whatkayleereads's review
1.0
What? What the heck am I missing here? I feel like the universe is playing some sort of sick joke on me as I see that this book has such high reviews both on Goodreads AND Amazon.
I truly cannot fathom how this book has such high ratings. This book is filled with flaws, cliches, and predictable writing. As I read it I felt as if I was reading something I wrote in high school during my "edgy writing" phase. I don't get how an editor could let this book slide the way it did and it could get such high reviews. For example, at NO point in the entire novel does the "psycho" character of the book ever use the word "savvy," and then all of a sudden in the last chapter or so he uses that word SEVEN times all within a few pages (I used my Kindle search feature to check, and yes, it was used 7 times in ONLY the last chapter).
The story had a lot of potential. This could have been a really interesting novel, but the extreme lack of quality in the writing ruined it for me. Between general writing flaws to poor characterization, I was constantly saying "Are you kidding me?" while reading it.
I wanted to stop during the last couple chapters, but it was one of those things where I was so close I felt like I needed to just get through it. And let me tell you, it was rough.
I truly cannot fathom how this book has such high ratings. This book is filled with flaws, cliches, and predictable writing. As I read it I felt as if I was reading something I wrote in high school during my "edgy writing" phase. I don't get how an editor could let this book slide the way it did and it could get such high reviews. For example, at NO point in the entire novel does the "psycho" character of the book ever use the word "savvy," and then all of a sudden in the last chapter or so he uses that word SEVEN times all within a few pages (I used my Kindle search feature to check, and yes, it was used 7 times in ONLY the last chapter).
The story had a lot of potential. This could have been a really interesting novel, but the extreme lack of quality in the writing ruined it for me. Between general writing flaws to poor characterization, I was constantly saying "Are you kidding me?" while reading it.
I wanted to stop during the last couple chapters, but it was one of those things where I was so close I felt like I needed to just get through it. And let me tell you, it was rough.
jdlbrosz's review
4.0
More disturbing than my usual fare and I just about gave up on it after the first few chapters, but overall a well done and fast-paced story.
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