Anton Strout's "Dead To Me", #11

[katikat]

The first half of this book is awesome: funny, quirky, interesting. But the second half... It feels like it's written by someone else. The author suddenly uses phrases like "I threw up in my mouth a little" or "we exchanged a WTF look." I mean, huh. I really liked Simon, Connor, the Inspectre and Irene, even Wesker was funny with his acerbic sense of humor. But Jane... If there's a poster girl for a stereotypical blondie, it's her: gorgeous and cute but with empty space where her brain should be. It literally echoes in her head. And once she's introduced, the book goes downhill from there, turning the story from funny to silly to absurd. Too bad, the book had a great potential

Comments

[dragonsinger.livejournal.com]

Oh, dear. That does not bode well for the future of me reading it.

[katikat.livejournal.com]

The book was so good at the beginning but suddenly, it became so juvenile! It really felt like someone took over and finished it for the author. Weird.