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Cowboys 4 Me
Elena has spent the last six months on the run, finally had enough she gives herself two choices. A bullet to the head or and advertisement. Deciding on the latter she decides to give a cowboy a wife, however not everything is at it appears. First off the advertisement was wacky and secondly she shows up and is greeted by four handsome men.As she goes on an epic emotional, mental journey she needs to figure out will she stay with them or will she go? Along her journey she needs to figure out if she will face her fears or be on the run forever.Will she give these four handsome men a chance? Will she put a bullet in her head? or will she just try to out run her past for the rest of her life. then again the past does catch up to you one way or another.
245 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 17, 2020
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February 2, 2021
I saw this book recommended a few times in a FB group, so decided to give it a go. It was exactly the trope I was looking for: a h running from an abusive ex, a bunch of guys ready to protect her.
How I think the few recommendations were maybe a self-rec.
I have all respect for the author, to be brave enough to write a book and put it out there for everyone to read and have an opinion of. I really wanted to like it, even after the first few pages and the glaringly obvious lack of punctuation. I though for a while that I can get past it, but I can't. You know why? Because I think our brains expect the punctuation and we get confused when it is missing. Punctuation helps the flow, tells us when a meaningful segment stops, when the next one starts, when to pause, when to pay attention. With the state of this work, it took me triple the time to get to the 40% where I finally gave up. I just had to go back and read every second sentence twice to actually get it right. It was tedious.
I don't want to offend the author, there could be multiple reasons for this: not a native speaker. I'm not, I speak/write in 3 languages with fairly different grammar and punctuation rules. At this point, I don't think I do it properly in any of them. Maybe the author didn't have someone to edit, proof read. My sincere wish would be for the author to gather as much feedback, pull the book and edit. I would most definitely want to read the improved version.
Here some more feedback that would be definitely addressed by some careful proofread/editing
- quotation marks, where there wasn't dialog and vice versa
- e. g. "So far" and "thus far" used in the same sentence
- wrong word were used...looked like the result of an autocorrect
In terms of writing style:
- could be less telling, more showing
- invest more time to show the emotion of the characters: when the abusive husband was describing what he did to the h...it was just that: a description. Why was he treating her that way? Why her? Who was he? How did the debt star? It just wasn't enough to tell that he was mad...why? How did it manifest? Make me feel his rage and then make me feel her pain when each of them tells their story.
- I felt that sometimes, the story was only scratching the surface and moments were rushed. Like, when the h decided she needs to know the guys on a deeper level and goes on to ask them about their favourite colour and food.
Despite the low rating, just want to highlight, all my respect goes to Krissie Phillips, I would definitely read your work again.
How I think the few recommendations were maybe a self-rec.
I have all respect for the author, to be brave enough to write a book and put it out there for everyone to read and have an opinion of. I really wanted to like it, even after the first few pages and the glaringly obvious lack of punctuation. I though for a while that I can get past it, but I can't. You know why? Because I think our brains expect the punctuation and we get confused when it is missing. Punctuation helps the flow, tells us when a meaningful segment stops, when the next one starts, when to pause, when to pay attention. With the state of this work, it took me triple the time to get to the 40% where I finally gave up. I just had to go back and read every second sentence twice to actually get it right. It was tedious.
I don't want to offend the author, there could be multiple reasons for this: not a native speaker. I'm not, I speak/write in 3 languages with fairly different grammar and punctuation rules. At this point, I don't think I do it properly in any of them. Maybe the author didn't have someone to edit, proof read. My sincere wish would be for the author to gather as much feedback, pull the book and edit. I would most definitely want to read the improved version.
Here some more feedback that would be definitely addressed by some careful proofread/editing
- quotation marks, where there wasn't dialog and vice versa
- e. g. "So far" and "thus far" used in the same sentence
- wrong word were used...looked like the result of an autocorrect
In terms of writing style:
- could be less telling, more showing
- invest more time to show the emotion of the characters: when the abusive husband was describing what he did to the h...it was just that: a description. Why was he treating her that way? Why her? Who was he? How did the debt star? It just wasn't enough to tell that he was mad...why? How did it manifest? Make me feel his rage and then make me feel her pain when each of them tells their story.
- I felt that sometimes, the story was only scratching the surface and moments were rushed. Like, when the h decided she needs to know the guys on a deeper level and goes on to ask them about their favourite colour and food.
Despite the low rating, just want to highlight, all my respect goes to Krissie Phillips, I would definitely read your work again.
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