youth group leader) with azure eyes. In the novel evil Jake Thorn implies that he wants to have “tinky tonk” with Bethany and ruin her innocence (which I was all for because I despised her). That’s the whole point of the story. So WTF…
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Frustration. Yes. Plenty.
WTF is up with the Narration?Seething with purple prose.
Every fiber in my body yearned to return to Xavier. My one true love. The light of my life.
Excuse me? What teenager talks like that? Want to hear it again? No? Okay.
“My one true love. The light of my life.”
Isn’t that ripped from somewhere? Yes reading Halo, you will be subjected to reading narration like this. Bethany also mentions “whassup’” nod, “homies” and “bling”? WTF...
WTF is up the dialogue?
Are you coming for dinner tonight?" I asked linking my arm through Xavier's,"Gabriel wants to try making burritos.".
WTF....I'm sure an archangel has better things to do than I don't know make a delicious mexican dish I love like I don't know save the world. Help starving children. That brings me to....
WTF is wrong with the setting? So god apparently sent angels to sit in mansions with Christians who are already "saved." Why aren't they in Palestine or Africa? Or freaking America helping the kids who DON'T HAVE SHOES BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE A HOME.
WTF is up with the pacing? Three hundred pages into the novel, something…………Happens. Finally. WTF? Who edited this pile of (car honks strategically covering up curse word).
WTF is up with the plot? Why hasn’t Bethany crashed from “heaven” yet like she’s supposed to! In the Bible, (Christian views no matter what Adornetto claims) Angels tempted by humans were banished from Heaven by God. Hence the term Fallen EFFIN’ Angels. Their half blood children were evil and always were thought of such. So how Michael and Gabriel, the “sexy blond” archangels okay with this? ………. She’s breaking God’s Law. WHY HASN’T SHE BEEN SENT BACK!
WTF is up with the Protagonist? Bethany Church. Yes you.Reasons why you just love Bethany.
1.Adornetto doesn’t feel its necessary how to describe how she became an angel. Maybe Adornetto doesn’t know how! Gosh darn that makes it even sweeter! We can add our own opinion.
2.Bethany crashed face first off the back of a turnip truck and ended up with wings which makes her a charmster! Not to mention in her first installment Halo she drank alcohol and contemplated having sexual intercourse with a human but when told no by Gabs (he earns a nickname) she never pondered it again.
3.MARY SUE. I just love Mary Sues, they give you a blank canvas to insert your own personality.
4.Nothing happens to her by her choosing. She only nearly dies a hundred times and gets saved. Bethany has no powers what so ever. So basically she’s a human with mutated wings.
5.I also adore how we don’t have to research books to publish them anymore… Thank you dear Adornetto. Mistakes, made it more raw.
6.She gets tricked into getting on a motorcycle. Even Albert Einstein would have wept to have her brain replaced with his.That involves sheer brain power from the other party. Wasn’t there a motorcycle accident in one of the Twilight novels?
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Never mind. I must be imagining things.
WTF is up with the Protagonists? Asia is Asian. Really? Oh and she’s a demon. That would be totally fine if NOT EVER ETHERAL ANGEL PERSON WAS BLOND!!!!! Gabriel’s still sexified. Ivy is still emotionless and boring. Molly is still pining for Gabs attention. Xavier is still being perfect with his azure eyes and nutmeg hair. Next…………………..
So WTF is up with Adornetto’s need to shove her views in everyone’s face?
Now I am fine with people having their own belief system as long as they don’t try to impose it on others. This girl imposes hers on others. Bethany Church is Adornetto. Great parts of this novel should be burned and are pure preachy and nothing more.
*Bitch slaps without hesitation.*
Her opinions...Sex without procreation is apparently blasphemy. You will hear plenty of this and Ardenetto can not disconnect herself from her novels. Her opinion is everywhere. She’s a snare in the woods and of course you can’t get the eff away from her , which is disheartening because you really will want to. Trust me.
Reading the first two books, I know what she thinks is sexy (Gabriel), I know she likes men who cook (Gabriel), naturally, she thinks people who express themselves through clothing style are evil too. Creativity is bad. Clearly she thinks so, it shows in her book. Plus she likes V-necks and dark wash jeans on men (mentioned so in Halo # 1).I shouldn’t know this!
Recommends: 13 - Adult.
I would love to beat Bethany with a sock full of frozen butter for her mental capacity alone. With that being said, I will definitely be reviewing the third Heaven of her spectacular series!
Don't expect literary value, because oh honey there ain't none. You've got to read this for pure fluffy fun. So I thought Jacqueline Susann's wrote thDon't expect literary value, because oh honey there ain't none. You've got to read this for pure fluffy fun. So I thought Jacqueline Susann's wrote this book, apparently she didn't. This novel is parading to be a sequel under the original author (which I simply adored) this book begins in a time of botox and designer drugs of 1987. False advertising. Neely O' Hara and the rest of the woman are 30 years old again in 1987 because the Valley Girl just couldn't have them in the 60s.
Who wouldn't want to read about the a 60s cast dropped in the 80s defying age.
How did they do it, it must be black magic!?
Take the cast of Lucy and slam them into the I don't know...70s with a different writer parading as I Love Lucy.
This is Trash Fiction. Susann would be shocked at what happened to her characters. They lost their pep and their cattiness. It should have been a different book all together. I suggest this novel to read if you haven't read the first....more
Go Ask Alice by anonymous and Crank by Ellen Hopkins kicked this books butt to the moon. Period.I got so happy than I saw the layout. So I plopped dowGo Ask Alice by anonymous and Crank by Ellen Hopkins kicked this books butt to the moon. Period.I got so happy than I saw the layout. So I plopped down, curled up and sucked my thumb out of depression. WARNING.
The WRITING STYLE of this NOVEL MAY irritate some most PEOPLE BECAUSE Lucy feels the need to CAP write LIKE
THIS
in her journal.
Talk about disorientating.
After the first few entries my excitement bit the dust.Poof dead and gone. So basically this book is written in the style as Go Ask Alice (a grittier book written in the early 70s, I think – I loved that book , check it out). This book was an updated version, web talk, different drugs and different clothes just current or the author trying to be current because it seemed like how someone thought teenagers acted not how they act. It was a little far out (that means it failed, no 70s throwback talk here!).
The Novel's Writing Style....
The style of this book is written in entries. YOU must get USED to all of THE CAPS LOCKS every sentence BECAUSE THE OMG PROTAGONIST thinks writing this way in her journal is natural. It’s in a very chatty style; I found the text talk kind of off putting. If I wanted text talk in my book I would go read TTYL or snap out my own cheap cellphone and text!
Things wrong with the book.
I expected to see progression of her drug usage in the writing. At first she seems like a normal happy girl but than the more attached to drugs she gets the more her writing starts to get more intense, shorter but I never got that.It was more like “I just smoked crack, and went to Thanksgiving, finished homework. So happy. I smoked more crack tonight! (Than describes the rest of her day without any ruined perception and this is like during 75% of the book)”.
Oh yeah but put Caps Lock every three words.So basically it’s done in the same style with the same trading ending as Go Ask Alice. Apparent the author found that book to be a guideline and it shows. I wanted the ending to be different but instead we (us readers) are assaulted in the eyes by a news letter. There is sex, an almost rape and her cooing over drugs writing while she is high but speaking in literate Caps Lock paragraphs. Not very creative to be honest.
Things liked About the Book.
The cover that made you think you were getting quality but it didn’t happen. I liked that I can this as an example of False Advertising. -__-
The Characters.
Ummmmmm……I forgot the main character’s name more than twice while reading. Is that a good thing? The characters are not round characters, they are all flat characters. The drug pusher, the good guy, the bad girl and the gay guys (to make the book seem edgier and more current but made them flat as well).
All in All.
If you are in highschool from the ages 14-16 read this book. If you aren’t in highschool you may find it very whiny and juvenile not gritty enough. I think I was too old for this book and I’m a teenager. So that says a lot. Plus this makes drugs sound like a glossed over party, not gritty enough....more
I'm picky about chick lit. Something about heroines tumbling into the arms of taunt body men makes me want to gorge my eyes out with a butter knife...I'm picky about chick lit. Something about heroines tumbling into the arms of taunt body men makes me want to gorge my eyes out with a butter knife.... But I found this book to be very readable from the beginning to ending.Note I said readable not compelling! This book claimed to be erotic but it's a romance with a few sex scenes, nothing erotic about it. The characters are a little stock character to me. Laura Dixon the protagonist of Palm Springs Heat, gets into the Rotation in an unrealistic finger snap of a second. I expected it to be much more difficult to win the eyes of a millionaire "sex pot" but I guess not! What's the Rotation? The Rotation is a group of pretty girls (very much like Playgirls) that all live under a famous Playboy and just walk around to be seen. Laura Dixon falls in love with M.Famous guy, a bit to quickly for my taste. She actually was sucked into love faster than dust bunnies up a vacuum cleaner.
Insta-Love! Just add water?
Yeah, not feeling that. So they fell in love faster than a pig off a ledge , almost unrealistically. Because we all know that was infatuation but whatever....
The characters were as shallow as puddle and very stock character. Like the Asian woman who didn't feel pretty because she wasn't blonde like Laura Dixon and didn't "compare". God, that irritated me. The "Mean Abrasive African American Lesbian". Let's just kill two birds with one stone, shall we? The Playboy with the heart of gold.... Hell, let's just make it three birds!
I read the whole book, it's on my shelf. Probably won't read it again but I can see why some people would love it. I'm just not a fan of Insta-Love with Bachelors without even trying. If it was a little more Complex, maybe.... Overall, Fast Lane was a fast paced read that can pass time. Not my style but I'm sure some people found it to be a great summer novel. Which edition is this pro book cover because my cover was horrendous!?I didn't even recognize this book! Lol if "ya'll" saw my cover. You'd pass out... But the new cover is a relief!...more
Boring ass book. Boring setting. Boring characters...Did I mention boring?
I tried to read it. I even made a little reading area. I saw it on the readBoring ass book. Boring setting. Boring characters...Did I mention boring?
I tried to read it. I even made a little reading area. I saw it on the reading list on Amazon, picked it up because of the pretty cover. I thought I was going to get a spunky southern girl but I didn't, instead I got Cameron, boring Cameron Post and her sleepy little town of god knows where...First what ticked me off, is that the scenes were 20,000 words each. A very long time would pass without dialogue, I tried to read this book but it was boring...So boring and almost stroking the writer's ego.
"Omg, I just described no where for fifteen minutes, isn't that beautiful?"
No,it's f*cking not. Especially when your book sucks.
I drooled a little from boredom , ran my thumb over the pages deciding how cute they would look if I covered them in gesso (that's liquid water that dried to paint on). I couldn't stand opening the book again and being smacked in the face with boredom so ended up using the book to support a broken table leg. Miss Danforth's writing (haha, the name sounds like a dictator. It's very cool.) seems pretentious with her lack of action in her purple prose narration.Pretentious one million paged book that thrives on being "controversial" to become a best-seller.I've seen better written on this subject and I can name a few that aren't pretentious and aren't boring.
Try:
Annie on My Mind.
You'll prefer it to this.
This novel, or pretentious spree of self-indulged rambling had no literary value what so ever. I can tell the author felt very writerly after finishing her 91 paged chapters of pure hideous description without action. I dislike Cameron Post, I dislike her grandmother, her friends, her world. The background, the setting.... Not my cup of tea. I'm not obliged to give her stars either just because of the subject, I'm being real. Will I ever get her other novels, if she publishes anymore? Hell no. not if they are like this.
Excuse me while I run to the ladies and puke over the excessive Purple Prose ...Did I mention this book was boring? :p This book will probably be used to cure my insomnia or help make children's paper.
Awful book....Just awful. Awful Series. Don't subject yourself to this unless you have a high tolerance level.The assortment of cursing and descriptioAwful book....Just awful. Awful Series. Don't subject yourself to this unless you have a high tolerance level.The assortment of cursing and descriptions are unnecessary. The first line was like this but I don't think written as nicely. :/
"She woke erect from sweat. It was just a dream."
Protagonist sits in bed, covered in sweat just thinking. Don't start books with a dream or getting ready in the morning! She puts on her cornflower blue suit and chooses a pink blouse, thinks for thirty minutes. Than she goes on down stairs describes her bowl of cereal and orange and a news-line is screaming at her. Very abrupt and melodramatic. Didn't like it , at all.
In some of the series there were crude words to describe unnecessary "items". I read the whole series and I will speak of the whole series as one. I found Steve's Character to be a rocky "wet dream" so to speak. He was unnecessarily inflated a cliche "hard ass."
Oh perfect manly Steve, the image of a perfect hard ass man. Get a seeping blood wound caused from the strike of a 9 mm, oh just tape it up! Drink a shot of Absoulut and slink off. He'll be fine, the wound will just disappear in the next chapter. Steve Williams , he's so cool and 'sexy". It was like he was born under the day of the week titled "sexy." The grammar was terrible, the novel was seething with run ons as long as my legs ;) Which happens to be very very long haha. Plus, the plot lacked in several places. This is a self published book and not to sound like a meanie, I can sort of see why. The first page was cliche and terribly written.
All in all, it's very unnecessarily. And no.. I am not ranting, I love books. I love novels, I wanted to like it but the layout turned me off, it was not done very standard. Notice my use of the word unnecessary.
I found the whole series melodramatic with awful grammar and several typings. The layout of the dialogue was unreadable, dialogue had different margins like they were just dropped on to the page and decided to stay there for a while. Just bad...Just bad. I don't see how this book can have four of five stars, ever....more
No just hell no. Hell no with Gabriel. Hell no with Xavier. Hell no with Jake Thorn.
Needn't I say more? The bad guys name is Jake Thorn..... -_- Yes JakeNo just hell no. Hell no with Gabriel. Hell no with Xavier. Hell no with Jake Thorn.
Needn't I say more? The bad guys name is Jake Thorn..... -_- Yes Jake Thorn...He wears leather, has a motorcycle and a cutesie snake tattoo. Did I mention he had black hair and green eyes. Oh and he speaks with an English accent, as if that suddenly makes you evil....Gabriel the Archangel has lots of flaws to be an angel. I expected an angel to be I don't know....Perfect? So why is he portrayed so stupidly? First he had been doing this for thousands of years but yet he doesn't know how to control his human body at the first beginning of the tedious long chapter. Gabriel is also angry to be an angel - he is supposed to be stern - not angry. Anger is glaring at things and ripping walls in half not saying no. Gabriel turned into Mr.Top Chef though he hates human food but suddenly loved cooking. Since when does that make sense? Gabriel is restless in his human body - so he runs around doing human things (which he dislikes). An archangel picked surfing to be shirtless while answering doors shirtless? Where is his modesty? And I think Gabriel was human before once. (I have to check that out).
Doesn't it seem odd to sexify a real angel? Make a fake one!
Sexify:That act of making something sexy. Example: I will sexify my face with makeup. Bethany Church will sexify her Gabriel whom she thinks as a brother.
Another problem... PoV...Or lack of. Bethany Church sees him as family but she can't stop ogling him and have lusty thoughts, isn't that interesting.
I could go on about clueless Bethany Church but she hasn't a brain in her body. She's terribly naive and always wondering what is happening.
Xavier....I just hate Xavier's azure eyes and nutmeg lanky hair. Why is this written so many times in the book? He's perfect Flat Stanley boyfriend , after they go out for two days, they fall in love and he has no other meaning in the story but being a youth group leader.The stupid author acts like hell and heaven aren't "in it together". They aren't battling, never were! Read a freaking bible. "God" sent angels to do his bidding, stern ones. And Lucifer didn't bow before humans (because he thought he was more powerful and better) so he was cast down. Also he may have cried because he didn't want to torment humans. Ah research your book please! This author was to frightened to study hell so she wrote about it all wrong. She clearly hasn't read the bible and it's very cliche paranormal romance. I love urban fantasy and I don't even know what to call this. I hated this book. I'd give it zero stars if I could but alas I must give it one star....more
A bunch of old time jargon compacted into a novel...And not the good kind either...
Quotes from Queenpin that I wanted to burn:
"She knew everybody and A bunch of old time jargon compacted into a novel...And not the good kind either...
Quotes from Queenpin that I wanted to burn:
"She knew everybody and everybody knew her and she plucked me out of that two-bit hootchy-kootch and put me on a big stage, footlights up my dress (p.6)
""I wanted to take it in, her whole set up. The half moon manicured nails, pale green suit and hat, the pearl-ring brooch. Class. No gun moll, she. (p.7)
"Sure, I left feeling like I'd won something big, slid out from some clutches, but that feeling was long gone by the time I'd driven back to her place, our place. I'd beaten one rap for the time being, but I was headed back to a different kind of stir (p.154)
Yay, can someone hand me a box of matches now? The whole book is written like this,if it was a few sentences I could take it but....No... It wasn't. It was my whole dang book. Like let's stuff as much old time talk as we can into one paragraph.Yup, you can say it,I got lost in the style and but lost I don't mean I loved it. I mean I got confused like someone spun me on a road like a top and asked me to read out loud. The narration, darn that narration...It seemed so gimmicky.
I've read better portrayals of this year so I was let down.The plot, oh hell I don't remember if there ever was one. I was to busy trying to sort out her awful slang. I remember betrayal, the book isn't terrible, it's just not good and if you watch a lot of 40s movies like I do you will see that she used a lot of cliche scenes. The font was so huge, it made the book seem childish.
It didn't suck, no...I read it.Just a meh, not the greatest book, I've ever read. Not the worse....more
The cover looks like what I call a "Weeping Porn Novel".The cover tells the whole story.... Barf! Imagine this! Five handsome mysterious disturbed men The cover looks like what I call a "Weeping Porn Novel".The cover tells the whole story.... Barf! Imagine this! Five handsome mysterious disturbed men and one teen girl. A lot of body ogling and a highschool dance. So Storm (Elemental #1) is basically about the Merrick brothers and one sexually frustrated girl. As usual , just another poorly written teen book with love triangles on every page and man gawking. The book was like a combination of Outsiders and Supernatural but written in a teenybopper way... Teenybopper? No not the fun kind of kick ass teen way, it was written in the ramble on for one thousand hours about events that just do not matter teen way.
Sadly, I didn't find Becca necessary at all. *mile long sigh*
All Kemmerer did was "sexify" (yes I made up my own word) every damn male character! That was sooooooooooo annoying. Almost as annoying as how frustratingly long I stressed the word so. I would have rather read this novel from the brothers point of view. Why? At least it would have been a story, not a lonely girl with her head spinning like a top at the sight of each males luscious face...
Who is this irritating character? Becca...(insert her last name here) I didn't understand Becca! She almost was "beat up" at the house by the brothers during the first chapter and comes back. Becca was like a boomerang, she would not get the fuck away! She annoyed me highly. The other characters were way more interesting than the Mary Sue chick ahem....Hunter. The story premise could have been so great if the author just killed Becca. Just get it over with and make my day.
I can see how some people love this book with it's blah blah, teenage fiction melodrama. Lightning hitting the ground and a girl ogling guys who have better lives than she does in her own book. Sexy troubled men and galore! I will certainly not get the second book. This book sucked!
(I'd like to thank Goodreads for allowing me to read the advance copy) But that will not influence my review in any way shape or form... Hahaha as you can see). ...more
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