23 of 26 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
I Sure Didn't Read It For The Ingenious Writing., January 28, 2010
This review is from: Kiss & Hell (Mass Market Paperback)
I don't know what made me pick up this book in the first place--no, I lie. It was reading the phrase "sinfully hot-in a college professor sort of way" that hooked me. I have weaknesses, I am human; professors and other smart guys are my junk food of choice. I digress.
Anyway, the whole time I was reading this book, I was gritting my teeth and resisting the urge to throw it across the store. I went home without buying it, and... and I checked it out at the library. No... that's not completely true. I requested that my library purchase it, and a few days later I picked it up. Every few chapters I had to throw it down in disgust and take a walk, but I always came back. Why? Because of that hot piece of ass that was the main love-interest. I'll give Dakota Cassidy this much: she knows how to write up one Hell of a man. Oh God, did I ever love Clyde Atwell, and it sucks that the real world is not populated with men like him.
ANYWAY, enough about that. The narration was crap. She used to many cutesy slang words and phrases in a very hamfisted attempt to be hip and edgy. If I never see the phrase "ba-donkadonk" in a book again, it will be too soon. The token gal-pal was a little too cliche for my tastes, and the main character's relationship with her wonderful, tough-but-sensitive brother was just yea shy of incestuous. I'm sure Miss Cassidy didn't intend it to be that way, but... well, she should have been much more careful.
In short: I came for the Clyde Atwell and stayed for the Clyde Atwell. There was nothing else to redeem this pile of wood-pulp that they call a book, and I was deeply ashamed the whole time I was reading it. That I am now admitting to having read it is a huge step for me.
I give it two stars, and by that I mean that I give Clyde Atwell five stars, but three of them must be revoked because of all the other crap in the book. I recommend this to no one, except maybe as a step up out of the cesspit that is Twilight--by all means, read this if you're trying to work your way up into some better books, but please move on to better things when you're done!
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9 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Really didn't like this, July 24, 2009
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I have enjoyed a few of the author's other books - Accidentally Dead, The Accidental Werewolf. I didn't like The Accidental Human as much - it seemed a stretch even for a paranormal fantasy, but this book really was very hard to get through. It never grabbed me, and I never ended up caring for any of the characters all that much. I'm sad I didn't hold out til I saw this in a bookstore so I could have read the first chapter and found it wasn't for me.
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6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Couldn't KEEP from putting it down., September 27, 2009
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Why?
The narrative is a rambling first-person stream-of-consciousness. The main character is bizarrely scatter-brained from page one. There's too much cutesy slang, and she's constantly talking to the audience. She has 6 dogs, and every one of them is named "Dog", because she's too stupid or lazy to think of real names. But she, apparently, thinks this is just her own special genius.
If she accomplishes anything, it will be DESPITE her very worst efforts.
It's too exhausting to keep reading and find out.
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