Drop Dead Gorgeous by Jennifer Skully

[jmc_bks]

Jay warned me that it would be bad, bad, bad. And it was. Despite the warning, I tried reading the book on the train ride home. I was feeling righteous as I opened to the first page -- I did not go to the bookstore and buy a new book; I was thrifty and stuck with the library book in my bag. In retrospect, anything I could've bought at the bookstore would've been better than Drop Dead Gorgeous. It gets a D from me. The heroine was TSTL, literally. She was sure she was going to die before her 28th birthday because her father had...and I was hoping that she would, too, by the end of the book. The secondary characters all needed major therapy. The stalker plot was hackneyed and predictable. I'm sorry I wasted the train ride on the book. Even sleeping gor staring off into space would've been better.

Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Wait, so did you actually read it? I think I got to the middle of chapter 3 which was maybe 5 pages further than Jane got. I wasn't sure if it really was bad or if it was bad on purpose but got better.

~Jay

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I read the first couple of chapters, skimmed about 100 pages more, then read the last couple of chapters. It never got better, in fact the one character that I sort of liked at the beginning (T. Larry) turned into a moron in the end. I'm not sure if the middle of the book was any good, but I have a hard time imagining that it was, given how bad the beginning and end were. The serial stalker/killer should have been allowed to kill Madison just to put me out of my misery.

I shouldn't be allowed to post when I'm tired. Not entirely coherent. Will now go correct grammar and spelling errors.