A review by elenakassab
Hook: Dead to Rights by Melissa Snark
1.0
DNF at 48%
No. Just no. I'm very happy I did not waste money on this. I only got it on Kindle because it was free. Now I know why.
I taught English as a third language to a bunch of kids a few years back, and the worst essays I graded seem worthy of a Pulitzer compared to this.
This book was absolutely horrendous. The writing was terrible -it felt like the author just grabbed a thesaurus, found some fancy-sounding words to replace "look", "small" etc... And then used nothing but the most pretentious synonyms to make the text look more polished.
The plot? Non-existent. I still don't know what was happening in the book and I have zero interest in finding out.
The main character? I don't even know how to describe her because she is all over the place. But maybe the author wrote her this way, you may ask. Nope. I've read books where the narrator was all over the place for good reasons. This was not it.
No. Just no. I'm very happy I did not waste money on this. I only got it on Kindle because it was free. Now I know why.
I taught English as a third language to a bunch of kids a few years back, and the worst essays I graded seem worthy of a Pulitzer compared to this.
This book was absolutely horrendous. The writing was terrible -it felt like the author just grabbed a thesaurus, found some fancy-sounding words to replace "look", "small" etc... And then used nothing but the most pretentious synonyms to make the text look more polished.
The plot? Non-existent. I still don't know what was happening in the book and I have zero interest in finding out.
The main character? I don't even know how to describe her because she is all over the place. But maybe the author wrote her this way, you may ask. Nope. I've read books where the narrator was all over the place for good reasons. This was not it.