Michelle

I received a free advanced copy of the ebook Michelle to review.

This book was yet another case of a book that just couldn't catch my attention. The chapters were long, flowery and lyrical in prose but lacking in substance. This book reminds me of those "Mary Sue" litmus tests that used to be all over the internet for fan fiction writers. You know the ones, they were meant to help novice writers not make their characters into Mary Sues or overly perfect characters. I remember the mention from those lists, and also from creative writing classes in college, that the use of overly poetic flowery writing is usually a way to mask poor narrative ability. And that seems like the case in this book. I just couldn't get interested in this book. There was a lot of flowy prose, but I just didn't feel any substance, no connection to the characters. At no point did I care about what would happen to the characters or what had happened to them. I just wanted to put the book down and look for something better to read.