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A review by meeks3
The Penalty Box by Deirdre Martin
2.0
The Penalty Box has a very promising premise: The nerdy overweight girl from high school has returned to town for the 10 year reunion and she's now this super hot chick with a fabulous job. After running into the most popular guy/jock who used to torment her in school hijinks ensue. A predictable outline, but not bad.
Unfortunately for The Penalty Box the characters start to wear on the reader after about a third of the book. There's only so much of listening to Katie discuss how much she wants to not repeat her past and how much Paul wishes he were still living his before you get bored. Then there is Mina, Katie's sister, who is just a complete bitch the entire book. Regardless of the fact that she is going through rehab and then trying to sort her life out, she had absolutely no redeeming qualities. I found myself thinking that if she died everybody in the story would be better off without her. The flow of the book was felt very jilted at times too. I felt like sometimes the story went from A to D without every explaining B and C.
Overall, I doubt that I would ever read this again and I'd be very hesitant to read anything else from Deirdre Martin if this is how she normally writes.
Unfortunately for The Penalty Box the characters start to wear on the reader after about a third of the book. There's only so much of listening to Katie discuss how much she wants to not repeat her past and how much Paul wishes he were still living his before you get bored. Then there is Mina, Katie's sister, who is just a complete bitch the entire book. Regardless of the fact that she is going through rehab and then trying to sort her life out, she had absolutely no redeeming qualities. I found myself thinking that if she died everybody in the story would be better off without her. The flow of the book was felt very jilted at times too. I felt like sometimes the story went from A to D without every explaining B and C.
Overall, I doubt that I would ever read this again and I'd be very hesitant to read anything else from Deirdre Martin if this is how she normally writes.