I know I am slow to jump on this bandwagon, but now that I have hopped on, I am looking for a way to hop back off! I'm very glad I did not pay money for this book, one of my dear friends (who bought just this one book, but did not continue to read the rest of the series) sent this to me in the mail. I might've smacked myself in the head had I supported this "author." Why I think this book is horrible: 1)my background being I was an English Lit. Major at UW. 2)Not only is the writing very basic, elementary, horrid, atrocious, but 3)This Brit doesn't know what the F she's talking about! (Imagine I said not F, but the actual word, bc that is how offended I am.) What I mean by they don't know what they are talking about: 1)the dialect. There are so many blatantly British phrases in here, that the writing seems either old fashioned or just plain weird. "I think I will have a shower." Having grown up in the Northwest (and near the setting of the book) no one says that here. We say "Take a shower." or "She was quite fond of Jose." (isn't that just drippppping with Britishness? You just want to say it in a British accent!) Furthermore, the actual places she has picked are real, but then the street names are totally bogus not to mention zip codes, in other books this might be okay, but since the writing is already so unbelievable, I think this author is just being lazy about research. You are realllllllllllllllly stretching it lady. REALLLLY. (oh and besides the obvious of a 20 something year old bazillionaire NOT named MARK, that dates a chick from WSU VANCOUVER? Really? Why not at least WSU Pullman? That is far more believable. Why didn't the author mention that the main character's roommate partied waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too hard in all the private schools she attended to go to WSU Vancouver? (I'm not saying this to dis WSU, I would say the exact same thing about UW Bothel or Tacoma!) Like, really?
Long story short: If you haven't jumped on the bandwagon, don't bother. The only reason why I did was because I recently found myself sitting around a campfire with a bunch of ladies who had read the book (and were making fun of the books), and I had no idea what they were talking about and found that I was the only one to not have read the books. Now I think all the girl's who loved the books are deprived of internet porn and more tragically: good books. What has this world come to?
The book I read just prior to starting the atrocity I already reviewed (above). Going from reading this to Grey- was like drinking a glass of fine wine and then taking a sip of vinegar. This book, is one of her more "harder" books, I would say it is closer to Poisonwood Bible, than anything else she has written (but The Poisonwood Bible was MUCH darker than this book). My favorite hers still being "Animal Dreams." But true to Kingsolver's style of writing, the visual descriptions in the books will bring you to your knees. Absolutely breathtaking imagery. She is a wizard, and knows it! What else is there to say?
