A Pound of Flesh

A Pound of Flesh 

by Sophie Jackson 

        I am so depressed about this.... I was SO excited for this book. I mean I’ve never read anything like it and I was so intrigued, but unfortunately I only made it to about 45% in before I ended up DNF’ing it. The very beginning of this book was SUPER promising and I loved our characters Kat and Carter. Kat is Carter’s teacher and eventual one on one tutor. The twist? Carter is in prison! Like I said, I was so intrigued! Carter is the definition of bad boy, and he definitely is. Carter was not where I had my problem with this book. My biggest problem was the writing. I started to notice right away some issues and I just ignored it because it wasn’t a big deal, but then. THEN I felt like parts of the book were missing. For instance multiple times throughout the 45% that I read we would be in one scene and then when we switched pov’s we’d be in an entirely different scene. Almost to the point where I kept looking back to see if I either skipped pages accidentally or if my copy of the book was missing pages. Needless to say my book was fine, and I wasn’t skipping anything. You get my point though, I felt like the author was skipping ALL over the place! Which really sucked because the part of this book that had me so intrigued was Kat tutoring Carter in jail and then building on the attraction slowly in there until he was released from prison. That’s not how it went, AT ALL. They were in the prison setting for like a hot five minutes..... Like all of a sudden Carter is released and he’s calling her baby and they have this intense relationship........

      No build up, no tension, and absolutely no chemistry between our main two characters. I felt like Kat was a completely different person for 30% of this book, and then all of a sudden we experience another one of those skipping around scenes and she’s doing a complete 180, dancing at clubs and trying to seduce Carter. This right here is where I knew this book wasn’t for me. One minute she’s at the library tutoring Carter and telling him she’s going out of town, and the next page we switch pov’s and Carter just happens to see her at a club dancing like a stripper! Like how does that make any sense with the responsible almost shy Kat we’ve had for the first part of this book!!!? Also wasn't she going out of town? Like I just felt SO confused during this book. Nothing really made sense! I finally decided to DNF it though when Kat shows up at Carter’s place (also randomly) and they start to have sex and he calls her Katherine. A little back ground on the name thing; Carter usually calls her peaches or Ms. Lane. When he calls her Katherine she LITERALLY flips the heck out and starts cussing and screaming and it’s intense! (Another example of the complete personality change of her character) Carter is literally just floored standing there like WTF. I understand why she is uncomfortable with the name Katherine, but still her reaction was completely unnecessary and dramatic. I felt like there was no build up to that scene or really any reason why she should have acted that way toward him. Really like most of what I read it felt totally unnatural and unnecessary!

     Overall guys this book is just all over the place and I just couldn’t get on board with the plot skipping, and also the way Kat’s character was written. A big pet peeve of mine is when the writer focuses heavily on what the characters are wearing, like down to the detail and constantly. Like we can't get one scene without the author telling us exactly what our main female character is wearing. I especially can't stand when the author just HAS to inform us that it's designer clothing, like 24/7. Okay we get you can afford a Hermes bag, but I find it so distracting and annoying! I’m pretty good about pushing through a book, but this was just an exception. I knew I’d be rolling my eyes for the rest of it and it would more then likely take me a long time to finish it or it could have put me in a reading slump. So I DNF’ed it. 

     I hate DNF’ing books, but really why am I going to force myself to read something I already can’t stand!!? They’re so many good books out there and I don’t want to waste my time on one that not even 45% in and I can’t stand! Never feel bad about not finishing books! I feel like as readers (especially ones on social media) we feel pressured to finish, rate, and review books. Which yes that’s important, but it also says a lot if you can’t finish a book too. So you do you and like I said never feel pressured to finish a book. Even though this book wasn’t for me that doesn’t mean you won’t like it. In fact one of my favorite youtubers LOVES this book, and usually I love everything she recommends, but just shows you that not everyone loves the same books!