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A review by lenoreo
Honesty by Seth King
Did not finish book.
http://celebrityreaders.com/2018/06/08/honesty-by-seth-king/
DNF @ 7% — OK, I’ll be honest. That 7% makes me feel really guilty. This one had some great highlight-worthy lines, but I also fell asleep and had a hard time focusing on it…in the FIRST 7%. Not a great start. Sometimes there are books that aren’t style fits, and I found it hard to focus on Cole’s inner musings. I also already noticed repetitiveness. So then I glanced at some other lower reviews of the book (which there aren’t many, so take my review with a HUGE grain of salt…like a salt lick), and they mentioned the repetitiveness and slowness as well, so I knew it was unlikely to get better as the book went on. I was also a bit wary of the type of story this was going to be, and while LOTS of people love stories with drama and angst and complications, I’m hit or miss with it. And just from reading the lower reviews, I have a strong suspicion I would be in the lower rating category, so I figured I would save myself time… Maybe I’ll try again some day, but likely not.
As with so many of my DNFs, this is just a reader/author mismatch. I can be super picky sometimes, and after having just given another angsty read a longer try and still DNFing, I’m jumping the gun early this time. I just have too much to read in a short span of time. *shrugs* Bummer too, b/c this was one of the reads I was counting on for my diversity challenge. 🙁
DNF @ 7% — OK, I’ll be honest. That 7% makes me feel really guilty. This one had some great highlight-worthy lines, but I also fell asleep and had a hard time focusing on it…in the FIRST 7%. Not a great start. Sometimes there are books that aren’t style fits, and I found it hard to focus on Cole’s inner musings. I also already noticed repetitiveness. So then I glanced at some other lower reviews of the book (which there aren’t many, so take my review with a HUGE grain of salt…like a salt lick), and they mentioned the repetitiveness and slowness as well, so I knew it was unlikely to get better as the book went on. I was also a bit wary of the type of story this was going to be, and while LOTS of people love stories with drama and angst and complications, I’m hit or miss with it. And just from reading the lower reviews, I have a strong suspicion I would be in the lower rating category, so I figured I would save myself time… Maybe I’ll try again some day, but likely not.
As with so many of my DNFs, this is just a reader/author mismatch. I can be super picky sometimes, and after having just given another angsty read a longer try and still DNFing, I’m jumping the gun early this time. I just have too much to read in a short span of time. *shrugs* Bummer too, b/c this was one of the reads I was counting on for my diversity challenge. 🙁