All About Annie

DNF @ 17%

When I saw the premise of this book, I was drawn in by a sense of intrigue and curiosity. I was very excited to read it after I won a copy from a goodreads giveaway... only to find myself feeling a little disappointed.

The writing style is extremely stilted, somewhat repetitive, and very detached. It's almost like a grocery list of actions and thoughts interspersed with a ton of sentence fragments. For example:

Annie hadn???t even known she???d fallen asleep. Waking up so suddenly startled her. The book lay open on her lap. The phone. Damnit, that???s what was causing all the noise. Right now she was regretting her choice of ringtone. Sounded like a screaming banshee. Now, where was that phone? She almost jumped up, but stopped herself, and instead carefully placed the book on the coffee table, almost reverently, as if parting from it was almost painful. Realizing the noise was coming from somewhere nearby, she searched around the sofa cushions till she found it and quickly answered.

paranormal

I won this from a Goodreads Giveaway. It's a cute story and I expected more of a cozy type mystery, however this has more of a high school vibe.