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I like the Girls cirumstances but Ive Always found teacher student relationships creepy.
 
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Litrvixen | 3 andre anmeldelser | Jun 23, 2022 |
No stars. Horrendous, so badly written and if I was Sarah Waters, I'd be ringing a solicitor. This was another book for research and to hone my editing skills. So far this book needs a lot of editing skills! The style seems forced and does not read smoothly at all. Dialogue is stilted. There are large chunks of information dumped on the page to fill in the back story of the characters and I've only read 14 pages so far. This book is teetering towards my abandoned shelf but I'm forcing my way through in order to learn more about what NOT to do!

Update: I've figured out one of the main things wrong with this text. The author is trying to write with 19th century expression, but it is way off. It feels as if they have grabbed a few words such as UPON instead of on, FOR instead of because, SHALL instead of will, MAYHAP instead of maybe and then flooded the otherwise modern text in the hope that it sounds olde worlde. It doesn't, it sounds stupid and trite. Only problem, if you are going to write expressively in an older style, your entire text needs to reflect this, not just a few choice words. There is also a healthy splattering of typos which really distracts and looks unprofessional. I don't think this book has seen a spellcheck let alone an editor or even a friend of the author to give it a read before someone hit the 'publish' button. It is clear that the author needs to do a lot more research into the time period. Not sure how they figured you'd need a sovereign (20 shillings or 1 pound) to pay for a glass of mead in the 1800s, that would be like paying £400 for pint in the pub today, and I'm not sure what the two silver pieces someone was using to pay for drugs was supposed to be.

Update: As I have continued this book i have become increasingly convinced that the author is trying to emulate Sarah Waters and doing a terrible job. Then when I got to page 83 I spotted "me, she thought amusingly, in love with another woman," and alarm bells went off. Then on page 90 and read, "You are a man, Mr Searson, and may do as you please. I am a woman and may do as I am told." That's not like Sarah Waters, that just about IS Sarah Waters, aside from the name, pretty much straight out of Fingersmith! Now I am disgusted, not only is this book badly written with poor editing, and terrible research into the time period, the author could not even think up their own sentences and resorted to plagiarism.
… (mere)
 
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KatiaMDavis | 1 anden anmeldelse | Dec 19, 2017 |
Well I have never read a book quite like this one. Alpha Girl is about Rose and her 'illness'. Once a month she has 'her time of the month', as her mother likes to call it. Every month at the full moon Rose becomes a werewolf.

Rose meets her new teacher Mr. Stone who she has an attraction to. The attraction is mutual. The reason for the attraction is because of their affliction. I have never read a book like this before. I did enjoy it even though it is considered taboo for a student teacher relationship.… (mere)
 
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crazy4reading | 3 andre anmeldelser | Apr 4, 2015 |
Reviewed by: Rabid Reads.

Kate Bloomfield’s werewolves were an unexpected favourite of mine last year, and I was really hoping that this sequel would prove to be just as shockingly wonderful as ALPHA GIRL. Rose now finds herself on the run with Tom, a man who’s not only twice her age, but also a convicted sex offender, and a recent jail escapee. The first couple of chapters were a rush with police chases, car theft, shoot-outs, and helped to further reinforce the taboo-ness of the protagonists’ love story. The plot could have gone in so many directions after that what with Stone having possibly turned a prison guard, and the rumours surrounding an Alaskan pack. Instead, the author decided to split the duo up because of a rookie mistake that any eighteen year old with a smartphone should be aware of, and then a government conspiracy thread surfaced which has become so predictable in this genre that it’s practically a cliché.

Rose and Tom’s student / teacher relationship was disturbingly irresistible in book 1, and readers had to come to terms with its many prohibited facets; however in LONE GIRL Bloomfield pushed things too far in my opinion. I’ve reluctantly accepted the age difference and weird power dynamics, but in this installment Stone mentioned that they have yet to use a condom. I realize that this series isn’t intended for younger audiences, and that the author enjoys pushing all kinds of no-no buttons, but why go there? I was ok with all-of-the-above, yet the blatant disregard of practicing safe sex, especially given the circumstances, was just plain irresponsible and unnecessary. Not to mention both of the characters’ blasé attitude towards teenage pregnancy. It certainly didn’t add anything to the story, and only succeeded in pissing me off.

The cops uncover their whereabouts because Rose ignores Tom’s warning about the authorities being able to track them via her phone, and after the whole condom thing, this pushed the heroine into too stupid to live territory. I understand that’s she young and naive, but what teenager doesn’t know this? Then Stone gets pissed at Goldman for being a kid—newsflash she IS a kid—and then abandons her on the side of the road. Now we have not one, but two TSTL characters. Crappy parental figures is a personal hang-up of mine in the Young / New Adult genres, and Rose’s mom and dad were real winners in book 1, and continued to impress in 2. The poor girl gets into a car crash while hitchhiking home after her lover ditches her, ends up in a coma for sixteen days, and her mother refuses to take her back. So, Goldman moves to California with her father, things go horribly awry during the full moon; her dad buys a one-way plane ticket to Alaska, and wishes her good luck finding the pack. Wow.

I have yet to say anything positive about this novel, and you’re probably wondering why I gave it 2.5 stars. Well, it wasn’t all bad, we learn some interesting things about this universe’s werewolves including that they don’t all share the same abilities, and that heightened senses aren’t necessarily a guarantee. Also, born wolves can’t change others, and only 2% of those bitten actually survive their first shift. So yeah, the mythology’s original, the plot had no major holes, and the writing/editing was good. You’ve most likely already guessed at what awaited Rose in Alaska because as I mentioned, the government angle was foreseeable to a fault. There was however, a couple of curve balls thrown in towards the end, and the story concluded on a cliffhanger. URGH! I’m undecided as to whether I’ll be continuing this series, but if it’s slated to be a trilogy I just might because I’ve made it this far.

LONE GIRL fell victim to the dreaded sequel syndrome, so here’s hoping that WILD GIRL will be the cure.
… (mere)
 
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RabidReads | Nov 6, 2014 |

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