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A review by stduke
Point Pleasant by Jen Archer Wood
2.0
idk how this book has such a high rating; it was kind of terrible. It felt like the author had no idea how to describe anyhting without over using similes. seriously, almost every other sentence was her tying in something they did to something else entirely unrelated to the current narration.
all- and I mean ALL- the characters read the same. they all shared the same kind of 'fuckshit' vocabulary; even the "old farmer" who's dialogue was only made unique bc he tacked on the word 'son' at the end of his sentences used the same kind of vocabulary you'd find from a teenager who spends a lot of time on the internet trying to impress other nerds on a forum. and everybody spoke like that! no character was made unique in that regard and sometimes it was hard to tell who was speaking to whom because of this. nobody stood out. n o b o d y.
the romance was so frustrating and all the two main characters did was fight all the time. It was annoying, even though they had a lot of shit to work out. they just didn't read as compatible to me.
the book was also littered with a variety of grammatical errors. the author also elected to use the word 'craptastic' unironically to describe something.
the only reason I'm giviing this two stars is bc of how the author wrote about how interacting with an angel directly fucked up a person. that was the best part of the whole book and even tho the scene was only a few pages long it earned a star all on it's own. that and the beginning of the book earned this rating.
I wanted a spooky story about the cute cryptid mothman but I got bamboozled into reading a novel that I didn't want to finish about a forced relationship between two men who don't have an ounce of individuality between them.
all- and I mean ALL- the characters read the same. they all shared the same kind of 'fuckshit' vocabulary; even the "old farmer" who's dialogue was only made unique bc he tacked on the word 'son' at the end of his sentences used the same kind of vocabulary you'd find from a teenager who spends a lot of time on the internet trying to impress other nerds on a forum. and everybody spoke like that! no character was made unique in that regard and sometimes it was hard to tell who was speaking to whom because of this. nobody stood out. n o b o d y.
the romance was so frustrating and all the two main characters did was fight all the time. It was annoying, even though they had a lot of shit to work out. they just didn't read as compatible to me.
the book was also littered with a variety of grammatical errors. the author also elected to use the word 'craptastic' unironically to describe something.
the only reason I'm giviing this two stars is bc of how the author wrote about how interacting with an angel directly fucked up a person. that was the best part of the whole book and even tho the scene was only a few pages long it earned a star all on it's own. that and the beginning of the book earned this rating.
I wanted a spooky story about the cute cryptid mothman but I got bamboozled into reading a novel that I didn't want to finish about a forced relationship between two men who don't have an ounce of individuality between them.