Review: Gwen by Stacy Ataree

Dear Ms. Ataree,

I downloaded Gwen when it was free on Amazon because the idea of a YA love story involving a pit bull sounded all kinds of awesome. And I have to say, your book was pretty clean, well formatted and had a cute cover.

Did I mention I really, really liked the idea? Unfortunately the writing just isn’t there…yet. Don’t get me wrong, there’s potential. Gwen reads like a first draft, the Get-this-story-out draft. But I should have been reading it at a crit group, not as a published book.

So here’s what I want to say instead of a review: Ms. Ataree, please keep writing, and keep READING. Study the books that are out there on the shelves and find out how to push your own language skills up to a balls-out, glorious beauty that will make readers unable to look away. And please revisit Gwen again, because I really want to read your awesome story about how a pit bull and a orphan find their strength. This just isn’t it. Yet.