Showing posts with label -1 Star. Show all posts
Showing posts with label -1 Star. Show all posts

Thursday, 27 December 2012

#262 (#61 of 2012) - To Love a Scoundrel (Law & Disorder Series) ~ Sharon Ihle *NEW AUTHOR


Purchased on Kindle  - 311 pages - of absolute rot I should imagine - I only made it through the first two pages before I put it in the rubbish read section.  I gave it a 1 star rating on twitter, but thinking about it don't even think it rated that highly - minus rating all the way.  What galls me is that I actually got the book named muddled up with something else and gave that a poor rating, before I realised what I'd done.

Usually I don't condemn a book just off the bat like that, and try to give them at least a chapter of two before making up my mind ... impossible to do with this.

My main objection was that it was supposed to be historical with the start of Chapter 1 marked as "Spring 1876" then it goes on "Her favourite college professor once said ...." really that did it ......... 1896, a female and attended a college and apparently a private investigator .... I know it's based in America, but believable love if you are going to write in a time period, even given a certain amount of poetic/literary licence.  I am truly surprised that this kind of rubbish (this is book 4 for goodness sake).  The author is a best-seller?  .... there is no accounting for taste apparently.

Fortunately I had picked up my Kindle copy free - I would be so angry if I'd wasted money on it and decided I would award a very generous -1 star (minus) rating and place it on the rubbish read list I would be pleased to find out others views on this.

Tuesday, 7 February 2012

EPIC FAIL - The Scandal of the Season


ISBN or e-book:

978-0-701-18116-1

Publisher:

Chatto & Windus

Main Characters:

Alexander Pope (a poet)

Brief Outline of Plot and Rating:

A big fact Epic Fail from me - although my mother read it (struggling at first) and enjoyed it.  I've battled on for over a week, and decided that it merits the Epic Fail socre of -1.

The main character is one Alexander Pope (a poet), and whilst this is supposed to be a work of fiction I believe that it might be based on him .... forgive me author if that is not the case, but I'm unprepared to go on further to find out.  Not my style of content or actual writing style ... ponderous in the extreme and wholly unexciting.

Kay

Tuesday, 24 January 2012

EPIC FAIL - Symphoney ~ Jude Morgan


I's not going to count this one, as in my opinion it was an epic fail.  I did try, but only managed about two chapters before I threw in the towel.  In my humble opinion it was over-written and boring.  Therefore a -1 score from me.

Tuesday, 30 August 2011

Failed to complete - Wax Fruit ~ Guy McCrone

Wax Fruit: Antimacassar City, the Philistines, the Puritans

A -1 read, I only managed a few chapters ... don't let that stop you giving it a go though.

I can't put my finger on why I got no further - simply did not gel.