A review by dkgreads
Nickel by Robert Wilder
1.0
DNF at 85 pages.
I received this book from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program and I like to think that I gave it a fighting chance, but I just couldn't do it.
It felt like the author was just trying too hard; to be hip, to be cool, to be . . . I don't know what.
One of the things that drew me in to this book was the fact that Coy and Monroe were 80's aficionados (I love the 80's!), but pop culture references in, like, every other sentence is a bit much.
Add to that an overzealous use of "teen slang" and a few distasteful jokes (e.g. Columbine), and I hit my limit. I'm sorry.
I received this book from the LibraryThing Early Reviewers program and I like to think that I gave it a fighting chance, but I just couldn't do it.
It felt like the author was just trying too hard; to be hip, to be cool, to be . . . I don't know what.
One of the things that drew me in to this book was the fact that Coy and Monroe were 80's aficionados (I love the 80's!), but pop culture references in, like, every other sentence is a bit much.
Add to that an overzealous use of "teen slang" and a few distasteful jokes (e.g. Columbine), and I hit my limit. I'm sorry.