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Awakening Foster Kelly

Posted 21st January 2015

Here's another that made my head hurt. Though this wasn't a overly bad novel, is wasn't particularly good either, lots of filler, and well, you have to read it to under stand.

Awakening Foster Kelly by Cara Rosalie Olsen
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This book was given to me by the author through Ethereal Book Reviews (-Guest Reviewer Program)

3 stars

I have to say this was a long book, an unnecessarily long book. I would be reading and my eyes would wonder off the page and then I would have my own daydreams. It kind of reminded me of how use to try and I mean try to study for biology when I was in high school (that was so long ago, oh how I don’t miss it). The same bloody thing would happen. I would read a whole page and not know what in flaming hell I just read.

This wasn’t a bad book, but it wasn’t really all that good either.

Foster would explain every little damn thing. I couldn’t follow the dialog because she would analyze it for like two pages and then I would forget what the hell the was said in the first place . There was no proper flow for most of it. At the times that there was some pretty good dialog, I would get into the story, because it flowed.

I’m not going to lie, I did speed read a lot throughout this book, because frankly, I found it a bit boring. I just couldn’t get into it; there was just too much description. I’m pretty sure if you cut out all the filler (because come-on that’s what it was) you would have a very good book at about 300 pages.

When the love interest finally came a barging in, at about, I don’t know, almost half way into the bloodily book, (he’s a total asshat) it did get a tiny bit more interesting. It prompted me to actually finish the book and not skip to the end, (Believe me it crossed my mind on more than on occasion) and to me, when Dominic finally enters, it was like the story finally got underway, still slowly though.

The ending didn’t really throw me that much, I kind of had it figured out that she was either one of two things (1) Dead and was living out her afterlife, doing all the things she wished she did or (2) She was in a coma. 1 or 2, what do you think. That ending did save the book for me, thus why I’m giving it a 3 star rating instead of a 2 star.

If you are going to read this book, note that you don’t have to read every single paragraph, you aren’t missing much of anything form the main story. It’s just filler and babble, that Foster is spurting while trying to state the obvious. For this book it’s all about the ending, even if you’re going to have to push yourself to reach it. (This is actually a little ironic, read the book and you’ll know what I’m saying.)

My overall impression, I’m happy the book is over.



Don’t stop being amazing.

Emily ;)




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