Review: Holly’s Inbox by Holly Denham

By: Zarabeth, guest reviewer

I give props to Holly's Inbox for being constructed using a very unique style of writing; however as a read the whole going through email thing… well there’s a lot of narrative I missed. I wanted more when I had less. That last statement is kind of cryptic so I’ll explain a bit further. It would sometimes take 3-6 days before a new email showed up to share the background behind something that was mentioned.

You really feel like an outsider, because Holly clearly knows what all is being said and what it refers to but as a voyeur to her story, I felt pretty clueless at times. I wish that as a reader I was enlightened sooner. Overall I must say I was not a fan of reading through email.

The romance part was sketchy at best because they weren’t writing romantic love letters to each other. No poetic prose for me to sigh over. Instead of wildly romantic notes it was just the barest, the most vague of details. As a reader, we only know what she tells the other secretary in email so a lot was not very clear it bothered me…

The story came together eventually and it’s definitely a Happily Ever After. It was nice, but the email format not so much. That sentiment is probably redundant at this point, but clearly the formatting wasn’t for me. I hear there’s a book that’s all done with instant messaging style, ttfn (Internet Girls), and I certainly won’t go looking for that. The idea of that is just excruciating.

Rating: 2 Stars

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Zarabeth Golden – who has written 23 posts on Love Romance Passion.

Zarabeth's favorite heroines are inevitably spinsters, her favorite subgenre is Highlander, and the more those two combine the happier her favorite shelf will be. Learn more about Zarabeth in her Reader Highlight.