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3.29 AVERAGE
3.29 AVERAGE
DNF @ 18%. I didn't need longer than that to come to a conclusion about this book: it's bad.
In fact, the quality of the prose is so awful it angered me. Among the flaws I noted were repetitive sentence construction, awkward similes, dangling modifiers, and unnecessary apostrophes. Did anyone edit this?
The icing on the cake was at the point I gave up, where Cassey (the MC) watched Luke (the love interest) do the same action twice in one page. Now, that's not to say he did the thing twice--I assume he opened and walked through the gate to her patio once, and didn't walk back out so he could do it again. No, she "watched" him open the page at the top of the page, then "watched" him do it again half the page down. Was he still doing it? Did it really take him that long?
And that's another thing about the writing--it's stuffed with filter words. Cassey knew things, and she watched things, and she heard things. That's not to say these verbs never have their uses, but the reader had to observe Cassey observing everything else--nothing just happened. It's tiring.
As if that weren't bad enough, the 18% of the story I read was simply boring. The prologue was long and melodramatic. I assume it's paid off later in the story, but at the moment, it's just jarringly disconnected, which is why avoiding prologues is such a common piece of writing advice. Luke isn't introduced until about 13% in, and when he is, he's a cocky corporate bad guy who's trying to get Cassey to sell her business. Okay, that could be the central conflict between them, and it's a solid one, but when we switch to a narrative from his perspective, his thought process basically boils down to wanting to seduce her into selling. NO THANK YOU I'M DONE NOW. I could accept his unwillingness to take her refusal to sell at face value when it was purely a business matter, not a personal one--his job is to convince her, so even though no should signal the end of most conversations, he needs to be persistent. It's unpleasant, but it's not gross.
Seducing her into selling is gross. No matter what happens in the rest of the book, it can't redeem Luke for me. He's a sleazebag. So why bother reading it?
In fact, the quality of the prose is so awful it angered me. Among the flaws I noted were repetitive sentence construction, awkward similes, dangling modifiers, and unnecessary apostrophes. Did anyone edit this?
The icing on the cake was at the point I gave up, where Cassey (the MC) watched Luke (the love interest) do the same action twice in one page. Now, that's not to say he did the thing twice--I assume he opened and walked through the gate to her patio once, and didn't walk back out so he could do it again. No, she "watched" him open the page at the top of the page, then "watched" him do it again half the page down. Was he still doing it? Did it really take him that long?
And that's another thing about the writing--it's stuffed with filter words. Cassey knew things, and she watched things, and she heard things. That's not to say these verbs never have their uses, but the reader had to observe Cassey observing everything else--nothing just happened. It's tiring.
As if that weren't bad enough, the 18% of the story I read was simply boring. The prologue was long and melodramatic. I assume it's paid off later in the story, but at the moment, it's just jarringly disconnected, which is why avoiding prologues is such a common piece of writing advice. Luke isn't introduced until about 13% in, and when he is, he's a cocky corporate bad guy who's trying to get Cassey to sell her business. Okay, that could be the central conflict between them, and it's a solid one, but when we switch to a narrative from his perspective, his thought process basically boils down to wanting to seduce her into selling. NO THANK YOU I'M DONE NOW. I could accept his unwillingness to take her refusal to sell at face value when it was purely a business matter, not a personal one--his job is to convince her, so even though no should signal the end of most conversations, he needs to be persistent. It's unpleasant, but it's not gross.
Seducing her into selling is gross. No matter what happens in the rest of the book, it can't redeem Luke for me. He's a sleazebag. So why bother reading it?
Cassey and Luke are from very different worlds and circumstances. I enjoyed watching them figure out how to find that middle ground. A good read!
Here's another book written by Jill Sanders which I've just finished reading this morning. LOL! I must say that it was an interesting book to read but I'd prefer Loving Lauren more because I loved the stubborn character a lot. Anyway, Last Resort still a nice chick lit novel to read as I found some 'laughable' parts. It's an adult romance novel, and you can expect it's like a '50 Shades of Grey' thingy. Readers will definitely enjoy this book.
http://dayverampas.com/book-last-resort-grayton-series-book-1-jill-sanders/
http://dayverampas.com/book-last-resort-grayton-series-book-1-jill-sanders/
Liked the premise and the idea, loved that our heroine is strong and independent.
The whole plot was okay, nothing new (except for the beginning but in a way, our heroine never really deals with her past or at least, we don't get to see that so I don't know why it was even in there...)
Some of the other characters have a lot of Potential. But then again In don't get why for instance Roman was portrayed as the one who is overprotective but then he never is. So why was it In there?
Writing Style? Fine. Nothing extraordinary. Plus, some repetitions.
All in all, an okay book.
The whole plot was okay, nothing new (except for the beginning but in a way, our heroine never really deals with her past or at least, we don't get to see that so I don't know why it was even in there...)
Some of the other characters have a lot of Potential. But then again In don't get why for instance Roman was portrayed as the one who is overprotective but then he never is. So why was it In there?
Writing Style? Fine. Nothing extraordinary. Plus, some repetitions.
All in all, an okay book.