At the Goddard Book Fair I picked up a copy of The Radleys by Matt Haig. One of the volunteers in the fiction section was lamenting that a couple of books she thought were really good weren't selling. I asked her which ones and decided to give this one a try. There's a reason it wasn't selling. It's because it was awful!It's a book about suburban vampires who abstain from drinking blood, trying to have a normal life. The idea was fine, but the writing was so awful! I thought maybe if it had been written for young adults it would have been excusable, but it wasn't. This was written for adults. Adult nincompoops. Both reviews on the back of the book refer to the book as witty. I'm pretty sure this book contained not one fluid ounce of wit.
Anyway. I could go on about how the surprising twists and turns this book promised me could be seen coming a mile away. Or how even trying to read this with a British accent (this is an English novel) couldn't save the dialogue. It made me wish I had caved and read Twilight instead (and that's saying a lot seeing as that would be the ultimate betrayal to myself).
- Megan Leigh
4 comments:
Ah ha ha. At least it made you write a funny review.
I thought maybe it was about Boo Radley and family. That would be interesting.
Me too. That's what I was hoping when I saw the title. Now that would be a book.
That would be a fun book. When Kristin said it the first time I thought she was talking about the Boo Radleys, the band!
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