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Dorothy Devine

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I wish we could give zero stars...(I know I can just not mark any stars, but then my vote won't be counted if someone else rated it higher...)

I don't often say this about a book (and I apply the term loosely here), but this was a total waste of time.

Badly translated (I sincerly hope the authors mother tongue is not English), weirdly constructed sentences. It was just a pain to read really, and I persevered just to save everyone else the 12 minutes it takes to read this.
Furthermore, it's an incomplete story, and not in an 'open-ending' kind of way, it just suddenly cuts of.
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HeyMimi | Jan 1, 2021 |
Simplistic and in desperate need of a rewrite. Flat, irrational characters.
Too many repetitive sentence (ex. "She was the kind of old school person who always liked to do things old school." (and this was not meant as an emphasis), and "it seems as though" was used a gazillion times, as well as "and just like that".
Also, the author does not seem to grasp the meaning of the phrase 'to kick back' and uses it in awkward places. Actually, she uses several idioms in weird places....
Oh, and some missing letters (not an English/American issue, but 's' instead of 'as', etc) and capitals.… (meer)
 
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