Urs's Reviews > Her Perfect Revenge: A Laugh-Out-Loud Romantic Comedy

Reading this book was my second try at one of those 99-cent books that often shows up in the kindle bestseller list with good ratings. I borrowed it on booklending.com, though.

The main character in this book was the butt of a practical joke in her teens, and, as a result, she forms a lifelong hate for the guy responsible. When she encounters the prankster around sixteen years later in life, she decides to enact a plan of revenge. She starts stalking him to find out what she can use to sink him. Eventually she ends up in a fake relationship with him where feelings start to form.

If you are thinking that this plot is just plain silly, then I am right with you. That is not to mention that many of the events in the story are unbelievable. It is hard to believe that a person can be so caught up in something that happened as a child to the point that they are so obsessed with it in later life, and they are still considered to be sane. I also am not convinced that a person so obsessed with revenge and hate for another would start to have feelings for that other person.

As far as the writing goes, the book was predictable, the characters shallow, and the main character unlikable. This book could also have been about 300 pages shorter. The author is too detailed about every little interaction. It really drags. However, in the last few chapters, everything is very rushed to tie up all the loose ends and close the book.

The narrator in this story also jumps from character to character, and the reader ends up knowing too much, in my opinion. I think that this book might have been better if I had not known what everyone in the book was thinking at all times.

I recommend passing on this one, or borrowing it if you just must read it. After reading this second, disappointing, 99-cent, best seller book, I think that I am going to stay away from the 99-cent, kindle, top sellers unless they were written by established authors.