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mjqueen's review
3.0
I purchased [b:Just Another Maniac Monday|22573931|Just Another Maniac Monday (Page Turners, #3)|Jennie Marts|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403581877s/22573931.jpg|42017780] after getting [b:Easy Like Sunday Mourning|20515457|Easy Like Sunday Mourning (Page Turners, #2)|Jennie Marts|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389495134s/20515457.jpg|36014548] for free off of an email newsletter that lists books that are free and/or on sale. When reading [b:Easy Like Sunday Mourning|20515457|Easy Like Sunday Mourning (Page Turners, #2)|Jennie Marts|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389495134s/20515457.jpg|36014548] Edna was my absolute favorite character throughout the book so when I saw that [b:Just Another Maniac Monday|22573931|Just Another Maniac Monday (Page Turners, #3)|Jennie Marts|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1403581877s/22573931.jpg|42017780] was centered around her I decided that it was a "must have". I don't usually purchase books because I live on a very limited budget. I was really looking forward to Edna's story but this book left me disappointed and kind of sad that I spent money for this book.
The beginning of this book was focused on the past. I understand the need for the backstory in order to understand why Edna does what she does in the present but I found myself confused by the flashback The entire time I felt like I was reading something by a completely different author. Having read the other book by [a:Jennie Marts|6876233|Jennie Marts|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1406560002p2/6876233.jpg] I still felt like I knew her writing style and voice. But for the entire first half of the book, I was left wondering if I had purchased the book that I had wanted to read. Besides the voice being completely different, the amount of sex in the flashback was more than the amount in [b:Easy Like Sunday Mourning|20515457|Easy Like Sunday Mourning (Page Turners, #2)|Jennie Marts|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389495134s/20515457.jpg|36014548] in its entirety. I am not bothered by sexual content when it enhanced a storyline but this felt unnecessary and, at times, forced like it was trying to meet a word quota.
Quite honestly I was almost at the point of putting the book down because I was so disappointed by what I was reading. Thank goodness for the second half of the book where it finally felt like [a:Jennie Marts|6876233|Jennie Marts|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1406560002p2/6876233.jpg] was writing again and Edna was back to her ornery, sassy, loud mouth, opinionated self. It definitely redeemed the book enough to make sure that it held my attention and brought me back to what I really wanted and was hoping that book would be. Overall, the book was a quick, quaint, somewhat unexpected book. It was not what I was looking for and while the ending helped I wanted more than the book was ultimately able to give.
The beginning of this book was focused on the past. I understand the need for the backstory in order to understand why Edna does what she does in the present but I found myself confused by the flashback The entire time I felt like I was reading something by a completely different author. Having read the other book by [a:Jennie Marts|6876233|Jennie Marts|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1406560002p2/6876233.jpg] I still felt like I knew her writing style and voice. But for the entire first half of the book, I was left wondering if I had purchased the book that I had wanted to read. Besides the voice being completely different, the amount of sex in the flashback was more than the amount in [b:Easy Like Sunday Mourning|20515457|Easy Like Sunday Mourning (Page Turners, #2)|Jennie Marts|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1389495134s/20515457.jpg|36014548] in its entirety. I am not bothered by sexual content when it enhanced a storyline but this felt unnecessary and, at times, forced like it was trying to meet a word quota.
Quite honestly I was almost at the point of putting the book down because I was so disappointed by what I was reading. Thank goodness for the second half of the book where it finally felt like [a:Jennie Marts|6876233|Jennie Marts|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1406560002p2/6876233.jpg] was writing again and Edna was back to her ornery, sassy, loud mouth, opinionated self. It definitely redeemed the book enough to make sure that it held my attention and brought me back to what I really wanted and was hoping that book would be. Overall, the book was a quick, quaint, somewhat unexpected book. It was not what I was looking for and while the ending helped I wanted more than the book was ultimately able to give.
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