{"id":1200,"date":"2015-08-18T16:17:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T16:17:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/?p=1200"},"modified":"2015-08-18T16:17:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T16:17:31","slug":"five-minutes-late-by-rich-amooi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ackgame.com\/onwords\/five-minutes-late-by-rich-amooi\/","title":{"rendered":"<em>Five Minutes Late<\/em> by Rich Amooi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22924329-five-minutes-late\" style=\"float: left; padding-right: 20px\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Five Minutes Late\" border=\"0\" src=\"https:\/\/d.gr-assets.com\/books\/1408207813m\/22924329.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/book\/show\/22924329-five-minutes-late\">Five Minutes Late<\/a> by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/author\/show\/7077073.Rich_Amooi\">Rich Amooi<\/a><br \/>\nMy rating: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/show\/1367271605\">2 of 5 stars<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Boy, if you eliminated all the reviews that weren&#8217;t in exchange for a free copy, the star rating would drop by about three full stars. I was very disappointed in this book. The author happens to be local to me, and I always like giving good reviews to other writers in my area, but I can&#8217;t with this one. The romance is at junior high level, as is the maturity of the characters. The author keeps putting up artificial barriers between the two characters.<\/p>\n<p>Much of the dialog was witty and fun, but then it would be spoiled by excessively crude language. When it wasn&#8217;t gross crude it was gross mushy. None of the characters remotely resembles a real person. The lead characters were impossibly perfect &#8211; beautiful, handsome, rich, brilliant, yet the woman, a 10, dates nothing but zeroes. The guy doesn&#8217;t date anyone until he meets her. The gay buddy in the library is an offensive stereotype. The vindictive cop ex-boyfriend of the woman is an offensive stereotype. About all you can say for the author is that at least he didn&#8217;t have any black characters or he&#8217;d probably show them shuckin&#8217; and jivin&#8217; or worse.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/review\/list\/12975428-russell-atkinson\">View all my reviews<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Minutes Late by Rich Amooi My rating: 2 of 5 stars Boy, if you eliminated all the reviews that weren&#8217;t in exchange for a free copy, the star rating would drop by about three full stars. I was very disappointed in this book. 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