A review by thewinterizzy
Plain Jane by Cristyn West

2.0

I read this book in one day not out of immensely enjoying it but purely because I wanted to finish it. I knew going into this I’d either really enjoy or really dislike it, based solely on the fact that it’s a self-published author. I’m totally open to try lesser-known authors, but Plain Jane was just that: plain, plain, plain. I didn’t like any of the characters really, the story had its moments but completely lost me with the lack of depth and never-ending typos. I’ve read detective/suspense novels that had super, super short chapters and multiple perspectives, but the difference is that those short chapters and character changes make sense in other books. In Plain Jane, I honestly felt like I was reading poorly written fan fiction by twelve-year-olds. The language was boring. Her grammar and syntax were all over the place. It was incredibly distracting to read it. I feel like I like the idea of this book so much more than the actual book. It had components that it needed, but the execution was done so poorly that it couldn’t save itself. I wanted to like this one but it had too many strikes against it by the end.