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booksarethenewblack's review
1.0
I won this book from a Goodreads First Reads Giveaway. I am giving my honest review. I did not like this book. It was very difficult for me to get through. It was definitely not what I was expecting. The characters drove me nuts! They were very annoying and way too cheesy. The "dragon" was just outright irritating. There were several different times that I found myself rolling my eyes. Kaja, the main character, was the worst. I know that people loves dogs. It's one thing to love your pet but another when you have to drag that pet EVERYWHERE. One of her work conditions was that she had to have her dog with her at work. She took the dog on dates, meetings, everywhere. A lot of the book is just her one-sided conversation with the dog. Oh, and the dog and dragon can talk to each other. I did not like the writing style at all. It might be okay for other people but this just wasn't my kind of reading style.
anxietycake's review
3.0
I got this book through the goodreads first reads. I thought that it had a nice premise but the story was lacking a little. I enjoyed the story overall but what took away from it was the mass amount of errors and the switching points of view. Overall it was okay but I wished it could have been better.
tessaf's review
1.0
I got this book as a goodreads first read and I must say I wouldn't ever have read it if I'd been required to buy it.
Well the writing was awful. The idea was interesting and the book is still tolerable, but it needed a lot of work. I'm still trying to figure out if the inappropriately used phrases which use words with a negative connotation affectionately or in a positive way are the mistake of the author or the translator. The emotions that she describes with her characters often don't match up with the actions she'll say that Kaja is angrily doing something or is snappy when it sound like the incident was a way of teasing the other character, the author also frequently feels the need to specify that someone is teasing when it is obvious to the reader that that is the case and it just ends up sounding clunky, but perhaps this is done because all other emotions don't make sense. Edit: I'm fairly certain these are translation errors. The German reviews look far more positive than the English ones.
The author also provides details that aren't required in some instances when Kaja is cooking the description is detailed enough to sound more like a recipe than a scene in a story where the main character just is making a meal.
Despite how terribly written this book is I will be reading the next book because this one was left so open, other than the Tim question nothing was concluded. We still don't know what is going to happen at the company, Miri's fate is left just hanging and all the questions revealed about Siera just aren't answered. I do realize this is supposed to be a trilogy but at least something should have been concluded
Well the writing was awful. The idea was interesting and the book is still tolerable, but it needed a lot of work. I'm still trying to figure out if the inappropriately used phrases which use words with a negative connotation affectionately or in a positive way are the mistake of the author or the translator. The emotions that she describes with her characters often don't match up with the actions she'll say that Kaja is angrily doing something or is snappy when it sound like the incident was a way of teasing the other character, the author also frequently feels the need to specify that someone is teasing when it is obvious to the reader that that is the case and it just ends up sounding clunky, but perhaps this is done because all other emotions don't make sense. Edit: I'm fairly certain these are translation errors. The German reviews look far more positive than the English ones.
The author also provides details that aren't required in some instances when Kaja is cooking the description is detailed enough to sound more like a recipe than a scene in a story where the main character just is making a meal.
Despite how terribly written this book is I will be reading the next book because this one was left so open, other than the Tim question nothing was concluded. We still don't know what is going to happen at the company, Miri's fate is left just hanging and all the questions revealed about Siera just aren't answered. I do realize this is supposed to be a trilogy but at least something should have been concluded
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other than Tim who the reader could clearly tell Kaja was going to end up with from the minute he was introduced into the book.
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