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A review by miras_booverse
My One & Goalie by Kara Kendrick
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
1.0
Unfortunately, along with the good books, there is no way there will be none that not only missed my expectations, but smashed them to smithereens, and "My One & Goalie" by Kara Kendrick is just like that.
The story has a lot of things that I love, collected in one book and it was exactly the thing that I really wanted to read when I started it. However, my enthusiasm was quickly extinguished after I went through the first ten pages, because I understood what I was actually going to deal with.
In "My One & Goalie" we have a lot of ingredients that would otherwise bring the story a great success in my eyes, but in reality they are not in the right quantities at all, which creates something that is very far away from good.
The writing style is quite shallow and lean in terms of any expressive techniques and means. And this is noticeable in the first 3 pages, which led me to think that the author can do so much and is unlikely to improve there. I didn't think I'd say it, but a Hallmark movie has more meaning and depth than this book.
Even though the book is a very short novella, things still happen too quickly, which made them look so forced, even ridiculous, all the time.
The actions follow some points that you need to go through in order to get a romantic story. And it doesn’t matter at all to the author that its not their time to happen when they happen and that this totally interferes with getting to know the characters and makes them extremely superficial. The situation is just tragically bad.
I also think it's time for someone to tell the author that by repeating what a "bad boy" the main character is, but he actually behaves like a complete angel, it doesn't magically turn him into a bad boy. It just makes the characters' thoughts and dialogues sound even more ridiculous and stupid.
In summary - there is a good idea and if the performance was at least half as good, it would have turned out to be a somewhat decent book, but alas. We are left alone with this one.
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Rating: 1/5
~~~This book was provided to me by Valentine PR for my honest opinion.~~~
The story has a lot of things that I love, collected in one book and it was exactly the thing that I really wanted to read when I started it. However, my enthusiasm was quickly extinguished after I went through the first ten pages, because I understood what I was actually going to deal with.
In "My One & Goalie" we have a lot of ingredients that would otherwise bring the story a great success in my eyes, but in reality they are not in the right quantities at all, which creates something that is very far away from good.
The writing style is quite shallow and lean in terms of any expressive techniques and means. And this is noticeable in the first 3 pages, which led me to think that the author can do so much and is unlikely to improve there. I didn't think I'd say it, but a Hallmark movie has more meaning and depth than this book.
Even though the book is a very short novella, things still happen too quickly, which made them look so forced, even ridiculous, all the time.
The actions follow some points that you need to go through in order to get a romantic story. And it doesn’t matter at all to the author that its not their time to happen when they happen and that this totally interferes with getting to know the characters and makes them extremely superficial. The situation is just tragically bad.
I also think it's time for someone to tell the author that by repeating what a "bad boy" the main character is, but he actually behaves like a complete angel, it doesn't magically turn him into a bad boy. It just makes the characters' thoughts and dialogues sound even more ridiculous and stupid.
In summary - there is a good idea and if the performance was at least half as good, it would have turned out to be a somewhat decent book, but alas. We are left alone with this one.
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Rating: 1/5
~~~This book was provided to me by Valentine PR for my honest opinion.~~~