Pandora, Temika and Tamara are best friends. Best friends hold no secrets. They have each other's backs. Best friends share almost everything. Tamara took sharing a bit too far when she started messing with Pandora's boyfriend, Gryphon.Pandora is not going to let this betrayal go by without a fight. Pandora wants to teach Tamara and Gryphon a lesson about friendship and love. With Temika's help, Pandora will use Tamara's weaknesses against her.Tamara, who has been treating her depression and schizophrenia, now has to prove that her behavior and actions aren’t what everyone thinks. She turns to her friends for help, only to discover that Pandora has been behind the scenes manipulating everything to make Tamara look bad. Gryphon is remorseful for his actions and tries to prove to Pandora that he will be faithful. But, he unwittingly gets tangled in Pandora's schemes, assisting in damaging Tamara's reputation as well as his own.Pandora will use all means necessary to make sure she ruins lives, gets the satisfaction she wants and show how much love can hurt. In a word, Pandora wants Revenge
First impression: Get an editor, stat. You'll thank them later. Even a moderately decent proofreader should have caught things like, "She hated having too keep gossip to herself for too long;" (page 2!) or the fact that we're literally THROWN into the book: no title page, no copyright information, nothing about the author...? It strikes me as a NaNoWriMo attempt that went straight to (self-)publication on December 1 without a second thought.
I'll give it, other than the ALL CAPS for the back cover, it's not a *terrible* book design (that I unfortunately assume is a stock image from somewhere but I haven't checked), but it's missing a lot of things that better books have: commensurate pacing of events, some time dedicated to introducing who the characters are (maybe where they live, what they look like...?), what they want to do—heck, why we should care about them. I don't know. I feel like I'm reading a stranger's social media post detailing what happened in the day in the life of people I have no idea who they are.
I've barely gotten thirty pages in, and there are only 110 (4 blank, other than the Print-On-Demand stamping). Yet I'm struggling to continue the story, as all-over-the-place as it is.
(update)
I had to start over from the beginning to start to make sense of the sheer mess. I can follow a little better now, but a good book wouldn't make me reread the entire thing to pick up the threads I missed before. Main issues:
- new characters thrown in willy-nilly with no introduction, hard to follow who's related to which other character(s) - can't get a good image in mind of any of the characters (looks, personality, etc.), since most of the text is strictly what they're doing and saying (telling instead of showing) - so much passive voice - I just don't like ANY of the characters, to be honest - the "punish the Other Woman and not the cheating boyfriend" trope is stupid, sorry
Nah, sorry. I can't with this. I tried, but I can't find anything holding my interest. I'm sure it's an OKAY story, but it's not for me.
Sasha Welter wrote a vindictive novella that makes you have extreme hatred for one of the main characters.
A scorned teenager, Pandora, vows to take revenge on one of her best friends, Tamara. Her other best friend agrees to assist Pandora with her payback. Pandora’s malicious behavior brings you to believe that her revenge will never end.
Has Pandora gone too far? Will their friendship survive this ordeal? How much is too much?
Sasha is a very creative writer who never disappoints her readers. Her novellas are page-turners and each one is jam packed with drama.
Sasha is on my auto-read list. If you read her books, she will be on yours as well.
DNF at 74%. This read like it was a rough draft. It has potential to be good but the story isn’t fleshed out enough at all. There is minimal description of anything. One moment the characters are at school, the next they are at home, the next they are at a coffee shop. It is really short but it is so short because there is barely a story to follow. I see the potential but it just did not feel done. I gave up completely when one of the characters names was misspelled one paragraph later (Lanita to Letitia).