Tereza Monteiro Monteiro itibaren 71039 Roseto Valfortore FG, Italy
** spoiler alert ** I wanted to like this.... I REALLY wanted to like this. A female tattooist kicking vamp ass.... but I couldn't even get to 100 pages. I rarely leave a bad review, but this showed so much promise and failed at the 1st hurdle. I will never be a fan of overly describing anything. I find it boring and nothing switches me off faster. The lead character comes across as terribly conceited, stating the people she tattoos treat her like a superstar. The author makes a huge thing of her pink-streaked hair, so much so that we get a page detailing why she isn't a Goth. I'm utterly perplexed as to why anyone would think pink streaks and tattoos equals Goth. So why would we need a "lesson" in that? Then there's the clichéd "both parents died so the older sibling looks after the younger one, but she doesn't resent it." This wouldn't be so bad if it hadn't have been flung in at the start while to character was complaining. At times I found the writing style rather annoying, with additions to sentences such as "and I looked" "and I smiled" "and I laughed." It made the prose far too clunky. I found one line too much to handle. It could have been a direct cut a paste from Meyers "Twilight". "And I was utterly, irrevocably in love with one." I cringed. I'm utterly disappointed.
A book about a woman on a quest across America to find the perfect slice of pie. She finds some hits and some misses. Book includes some recipes for her better pie discoveries.