Review: An Anonymous Girl

An Anonymous Girl by Greer Hendricks
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Hi everyone. It’s been a while since I last penned a review, but that’s because I have just woken up from the coma - like state I was forced into against my will during the consumption of this book. What year is it again?

No, unfortunately that isn’t the reason I haven’t been writing reviews (real reason: working long hours at a job I hate, like the rest of America), but hell, it could have been. This novel was so slow I think at some points it actually moved in reverse. Again, also not true, but with all the ridiculously repetitive and far fetched scenes and character interactions, it might as well have been.

SOME of the initial chapters (and mainly the inside cover summary) were intriguing, and the premise flirted hard with the concept of being unique and thrilling. Apparently “the concept” just wasn’t that into either of these authors (how and why did it take TWO people to come up with this literary Ambien?), because that potential lovefest ended before it began.

Please believe me when I say this is not a thriller. Please also believe me when I say this IS a boring, redundant and both highly predictable and blatantly unrealistic work of fiction. And I am not just referring to the lame attempts at making the reader question their own morality by asking the ‘real hard hitting questions’ - and let me tell you I have been more inclined to internally debate whether or not to eat that third slice of pizza than I was at any time while reading this Ethics 101 crash course.

No, friends. We weren’t shown any mercy here. The. Ending. Was. Trash. And it’s not even that I automatically dislike the somewhat commonly used, sort of a cop out character-committing-suicide ending, but this cheap shot was used to explain away TWO characters. Really? I have to just assume that since there were two authors on this one, they fought over who got to kill someone off using a prescription pain pill overdose, and then got bored (likely during one of their editing sessions), and decided what the hell? This book is kind of a lost cause anyhow, let’s both do it! Yay teamwork!

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