Inescapable (Premonition Series) Amy Bartol

[Mune]

It is very, very rare that I give up reading a book. Even more rare to actually write out a review that I know will be bad, but I was fooled by all of the high reviews, and even more baffled at them.

Three things made this story impossible for me. The first would be the flow. It was awful. Hi, nice to meet you, lets hold hands, now we are a couple, all within a few hours of meeting each other? I felt the relationship evolution was based on elementary children's idea of relationships. It was mind boggling. The entire flow was choppy. Too fast and then dragging forever and then way too fast again. Secondly, the dialogue was absolutely horrifying. If the author is indeed a college student, I really hope she is taking some extra literature classes. I am from the south, now live in Georgia, and I have friends from Asheville, NC. No one that I know, even any of my very backwoods, redneck, old timey family, speaks as horribly as the character Russel. The author is unable to write in dialect and his dialogue was so bad that I had to either skip it or at most skim it. I almost stopped reading earlier because of how annoying and frustrating it was to read his dailogue. On top of his every word, and another character saying "sweetie" five hundred times, she uses every slang word she can think of since the 90s and forces it into conversation. Even worse, she writes in slang and text talk! A high schooler could tolerate this, maybe. I almost screamed aloud. What is not spelled wut and people do not use words in reference to themselves or others like "playa" and "pimpin" one minute and then "stylin" and whatever else another. It really is every high school English teacher's nightmare student. Thirdly, and least annoyingly (as it was somewhat, and begrudgingly expected) the ridiculous love triangle. It was unnecessary, childish, and more annoying than productive. In all, I am mad I even spent $2 on this. I could have fared better helping pay this girl's tuition.

[lmoses]

I actually fell in LOVE with the Premonition series! The characters are memorable and I love the way the love triangle plays out between Russell, Evie, and Reed. I also felt Amy Bartol was able to create a world of angels and demons that felt real and allowed her to explore the universe through all five books. I do agree that the pacing sometimes feels off and the dialogue can be overdone at times for Russell and the Galcanagh clan, but the way the characters and plot are developed kept me wanting to know more.