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Hush
by Stacey R. Campbell
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Last week, I signed up for a NetGalley account, and it is fantastic.
NetGalley is a website where authors and publishers can post ARCs (advanced reading copies) and/or ebooks that have already been published, so that so that librarians and book reviewers can have access to them, in exchange for honest reviews. And better yet, it’s completely free, and anybody who wants to join can.
So, when I started my NetGalley account, I downloaded the book Hush by Stacey R. Campbell.
I didn’t really read the description of the book, but I thought the cover of the book was snazzy, and the story of the author was really inspiring. Stacey R. Campbell apparently has dyslexia, and was told that she would never be a writer because of it.
However, as soon as I started reading this book, I was struck by how 2-D and immature the writing, the plot, and characters are.
To start off with, the basic premise of the book is that the princess of a fictional European country has an illegitimate baby girl, who is then secretly packed off to be adopted. Then, several years later, the whole royal family is conveniently killed off in a boating accident. This leaves the baby, now a teenager named Blakeley, who attends a schmancy boarding school in Canada, as the heir, but nobody know this. Luckily, though, a British journaling student named Max figures out that she is the princess, and travels all the way to her Canada school to write about her.
To be honest, I didn’t read the whole thing. I got about ten chapters in, and then skimmed the rest. I saw something about villains attacking the school during a dance at the end of the book, but even that wasn’t interesting. The characters and plot were so flat and ridiculous that it almost felt like I was watching a nine-year-old re-enact the Princess Diaries series with paper dolls. Not one character had a single ounce of personality in this book, especially Blakeley’s friends at the boarding school, who were as cliché as could be. They swore only to remind the reader that they were cool and preppy, not for any legitimate reason.
While I appreciate the struggles the author has gone through, and what she’s attempting to promote with her life’s story, this book was shallow and disappointing. I would not recommend it.
Read review at: http://bookmarksandcoffeemugs.wordpress.com/
Last week, I signed up for a NetGalley account, and it is fantastic.
NetGalley is a website where authors and publishers can post ARCs (advanced reading copies) and/or ebooks that have already been published, so that so that librarians and book reviewers can have access to them, in exchange for honest reviews. And better yet, it’s completely free, and anybody who wants to join can.
So, when I started my NetGalley account, I downloaded the book Hush by Stacey R. Campbell.
I didn’t really read the description of the book, but I thought the cover of the book was snazzy, and the story of the author was really inspiring. Stacey R. Campbell apparently has dyslexia, and was told that she would never be a writer because of it.
However, as soon as I started reading this book, I was struck by how 2-D and immature the writing, the plot, and characters are.
To start off with, the basic premise of the book is that the princess of a fictional European country has an illegitimate baby girl, who is then secretly packed off to be adopted. Then, several years later, the whole royal family is conveniently killed off in a boating accident. This leaves the baby, now a teenager named Blakeley, who attends a schmancy boarding school in Canada, as the heir, but nobody know this. Luckily, though, a British journaling student named Max figures out that she is the princess, and travels all the way to her Canada school to write about her.
To be honest, I didn’t read the whole thing. I got about ten chapters in, and then skimmed the rest. I saw something about villains attacking the school during a dance at the end of the book, but even that wasn’t interesting. The characters and plot were so flat and ridiculous that it almost felt like I was watching a nine-year-old re-enact the Princess Diaries series with paper dolls. Not one character had a single ounce of personality in this book, especially Blakeley’s friends at the boarding school, who were as cliché as could be. They swore only to remind the reader that they were cool and preppy, not for any legitimate reason.
While I appreciate the struggles the author has gone through, and what she’s attempting to promote with her life’s story, this book was shallow and disappointing. I would not recommend it.
Read review at: http://bookmarksandcoffeemugs.wordpress.com/