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A review by trish204
Cats, Scarves and Liars by Kathryn White
1.0
To begin let me say that 1 star is actually generous!
What really pissed me off were all those typos! This isn't a self-published novel as far as I could find out so there should have been a publisher somewhere in the process which makes the amount of typos in this book simply unacceptable (actually, I've read quite a lot of self-published books and they had either no typos at all or just a few).
Also, reading this book until the very end was a real fight and more than once I was tempted to give up but somehow I always clung to the hope that it would get better - which it unfortunately didn't.
The synopsis sounded great but what the story turned into was simply awful. I'm so happy I was able to get this book via the amazon Kindle library because to have even only spent 2€ would have been a waste.
To be specific, let me give some examples of how awful the book was:
1) The main character, Peppa, is shy and absolutely NOT self-confident. That itself is not a crime, I can totally relate to it. However, in this case the woman was getting even on my nerves with her endless "He's too good for me" crap!
2) After the first 10 pages I knew exactly where at least half of the book was going (who had killed Tony, that their marriage wasn't as peachy as one had thought at first, who Peppa's father/grandfather was, ...)!
3) At approximatly half of the book the author "reveals" the things that were obvious after page 10 in a painstakingly detailed way.
Then you'd think that there was still enough time to turn things around, get some plot twists into the story but nooooo.
4) All characters are very flat. Absolutely no depth to them. Black and white (and both sides are overdrawn).
5) Even hard-core fantasy fans would have a hard time digesting the "supernatural twist" the author worked into this book because it's "explanation" simply makes absolutely no sense (and yes, even fantasy elements need to make sense on a certain level).
...
I could go on and on but the above mentioned points should be enough for everyone to get the idea. I was really sorry to see a story with such a sweet and good idea being turned into such a waste of time. :-(
What really pissed me off were all those typos! This isn't a self-published novel as far as I could find out so there should have been a publisher somewhere in the process which makes the amount of typos in this book simply unacceptable (actually, I've read quite a lot of self-published books and they had either no typos at all or just a few).
Also, reading this book until the very end was a real fight and more than once I was tempted to give up but somehow I always clung to the hope that it would get better - which it unfortunately didn't.
The synopsis sounded great but what the story turned into was simply awful. I'm so happy I was able to get this book via the amazon Kindle library because to have even only spent 2€ would have been a waste.
To be specific, let me give some examples of how awful the book was:
1) The main character, Peppa, is shy and absolutely NOT self-confident. That itself is not a crime, I can totally relate to it. However, in this case the woman was getting even on my nerves with her endless "He's too good for me" crap!
2) After the first 10 pages I knew exactly where at least half of the book was going (who had killed Tony, that their marriage wasn't as peachy as one had thought at first, who Peppa's father/grandfather was, ...)!
3) At approximatly half of the book the author "reveals" the things that were obvious after page 10 in a painstakingly detailed way.
Then you'd think that there was still enough time to turn things around, get some plot twists into the story but nooooo.
4) All characters are very flat. Absolutely no depth to them. Black and white (and both sides are overdrawn).
5) Even hard-core fantasy fans would have a hard time digesting the "supernatural twist" the author worked into this book because it's "explanation" simply makes absolutely no sense (and yes, even fantasy elements need to make sense on a certain level).
...
I could go on and on but the above mentioned points should be enough for everyone to get the idea. I was really sorry to see a story with such a sweet and good idea being turned into such a waste of time. :-(