(E) The Education of Victoria by Angela Meadows

An open letter to the author...

I would first like to direct your attention to the definition of the word, plot (as defined by dictionary.com):  "Also called a storyline.  The plan, scheme, or main story of a literary or dramatic work, as a play, novel, or short story."

Now, I have read a great many books in my time and there are only two books that, until now, I have not finished once I began.  The first was Woman in Red by Eileen Goudge and the other was Consequences by Aleatha Romig.  You now have the distinction of being added to that list.  Why, you may ask?  I refer you back to my opening statement, the definition of the word "plot" - of which your book does NOT have one!

If I wanted to spend my time reading about nothing but sex, give me something that makes me want to push forward in the book; that makes me want to turn each and every page.  Give me characters that I relate to and that I want to see succeed.  Even Fifty Shades of Grey had a plot, despite the countless pages of sex that was within it.  We wanted to see how Ana and Christian achieved being in a relationship together despite his massive faults.  We wanted to see the characters grow because we knew that underneath it all, they loved each other.  Your characters were just a bunch of silly young girls who had a bunch of random sex with each other (by the way, I get the whole "you need to figure out how to please yourself before you please a man" part but why throw in all the F/F sex if they're figuring out how to please a man?).  You didn't give us a likable character in Victoria, who seemed nothing but a silly, air-headed aristocratic daughter who wanted things handed to her.  You didn't even give us a love interest for crying out loud!!

I even skipped to the end of the book, hoping against hope that there was something that would keep me reading.  "Just maybe she'll have achieved something - a love interest perhaps or even finding a dark secret about the school that she and the other girls need to figure out."  But, alas, I did not.  Next time you write a book, give us characters we want to cheer for and give us an actual PLOT to keep us interested.

Thank you.

An ARC was provided by NetGalley in exchange for my honest review.