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Born at Midnight
by C.C. Hunter
Ok, I'm going to be honest. Right off the bat, I thought this book would suck.
It wasn't my fault, totally. In the begining, the writing style was amature at best, and the main character talked about her chest way too often. And there were a lot of mildly innapropriate references/antics. I thought it was garbage thrown out to appease the disturbed youth of america today. I almost closed the book and refused to keep reading.
But my sister read it first, shocker, and insisted the story was good. She has no grasp of good writing, but she can usually tell a decent story from a crummy one. So I kept reading.
And, as I read on, the writing style got better. It was obvious the author had tallent once she started to learn. The plot got signifigantly better abotu eighty pages in, as did the characters. Don't get me wrong, Kylie still talked about her chest way too much, but she reigned it in a little and proved to be a decent character.
(Minor spoiler)And I had to give the author props- At the begining, I thought Lucas was a major creep. I mean come on, everyone knows killing your neighbors pets is the first sign of being a serial killer. But she did such a good job at making his character subtly likeable that, even before he told her that he didn't kill the cat, I didn't care (and I'm an animal lover, so that's saying alot) He was just too adorable.
So, all considered, this book did a three sixty turn around for me. Since it got off to a crummy start, it only gets 4 stars, but I'm very much looking forward to the next book. Yay! I haven't read a truely spectacular first book in ages.
It wasn't my fault, totally. In the begining, the writing style was amature at best, and the main character talked about her chest way too often. And there were a lot of mildly innapropriate references/antics. I thought it was garbage thrown out to appease the disturbed youth of america today. I almost closed the book and refused to keep reading.
But my sister read it first, shocker, and insisted the story was good. She has no grasp of good writing, but she can usually tell a decent story from a crummy one. So I kept reading.
And, as I read on, the writing style got better. It was obvious the author had tallent once she started to learn. The plot got signifigantly better abotu eighty pages in, as did the characters. Don't get me wrong, Kylie still talked about her chest way too much, but she reigned it in a little and proved to be a decent character.
(Minor spoiler)And I had to give the author props- At the begining, I thought Lucas was a major creep. I mean come on, everyone knows killing your neighbors pets is the first sign of being a serial killer. But she did such a good job at making his character subtly likeable that, even before he told her that he didn't kill the cat, I didn't care (and I'm an animal lover, so that's saying alot) He was just too adorable.
So, all considered, this book did a three sixty turn around for me. Since it got off to a crummy start, it only gets 4 stars, but I'm very much looking forward to the next book. Yay! I haven't read a truely spectacular first book in ages.