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A review by saarahn
Those Red High Heels by Katherine May
2.0
It was far too cliché for me.
Not only that, but it was downright disgusting.
It had a large Cinderella element to it: Emma was dealing with a miserable situation she meets Greyson and things start to look up (after buying the heels of course). The book deals with something I have a strong dislike towards-adultery. Another thing I disliked was that, the victim of it was portrayed to be evil throughout (Nora). It is later revealed that she had such secrets of her own.
Emma was an idiot, all the way through. She had no self control nor any common sense. She flirts with Greyson (an engaged man), she meets his fiancé, then after running into Nora (the fiancé) she adapts a self-righteous attitude of what did I do to her? I hated her constant self pitying attitude.
I liked Nora far more: she was strong, in control and confident. Though she deserved better than Greyson, who was pretty annoying. Mostly because he was a grown man who still let his old man rule his life- why must this be so common amongst books like this? How the hell did this become a cliché?
It was also frustrating that Brynn and Collin kept coming up...we get it, they're perfect! No one cares...I never at any point found them cute. Nor did I buy into the 'perfectness' (I know it's not a word) of their relationship. Perfect doesn't exist, every relationship has problems and you'd be a fool to believe otherwise. I'm not being cynical, I'm just being matter of fact. Ugh...This book wasn't worth it, but I did read to the end.
Not only that, but it was downright disgusting.
It had a large Cinderella element to it: Emma was dealing with a miserable situation she meets Greyson and things start to look up (after buying the heels of course). The book deals with something I have a strong dislike towards-adultery. Another thing I disliked was that, the victim of it was portrayed to be evil throughout (Nora). It is later revealed that she had such secrets of her own.
Emma was an idiot, all the way through. She had no self control nor any common sense. She flirts with Greyson (an engaged man), she meets his fiancé, then after running into Nora (the fiancé) she adapts a self-righteous attitude of what did I do to her? I hated her constant self pitying attitude.
I liked Nora far more: she was strong, in control and confident. Though she deserved better than Greyson, who was pretty annoying. Mostly because he was a grown man who still let his old man rule his life- why must this be so common amongst books like this? How the hell did this become a cliché?
It was also frustrating that Brynn and Collin kept coming up...we get it, they're perfect! No one cares...I never at any point found them cute. Nor did I buy into the 'perfectness' (I know it's not a word) of their relationship. Perfect doesn't exist, every relationship has problems and you'd be a fool to believe otherwise. I'm not being cynical, I'm just being matter of fact. Ugh...This book wasn't worth it, but I did read to the end.