Premise: Fat girl misfit finds her true love with a blind werewolf and his gang of misfits.
Pacing: Set over the course of less than a week. The girl is in love by like day 2. Much too fast, even for a novella.
Plotline: Novellas usually have less to work with, due to their length. This was so short it left a lot of unresolved story lines, and not in a pleasant way.
Writing Style: So, so overdramatic. The main character, Julia, is a total drama queen, and her little tantrums and fits made reading it a chore. The author is trying to hammer it in over and over that Julia doesn't fit in, much to the detriment of the story.
Best [and Worst!] Quotes: "Stupid boys," she said. "Don't know anything. They're mean anyway." Jesus christ, is she 8 years old? Characters:
Julia is a typical whiny fat girl (and I say this as a fat girl myself).
She moans and bitches about how people are mean to her because of her weight. Her job sucks, her house is getting foreclosed on, and she's ugly. Not much is going on for her, and it doesn't make her relatable at all. The main man, Damien, is so in love with everything about her by day 2, even though she has no redeeming characteristics. He must be brain dead, even though he's the more interesting of the two. His character is developed unsteadily, with random bits and chunks thrown in. The sex scene was actually fairly amusing, considering it got real BDSM real fast. Their first time having sex, and he's choking her and telling her to beg him. That came out of left field for me, as it hadn't been hinted at before. All in all, shoddy work. The characters sucked and the plotline sucked too.
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