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A review by vj1990
Shameless by Kelly Fox
1.0
DNF at 47%
I try really hard to finish books because I absolutely hate quitting at anything and I try to give all books a real chance to improve later on, but something about the way this was written just got in the way. It felt like I was dropped into the middle of a story with no way of understanding the context. To be fair, I only realized afterwards that this was the third book in the series, but it also didn't seem to be advertised as not being a stand-alone. Nevertheless, there was an insanely large cast of secondary characters who were impossible to keep straight for me. Sometimes, this works, but here it felt like I couldn't connect to anyone. (While I will say that part of the problem was me starting in the middle of the series, a whole lot of characters were external to the whole series, so it's not all on me I think.)
Also, for whatever reason, I really disliked Roly. I'm not entirely sure why, but something about him just got to me in a bad way, and it was hard to recover from that. The writing was also really choppy, and I found it difficult to stay engaged as I read. I started skimming about 30% of the way in and then eventually skipped to the end before putting it down. All in all, this book just wasn't for me, though others have clearly felt differently.
I try really hard to finish books because I absolutely hate quitting at anything and I try to give all books a real chance to improve later on, but something about the way this was written just got in the way. It felt like I was dropped into the middle of a story with no way of understanding the context. To be fair, I only realized afterwards that this was the third book in the series, but it also didn't seem to be advertised as not being a stand-alone. Nevertheless, there was an insanely large cast of secondary characters who were impossible to keep straight for me. Sometimes, this works, but here it felt like I couldn't connect to anyone. (While I will say that part of the problem was me starting in the middle of the series, a whole lot of characters were external to the whole series, so it's not all on me I think.)
Also, for whatever reason, I really disliked Roly. I'm not entirely sure why, but something about him just got to me in a bad way, and it was hard to recover from that. The writing was also really choppy, and I found it difficult to stay engaged as I read. I started skimming about 30% of the way in and then eventually skipped to the end before putting it down. All in all, this book just wasn't for me, though others have clearly felt differently.