The Hand That Feeds You

There was very little I liked about this book! I thought that everything happens too fast for you to really care about the characters. Despite the MC focusing on victimology she seems to not understand anything about the subject she's studying. Her choices are all out of left field and seem to be made only to put herself in the worst places ever.

Not a book I would recommend. The story had promise but it just didn't deliver. Despite the book's flaws, I read it quickly and wanted to see where the story went.

Wow, what a disappointment. I was looking for something that would have an edge to it, and the Amazon review led me to think this would. It didn't. I found it poorly written and meandering. And, there were too many times to mention that it felt as though the authors were trying to be too cute about the atmosphere. The plot had more holes than a bagel shop, and didn't really come together. The style that they started with (checklist at the start of a chapter) quickly stopped, as though they changed direction, which added yet another layer of confusion to the book. While I can see what they were trying to get at by “updating” Les Liaisons Dangereuse, it failed. No character development, dead ends that were just a waste of time, literary cruelty to dogs, sex scenes that were cut and pasted from some not-great book... I could go on.

So, in sum: I didn't like this too much.