Mine -Uncut Version: Potential veering towards disappointment

Mine Uncut Version was sent to me by Maxine-Booklover Catlady Publicity in order to give an honest review of it. The book is about Jenna, a young beautiful woman, married to an older sadistic man, Ben, a cold violent abusive husband, starts an affair with Andrew, their lawyer, a charming man who will turn her life upside down. Unfortunately, I didn't like the book and couldn't give it more than 1 and that was for the following:

1. Despite that the book has good potential ideas to make it interesting and enjoyable, however the author failed to develop them or even make them convincing. For instance, the abuse, the fear, the desperation, genuine feelings were just kept at the surface just floating themes without any depth.

2. The writing style was poorly done and suffers from basic simple sentence construction, unvaried syntax, to flabby descriptions and boring repetitions of words without any efforts to swap out overused words, adjectives. Briefly, the book is built on very simple basic phrases, monotonous dialogues, limited vocabulary with no sign nor proof of editing.

3. Illogical and absurd situations and the book abounds with incoherent transitions, vague incidents, plot holes almost every other chapter. For instance, condoms are always at ready everytime they have sex, even at a benefit, the unexplained interruptions of Eric barging in everywhere Andrew and Jenna are about to do something, another example of plot errors in the book is one of the scenes where Jenna donned a "SUMMER DRESS", she meets with Andrew, he reaches for the hem of her "SKIRT". Example of absurdity and illogical scenes are when Ben hurts Jenna really bad that her Achilles tendon is ruptured and her leg is put in a cast, she is fit enough to clean, tidy up Andrew's house, JUMP DOWN from the kitchen counter, cooks!!! Andrew with his friends broke in Jenna's house to save her and the author forgot to explain how they managed to pass the crazy senator and his bodyguards, etc.

4. The characters are flat, unconvincing and one dimensional. The author failed to build up good deep characterization to relate to or feel for. From the abuser husband to the victim wife and the savior lover. The author didn't deliver convincing personality traits of each. Starting with Ben Krammer, wife beater and abuser but doesn't show convincing paranoid and jealous side, for example, as a paranoid abuser, he won't send his wife to submit some documents to Andrew, a very handsome man. An hypersensitive controlling crazy would pay more attention to every small detail that may point to her affair. As for Jenna, although she is an abuse victim and has been battered for years, she shows contradictory characteristics. Someone who lives in constant fear of her husband, should be socially isolated and has trust issues, however she was able to open up quickly to Andrew and after few days of their meeting, she ended up in his arms, an alpha male with traits to be hated for and not be trusted for being arrogant, rude, domineering.

The only thing I liked about the book is the message and information left by the author with regards to abuse victims.