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Plush (2013)

by Kate Crash(Favorite Author)

4.22 of 5 Votes: 2

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English

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Romance

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BookBaby

review 1: PLUSHBy Kate CrashI received this ebook for an honest review. Unfortunately, I could not finish this book. It was troubling to read because1. I didn’t know if I was reading a screenplay with the improper punctuations (Loc 169 Jack: “I told you we were cool.”) or poetry (Loc263 I am a mouse. / So small. / I have shrunk./ So close to the ground I can’t even see the sky or feel alive.)2. I didn’t understand the metaphors. The author contradicted the use of a metaphor at least twice a page.The actual storyline is very disturbing and while I know that there are teenagers with screwed up lives (I come in contact with people that suffer with mental illness, alcoholism and have been in prison in my line of work) this story line crosses over into total chaos. The fan fict... moreion aspect about going to Austin for the festival is thrown in there by introducing a woman named Annie who “gets wet” from listening to one song and then they are signed? I am not sure why that part was so rushed. I believed I stopped right after the young Mexican teenager was introduced as Jack and Hayley’s new mother. Honestly, if I were Ms. Crash, I would pull the book and do a serious editing overhaul. There are copy editors out there who are fairly inexpensive. I think I get the idea of what the author is trying to say but the incomplete sentences and poor use of semi-colons, capital letters and metaphors deterred me from reading it through.Good luck! I hope it works out with the screenplay. I think that’s the form of writing this book should have been in from the beginning.
review 2: "We may be broken, but we're still alive."This novel might just be one of those included in the fucked-up* lists but could also be one of those in the artsy-semi-genius ones. Yes, there were a lot of grammatical errors, but I learned to appreciate them in a way that it made the novel seem more real, more bare, more raw. The incoherence of some of the words used to form phrases and sentences almost did not matter, because they still seemed beautiful to the ears and eyes. One could almost attribute every imperfection that could be derived from it to be some sort of expression of art, because the characters themselves were all--excuse the term--as fucked-up as everything else presented by and in the novel. It's almost a nasty compilation of unpolished prose and poetry of a messed-up, neophyte writer/poet that seemed to make it work and I loved it. less

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