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Sweet Oblivion (2013)

by Bailey Ardisone(Favorite Author)

3.92 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Bailey Ardisone

review 1: Good book. Be prepared to buy the sequel.For the content of the book itself, I want to rank this one a 4. However, the ending was nowhere near what I feel it should have been. Instead of leaving the reader at the end of a book with a resolution or conclusion, one is left at the climax. Even in other trilogies, the books tend to end with some resolution. I've only seen endings like this in weekly serials or comic books. The writing was superb and I enjoyed the story line.
review 2: Sweet Oblivion (Sweet #1) by Bailey Aridsone3 StarsNariella’s foster mum died when she was eight years old and since then she has lived with her foster father Ray. Ray is a drinker and treats Nariella like Cinderella, expecting her to keep house and look after him like a maid.... more When he gets drunk he often gets aggressive with her so she stays out of his way as much as possible. Rydan, her best friend is her little bit of sanctuary in her very sad world, and she often spends time with him in their special place at the willow tree. Recently Rydan has moved school and much to her surprise Nari makes a new friend, Zaylie, who is a twin and from Australia, I haven’t quite worked out the significance of these two, unless they really are there just as her new friends. Along side the main story we also have a side story about Namine, and it isn’t until the end of the book that the two stories connect and a little sense is made of the plot.Sweet Oblivion is an interesting story but the pacing is off, it is slowed down by the incessant inner thoughts of the main character Nari. I got tired of hearing how sad her life was, how cruel her foster father was, about her unhappiness and her isolation, it was repetitive and became tiresome. Apart from Mycah entering her life and doing a few tricks, ie fixing her broken sculpture and healing her bruises, not a great deal happens in this story at all. There is one exciting incident where Nari is kidnapped but it’s over as quick as it starts and there were a few things around that event that didn’t ring true and left me feeling flat.So I assume the story is set in America but we have a couple of Australian characters and Mycah who is English. Being English myself I became irritated by Mycah’s dialogue, there were some Americanisms thrown in there that us English don’t use and with the reader being told, often, that he was English it would have been nice if his dialogue reflected that in a natural way, then perhaps we wouldn’t have had to keep being reminded.I have already read book two of this series and read this book to try to make sense of that story. I’m glad I did because now I can go back to ‘Sweet Escape’, re-read it and hopefully not walk away as confused as I was first time around.Copy supplied for review less

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