A review by bookfay
Hush Little Baby by J.A. Baker

slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? No
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

 
With this one I'll get straight to the point - it was awful. It is a good contender of a worst book I read in a while.
From the first pages I was destracted by unnecessery flowery writing style. It felt like author just opend a dictionary and decided to use most fancy/random seldom used words, just to be different from everybody else. It distracted from the plot, although there wasn't that much of a plot.
Also this book was beyond slow. Half of the book was copy - paste from the previous chapter. I event noted some sentences that were use word for word in few chapters in the row.
None of the characters had any redeaming qualities, most of the time I just was annoyed by them.
Some of the plot twists in this book were completely random and gave nothing to the story, it's like author felt herself, that writing same lines over and over again is a little bit excesive, so just put first thing that came to her mind just out of the blue.
From the middle of the book I started skipping paragraphs, sometimes even pages, because I just couldn't be bothered to read the same thing and doing that I haven't loosed much. I still could follow the story, I think that shows, that this bookd could have been much shorter - chunks of this story could have been edited out.
I don't think I will read other books by this author. Her writing style is definitely not my style.