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Oh
dear GOD. I have tutored ESL middle-schoolers with a better grasp of
grammar, syntax, and basic sentence structure that this woman has. There
were errors on EVERY page. Often there were multiple errors. I am not
being hyperbolic for dramatic intent--I could not find a single page in
which the writing was correct.
For example, on one page, she
refers to an eatery as a "brassiere". Twice. Really? Your characters
will be dining in lingerie? It's called a "brasserie", you uneducated
dimwit. On that same page, she describes the male character as "taking
the reigns". Also twice. Erm, so I guess he is taking over the throne of
England? Better inform the King.
She also misuses vocabulary,
often laughably. Early in the book--page 17--she tells us that the male
character is "reticent" about buying an expensive flat. She later
describes how he absolutely does not want to spend the money. He sure as
hell isn't reticent, then. Seems fairly communicative to me. Buy a
dictionary, Ms. Kingsley.
This should have been a clue; but
because I refuse to let my Goodreads friends subject themselves to this
horror, I persevered. Oh, and later in the book, she forgets a
character's name TWO LINES later. Criminy. That is the fastest name
change in the history of time.
I hope by all of the gods of
literature that this abysmal mess was self-published. If not, the
editors need to look elsewhere for employment because they are horrific
at this position. Other folks described the book as funny--honestly, the
only humor I could discern was how laughably bad it was.
Ms.
Kingsley may be a lovely person; but I beg of you, Ms. Kingsley, by the
swirling-rapidly-in-his-grave ghost of Shakespeare, please don't foist
another book on the public.
P.S. On a side note, the author
describes herself as a "Yummy Mummy". She may be hotter than a ghost
chili, but cripes. Way to pat yourself on the back. Granted, that little
blurb has nothing to do with this crapfest of a book but it annoyed the
bejeezus out of me.
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