A review by maraya21
Ready to Were by Robyn Peterman

1.0

"I refused to be interesting..."

That pretty much sums up this book. If i could add one more line to the above it would be "I refuse to use my brain". *sigh*

I didn't pick up this series for the premise, chances are that i might have read something like that before in one form or another blerpwise, and I refuse to judge any and all book(s) by just that. Now the odds of me picking it up in the immediate future where slim, but existed nonetheless.

You might be wondering what did make me do it and do it now. Well the author did. I started one of her other series, "Hot Damned", and I found it to be a mixture of weird, crazy and unbelievable. Couple that with her writing style I found it to be quite interesting to say the least.
So since i liked the "Hot Damned" series, I thought I would pick up another one with my hopes held high. "It might match at least half my expectations" I thought. Sadly that wasn't the case with this book.

The premise is weak. So much so that it breaks simply by having anyone just glancing at it sideways with only one eye open. The female MC - Essie - is stupid, plain and simple. The side characters are way over the top, which the author has already proved could function well, but paired with this stupid female MC it is just a disaster of the “killing millions” variety. Not to mention that absolutely no details about anyone or anything are given what so ever but I will downplay the fact and blame it on the shortness of the book. Hopefully it will be rectified in further instalments.

Now for the mandatory drinking game: You drink every time someone uses the word “Period” to end a sentence. Go!

Boom! You’re dead. RIP you.

You were in AA meetings by the end of chapter 1, maybe even before the end, and you died from alcohol poisoning by the end of chapter 2. Am I kidding? No, no I am not. The amount of times the word is used is unbelievable and ridiculous, not to mention annoying.

I do have to admit there were a few moments in the book were I found myself chuckling to some humorous lines, albeit mild but humour nevertheless. However that did nothing to balance the scales in the books favour.

All in all I did not enjoy this book and as it stands right now I would not recommend it to anyone.
I will read the next books in the series because I am OCD like that. My need to finish whatever I started, no matter how painful or awful it is, is fundamental and build in my very essence.