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A review by wickedregal
The Woman at the Edge of Town by Georgette Kaplan
2.0
**An ARC provided by YLVA-publishing for an honest review**
Well I am going to be quite honest here. I didn't finish the book. I truly couldn't. As with others I too read the synopsis and thought ooh this sounds fun. Yeah, no. I feel reading half the book was more than enough chance to give this one. I found all of it awkward, from the dialogue to the way too fast "relationship" if one could even call this such. Sarah's dialogue always seemed awkward and out of the blue. I'm all for awkward moments, because if done correctly they can be funny or adorable, but this kind of awkward was just that. Awkward to the point of cringe. Also the "straight" angle with Sarah? Hard to pull off when her thoughts are completely polar opposite of that and no warring internally before hand then all of a sudden. "I'm straight." And then let me go right back to oogling and speaking of wet dreams about this woman. Really? I can't I'm sorry. I had assumed she was just bi until the "straight" angle came in for god knows why.
Really I'm just going to continue with dialogue issues. Here is this supposedly gorgeous hermit like millionaire, Nina, and we get the other character, Sarah, blurting out things such as "You must spend a lot of time on the can." Cringe to the extreme. Beyond awkward and just ugh I can't. There are so many examples I can continue with but I won't or I will end up writing a novel myself over this subject alone.
Half way through the book there had yet to be any back story to make me even truly care about either one of these individuals. I had absolutely no connection to them reading this and found myself just going through the motions of reading without emotional attachment and that bothered me. I am an emotional reader. As an empath I thrive on delving into books that capture me and make me feel and understand characters. This left me completely hollow.
I feel bad as I don't like leaving bad reviews but I sit here trying to think what I could even say that I liked about this book. I guess the only thing I could say is I enjoyed the concept of Nina. I wish the story would have been more indepth with character and backstory. Maybe it was in the second half of the book but if so, that kind of thing needs to be present toward the beginning (or at least a good taste of it) to make the reader care about the individual.
To each their own in their desired reads... this one is just not one of mine.
Well I am going to be quite honest here. I didn't finish the book. I truly couldn't. As with others I too read the synopsis and thought ooh this sounds fun. Yeah, no. I feel reading half the book was more than enough chance to give this one. I found all of it awkward, from the dialogue to the way too fast "relationship" if one could even call this such. Sarah's dialogue always seemed awkward and out of the blue. I'm all for awkward moments, because if done correctly they can be funny or adorable, but this kind of awkward was just that. Awkward to the point of cringe. Also the "straight" angle with Sarah? Hard to pull off when her thoughts are completely polar opposite of that and no warring internally before hand then all of a sudden. "I'm straight." And then let me go right back to oogling and speaking of wet dreams about this woman. Really? I can't I'm sorry. I had assumed she was just bi until the "straight" angle came in for god knows why.
Really I'm just going to continue with dialogue issues. Here is this supposedly gorgeous hermit like millionaire, Nina, and we get the other character, Sarah, blurting out things such as "You must spend a lot of time on the can." Cringe to the extreme. Beyond awkward and just ugh I can't. There are so many examples I can continue with but I won't or I will end up writing a novel myself over this subject alone.
Half way through the book there had yet to be any back story to make me even truly care about either one of these individuals. I had absolutely no connection to them reading this and found myself just going through the motions of reading without emotional attachment and that bothered me. I am an emotional reader. As an empath I thrive on delving into books that capture me and make me feel and understand characters. This left me completely hollow.
I feel bad as I don't like leaving bad reviews but I sit here trying to think what I could even say that I liked about this book. I guess the only thing I could say is I enjoyed the concept of Nina. I wish the story would have been more indepth with character and backstory. Maybe it was in the second half of the book but if so, that kind of thing needs to be present toward the beginning (or at least a good taste of it) to make the reader care about the individual.
To each their own in their desired reads... this one is just not one of mine.