The Quick Cut: A girl gets fed up with the social norm and starts a blog to fight the sexist standard in her small Alaskan town. The attention she receives causes chaos a plenty.
A Real Review:
Thank you to Black Rose Writing for providing the ARC in exchange for an honest review.
Society is filled with awareness nowadays of the behaviors and actions we take every day. Whether it be racism or some other form of discrimination, today's culture is filled with outrage abput bad behavior. This book's description says it's about female enpowerment and expecting better from guys, but is that the real message? Let's take a look.
Crystal Rose and her brother JD have not had it easy in their lives. Being raised by their grandparents, their mom died years ago after spending her life abandoning them for drugs and alcohol (along with naming her kids after them). It all seems tragic enough until Eugene gets out of jail and insists on seeing the kids. It starts a chain of events that cause things to go seriously awry.
From the outside, this seemed like a book I would enjoy about the tragic effects of drugs and alcohol on society, especially for women. Instead this turned into a book filled with way too many plots without any real resolutions and me at the end wondering what the point was. We really didn't end up anywhere and no progress was made. Truthfully, I didn't really even like the characters very much because they either weren't developed enough to get to know or they were inconsistent.
With too much plot and not enough character development, this is a book to skip for something that creates some progress.
My rating: 1 out of 5