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A review by myameegirl
Flight Risk by Joy Castro
1.0
If trash had garbage, this would be it.
The first 50% of this book was painful to read, story wasn't going anywhere, no plot. It's rare I DNF a book but I was about to with this one, but then I started to see a small sliver of hope when the story got a little interesting. That didn't last long. It crashed and burned when the author had to bring in the 2016 election of President Trump, talking about how her woke protagonist turned into a raging snowflake, crying and blubbering to the point of having a breakdown. Really? This had WHAT to do with the story? Perhaps this author needed a cry circle and hot cocoa, but I certainly didn't. The book was just more and more of Isabel in her own head, depressing and unrealistic. She's dirt poor but puts herself through a few years at NYU, she's groomed as a sex slave to some guy she meets at an art gallery? These are just some of the major points in her life that are never explained. Lazy writing, IMO. They were mentioned and alluded to but that was it. Not much story really happens here and it was severely lacking in any type of emotional connection to anyone in the book. I will never pick up a book from this author again. I have always read books to escape for a little while, to get my mind out of the chaos of this world... I don't need some author's political agenda interfering with my happy place. Good riddance.
The first 50% of this book was painful to read, story wasn't going anywhere, no plot. It's rare I DNF a book but I was about to with this one, but then I started to see a small sliver of hope when the story got a little interesting. That didn't last long. It crashed and burned when the author had to bring in the 2016 election of President Trump, talking about how her woke protagonist turned into a raging snowflake, crying and blubbering to the point of having a breakdown. Really? This had WHAT to do with the story? Perhaps this author needed a cry circle and hot cocoa, but I certainly didn't. The book was just more and more of Isabel in her own head, depressing and unrealistic. She's dirt poor but puts herself through a few years at NYU, she's groomed as a sex slave to some guy she meets at an art gallery? These are just some of the major points in her life that are never explained. Lazy writing, IMO. They were mentioned and alluded to but that was it. Not much story really happens here and it was severely lacking in any type of emotional connection to anyone in the book. I will never pick up a book from this author again. I have always read books to escape for a little while, to get my mind out of the chaos of this world... I don't need some author's political agenda interfering with my happy place. Good riddance.