jayvall reviewed Drowned Under by Wendall Thomas
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I hate this woman's writing style. I realized that while reading her first book but I was willing to give it a second chance because I thought my issues were just debut author issues. But my issues remain in this book. I think the author is so in love with her characters in her head that she doesn't really have interest (or maybe the wherewithal) to make sure that her readers can follow along. So many things in this book don't make sense. I'm not interested in cataloguing all of the confusing things but the thing that made me put the book down is when Cyd thinks to herself "thank god I got the new Blackberry Pearl 8100". What? There's been nothing to suggest this book is set in 2006, which is when that phone came out - i know because i looked it up - and I guess it …
I hate this woman's writing style. I realized that while reading her first book but I was willing to give it a second chance because I thought my issues were just debut author issues. But my issues remain in this book. I think the author is so in love with her characters in her head that she doesn't really have interest (or maybe the wherewithal) to make sure that her readers can follow along. So many things in this book don't make sense. I'm not interested in cataloguing all of the confusing things but the thing that made me put the book down is when Cyd thinks to herself "thank god I got the new Blackberry Pearl 8100". What? There's been nothing to suggest this book is set in 2006, which is when that phone came out - i know because i looked it up - and I guess it could be an inside joke for the author that Cyd is using a 14 year old phone but that's not super clear from the text. I just don't want to work that hard for a book that's supposed to be fun and other reviewers have commented that the mystery is bonkers as well. Pass.