Top Ten Tuesday: Ten Books I Almost Put Down But Didn't

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Ten Books I Almost Put Down But Didn't

While this is a well-written book, it was totally disturbing. It is about a toxic friendship between two young women who are searching for who murdered a friend. In my review I described it as Dawson's Creek meets Silence of the Lambs. 

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I had a tough time with this one, even though I ended up enjoying it. Set during WWII, it captures the delicate and sometimes sinister intricacies of little town USA. I really struggled with this one because I couldn't find a single character I liked.

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This is the story of long-lost lovers reuniting and how they are impacted by one man's quest for revenge. I had no idea what the point of the story was for the first 200 pages, and many times the same information was repeated by different characters, which added to the length of the book. Once the villain jacked up the stakes it became more interesting.

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While overall this is an enjoyable book, the storytelling mechanics left something to be desired.

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Though the main character is a P.I. searching for a missing college student, he spends more time discovering Mexico than pursuing leads. I would also have liked a deeper point of view.

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Though this one starts off strong, it quickly becomes a story plagued by too many extraneous details, quickly--and easily--resolved conflicts, and characters that remain undeveloped.

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This was a book I received unsolicited while on vacation one year. Though the author's blog that this book was based upon in 2009 was very popular at the time, the swearing and vulgarity did nothing for me.

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I had some big issues with this book. It's tough to swallow the author's idea that the majority of us feel obligated to purchase a home because we have been brainwashed by the real estate industry, lenders, the government, and the media into purchasing a home at any and all cost. The flow of money example is also based on an exaggeration depicting a greedy lender and equally greedy real estate agent conning a fictitious family into buying a home they can't afford.

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The author's message on self-esteem was lost in this story of an alien girl who borrows her father’s spaceship to come to earth for the Miss Universe Pageant.

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I honestly couldn't tell by the end of the story what the point was. The main character and her family endure unspeakable tragedies, but I never really knew why. The pacing was also off, which didn't help.