Book Review: Where It All Began

Title: Where It All Began 

Author: Fran Thomas

Date: 2021

Publisher: Frances O. Thomas

Quote: "So what if she was the homecoming queen?"

This is one of those short and simple stories that could easily have been written by ChatGPT, then cleaned up by the author. (Who'd be an editor these days? All publishers and editors say "Don't send us anything that was written using any form of 'artificial intelligence'," and then earlier this week one of them said they've started to charge reading fees because it seems to them that 99% of everything they get these days was written by chatbots. Writers have to sound not just correct and readable, but really "voicey," just to convince people they're human.) 

He was intimidated by her popularity. She was intimidated by his intelligence. Actually they're quite a congenial couple, and when he comes back to their old home town, first they take opposite sides on a town council issue, then they reach an agreement, then they kiss. It's a romantic comedy, but not all that romantic and hardly comic at all.

And it all takes place in 1986. This couple were meant to be the unifying factor in a series that happened later in its fictional world, but I've seen no more of the series.

Meh. The author didn't stay in the Book Funnel for long, so I'm guessing she's dropped out of the game, or at least picked a new pen name...I didn't mind reading this e-book as a free Book Funnel promotion, but I would have minded if I'd paid for it.