Status Updates From Vernon House

I'm done. DNF. Writers, if you want to write contemporary gothic haunted house romance mystery, read this book and don't do anything it does. I didn't find any typos, so go ahead and put in a few, but do everything else the opposite. Dreadful. Just plain dreadful.

Any book that contains "quirk" as a verb, in any tense, automatically loses not one but two stars. (This book is well into negative territory anyway.)

I don't think I've ever in my life struggled to get through a 64-page novella the way I have through this. It's truly terrible. Nonsensical. Dare I say stupid? No, that's probably too harsh. But, renovating a 100-year-old Victorian house in a week? Only the floors and walls get done? And a major kitchen remodel w/o plumbing and electrical upgrades? SERIOUSLY? In a week? IDFTS.

This is dreadful. POV shifts galore, no transitions where they should be, reliance on bizarre coincidences. A skeptic who crosses herself. I feel as if I'm grading a very poorly written middle school paper; nearly every line needs improvement.

Purchased Kindle edition. So very much wrong with this from the very beginning: One does not buy old houses and fix them up to flip for profit as a hobby.

Finished. Very good.

I'm not so sure about this one....