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Love & Other Disasters
by Terri Jones
This book started out so well. It was funny, sweet, and swoony! Then at 60% it kind of fell apart for me. It started crawling along as slowly as possible.
There were entire chapters dedicated to the female lead's therapy and family relationships. I really like it when therapy is mentioned in books, but the sheer length of this part of the book was a detriment to the pace of the book. There was an entire chapter dedicated to her reinventing herself by getting highlights in her hair. Again...WHY?
The final 40% of the book could have easily been cut down by 50 pages and I would have potentially given this book 5 stars. I love supporting self-published authors, but this book needed an Editor badly. Someone to say, "Can you communicate that she is using this time on her own to improve herself in 1-2 scenes instead of 4-5 chapters?"
TRIGGERS: Alzheimers, childhood parent abandonment, familial gas lighting, embezzlement
I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
There were entire chapters dedicated to the female lead's therapy and family relationships. I really like it when therapy is mentioned in books, but the sheer length of this part of the book was a detriment to the pace of the book. There was an entire chapter dedicated to her reinventing herself by getting highlights in her hair. Again...WHY?
The final 40% of the book could have easily been cut down by 50 pages and I would have potentially given this book 5 stars. I love supporting self-published authors, but this book needed an Editor badly. Someone to say, "Can you communicate that she is using this time on her own to improve herself in 1-2 scenes instead of 4-5 chapters?"
TRIGGERS: Alzheimers, childhood parent abandonment, familial gas lighting, embezzlement
I received an advanced copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.