If I had to sum up Holly Kinsella’s novel Tell Him About It in a single word, it would be “meh.” The slow-paced story is very predictable and the characters’ endless inner thoughts are obvious and repetitive. Worse, the viewpoint switches between characters constantly and confusingly, even within a single paragraph. Several of the characters […]
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Happy(ish)
Despite the instant dislike I took to Cara Trautman’s Happy(ish) during the opening scene, I kept reading and kept thinking “I really don’t like this.” I even re-read the mostly glowing reviews on Amazon, hoping to find one that shared my aversion to it.
Thin Rich Bitches
Writing negative reviews is even less fun than reading bad books, so when Janet Eve Josselyn asked me to review her novel Thin Rich Bitches, the title alone was enough to give me pause. After reading the decidedly mixed reviews on the net, I wrote back to tell the author that I had a feeling […]
Sex and the City
Though I love the TV show, Candace Bushnell’s book Sex and the City is very dull. I actually read it long before I ever started watching the show – in fact, that’s why I held out for so long. You know how you read a fantastic book and then are often disappointed by the book? […]
Boy Meets Girl
A modern day epistolary novel, Meg Cabot’s Boy Meets Girl is told entirely through emails, notes, instant messaging, voice mails, and the like. Except I don’t – like it, that is. It’s one thing for a book to be written in the form of two people writing letters to one another – where both parties’ […]
Suddenly Single
I’m sure that Sheila O’Flanagan tried to dumb down the financial market info in Suddenly Single, but even so I couldn’t understand much of it (and there was a lot) and therefore the whole story was far less interesting than it might have been. There was no humor, either, so in the end I found […]