Took my oldest daughter to the book store several weeks ago – she was after a journal. While there, I saw a book called “Wicked – The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West”. I read the cover and thought ‘wow, this sounds good!’. I put it down and thought I’d do like usual and come home, read some reviews and see how it did.
At the last minute, I grabbed it, paid and left.
Some books start slow. I always give myself about 75 pages or so before I can say for sure a book isn’t as good as I hoped. Usually, the book will come through, pulling me into the story. Enough at least, that I can’t just put it down and move on.
After about 40 pages or so, I did read some reviews at Amazon – it now has 4 stars and over 1000 reviews. It seems I’m with the minority though. I just can’t get into it. I’m over a hundred pages now, and invested enough time and thought into the story, I’ll go ahead and finish it… but I’ve definitely had better reads… even more interesting “bad” reads…
