Review by va2016 -- Wrong Turn, Right Guy by Haylie B. Fox
Posted: 11 Feb 2017, 23:21
[Following is a volunteer review of "Wrong Turn, Right Guy" by Haylie B. Fox.]
2 out of 4 stars
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This is a review of the book Wrong Turn, Right Guy – A Novel by Haylie B. Fox, a romance novel, which is available in Amazon.
Teresa, the protagonist of the story, plans to attend the wedding of a friend in Italy when an unexpected event occurs in her career. In spite of the trying circumstances, she carries on with her plan and reaches Italy with her mother. After a romance, a betrayal, some love affair and going through culture shock and plenty of confusions, the Teresa character makes the readers expectantly look forward to what will happen to her love, relationship, and her career at the end.
Teresa's emotions and feelings are narrated overall in a nice way. The author is successful in bringing about in words Teresa’s indecisiveness and naivety in relationship issues, her frail and shallow thinking in the deeper aspects of life, her differences of opinion with her mother, etc.
Chapters that cover Teresa’s tour of Italy fall short of storytelling, and make the reader feel like (s)he is reading a travelogue. In fact, it brings about the question in the reader’s mind if the author has converted her Italy travel experience into this novel book, because there’s so much of raw narrative of places and attractions like how a tourist would describe them, rather than how a storyteller would narrate them. Also, the last chapter seems to be written in a hurry and ends like an essay rather than a good story ending. Though how Teresa feels at the end is mentioned, the narration turns out to be mechanical rather than how a human would feel those emotions.
Editing has done a poor job in correcting mechanical errors like wrong capitalizations, missing punctuations (quotes and full stops), and spelling mistakes (‘blubbering’ instead of ‘blabbering’ in chapter 16 – ‘The Surprise’, ‘old job’ instead of ‘odd job’ in chapter 18 – ‘Going Home’). The writing style is good overall. Formatting is just fine.
Overall it is an okay story for adolescents and adults as a time pass for a few hours. There is no vulgarity, violence or goriness, obscenity or content requiring parental guidance. But, the narration gives an amateur feeling. Chapters that cover Teresa’s Italy tour sound like a travel diary rather than being the parts of the story. Editing has missed out spotting and correcting several mechanical errors. I could have rated this book 3 out of 4 stars, but because of the above reasons, I rate this book 2 out of 4 stars.
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2 out of 4 stars
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This is a review of the book Wrong Turn, Right Guy – A Novel by Haylie B. Fox, a romance novel, which is available in Amazon.
Teresa, the protagonist of the story, plans to attend the wedding of a friend in Italy when an unexpected event occurs in her career. In spite of the trying circumstances, she carries on with her plan and reaches Italy with her mother. After a romance, a betrayal, some love affair and going through culture shock and plenty of confusions, the Teresa character makes the readers expectantly look forward to what will happen to her love, relationship, and her career at the end.
Teresa's emotions and feelings are narrated overall in a nice way. The author is successful in bringing about in words Teresa’s indecisiveness and naivety in relationship issues, her frail and shallow thinking in the deeper aspects of life, her differences of opinion with her mother, etc.
Chapters that cover Teresa’s tour of Italy fall short of storytelling, and make the reader feel like (s)he is reading a travelogue. In fact, it brings about the question in the reader’s mind if the author has converted her Italy travel experience into this novel book, because there’s so much of raw narrative of places and attractions like how a tourist would describe them, rather than how a storyteller would narrate them. Also, the last chapter seems to be written in a hurry and ends like an essay rather than a good story ending. Though how Teresa feels at the end is mentioned, the narration turns out to be mechanical rather than how a human would feel those emotions.
Editing has done a poor job in correcting mechanical errors like wrong capitalizations, missing punctuations (quotes and full stops), and spelling mistakes (‘blubbering’ instead of ‘blabbering’ in chapter 16 – ‘The Surprise’, ‘old job’ instead of ‘odd job’ in chapter 18 – ‘Going Home’). The writing style is good overall. Formatting is just fine.
Overall it is an okay story for adolescents and adults as a time pass for a few hours. There is no vulgarity, violence or goriness, obscenity or content requiring parental guidance. But, the narration gives an amateur feeling. Chapters that cover Teresa’s Italy tour sound like a travel diary rather than being the parts of the story. Editing has missed out spotting and correcting several mechanical errors. I could have rated this book 3 out of 4 stars, but because of the above reasons, I rate this book 2 out of 4 stars.
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