First off let’s discuss this title. It’s too long. It wouldn’t be that bad, although still lengthy, if “... Pitiful I Know” was taken off. Really I feel like some of the words in the title are unnecessary. You can easily make this title short by only removing words. For example, “Sold to the Devil”. That’s not long and I didn’t add words. Long titles, just irritate me especially if I tell someone what I’m reading.
Then, let’s get to the real source of my irritation over this book. The main character, Lexi. First of all, I hate when I have similar names to characters when I don’t like that character. A lot of my family call me Lexi, and I hate this girl’s character. She’s bitchy, petty, rude, needs to grow the fuck up, and has the mentality and maturity of a five year old. Seriously anyone who acts like her in real life just shouldn’t leave their house ever. People like her are why our world the way it is.
Next, let’s move on to the way she acts in the beginning of the novel to meet her mom. Yes, her mom walked on her, but I don’t think that Lexi should have gone to extreme to dress up like a “slut”. That’s another thing that bothers me, I hate when people use the term slut or slutty. It’s petty to dress up this way just to prove to your mom that you’re younger and more beautiful than her. I don’t even understand why she agreed to meet up with her mom if she was even going to act this way. By the end of the novel, I still didn’t notice much of a difference in her. Her internal monologue was boring and unnecessary most of the time.
I actually thought the book on a whole was kind of boring for the most part. I felt like it dragged on too much. I had less of a romance hope for this book because it is classified as teen fiction. The entire book is pretty much based on Lexi and Blake falling in love with snippets of Tyler and Vanessa. I personally would have classified it as romance with a tag of teen fiction. I also didn’t feel like there was much of a subplot that directed it away from the falling in love. That was the main thing in the entire book. That’s why I think it should be classified as romance and not teen fiction. I feel like if it was more teen fiction there would have been the majority focused on something other than romance. Maybe I didn’t enjoy this book as much because I have such a dislike over romantic books and things.
Then, there’s the fact of that Lexi and Blake don’t kiss until around the sixtieth chapter. That’s so drawn out and such a slow pace. Don’t get me wrong I like when a book takes their time, but sixty chapters is too long. Let’s move the story along.
I’m not going into this part so much because it irritates me to no end. Yope. What is that? Is that a ‘yep’ or a ‘nope’? Because honestly the way it’s used it points toward a ‘yep’ but it’s spelled closer to a ‘nope’. I can’t stand. It’s used so much in the story. It’s not even like just one character uses it. It’s all of them. They never ‘yes’, ‘no’, ‘yep’, and ‘nope’. They only say ‘yope’. I’ve never heard anyone use that in a normal conversation in real life. I’ve only ever heard it in this story. If anyone used that in a real conversation with me I would slap them. Stop. ‘Yope’ isn’t a real answer.
My final complaint about the book, isn’t about the book itself, it’s the author’s notes. I love author’s notes because it’s kind of a way to interact with the author and for the author to interact with their audience. But almost every author’s note was just the author complaining that they’re tired so it might not be good. I just wanted to comment, then just wait until you get sleep and then look over the chapter and post it. The readers can wait another day or so. It just sounded like an excuse and I hate excuses. The one that really got me was that the author said they were tired and that their writing may be suffering because of it but they still posted. If you don’t feel like your writing is up to par just because you’re tired, then wait to post it. The world won’t end because there wasn’t an update.