Oh-Em-Gee

I've been wanting to start a new fantasy series for a while, but hadn't found one that caught my attention. We were at the book store on Friday evening and my eye was caught by a book with a very lovely cover, and the description looked very interesting. The name of the book was "The Iron Tree" by Cecilia Dart-Thornton. OMG. I ran a bath in the whirlpool tub tonight and settled in to a good read. I finished page one and was baffled...hubby came in and I started reading him some of the paragraphs and couldn't stop laughing. It has to be the most pretentiously written book that I have ever read. It's like she wrote the whole thing using a thesaurus or something, using words that just don't fit the story/setting at all. Things that might seem okay in a sci/fi book where a geeky scientist was talking possibly, but not a fantasy book with a young protagonist. Finally after reading the second page I threw the book down and vowed to take it back to the store tomorrow. I don't know that I have ever not made it past the first two pages before giving up, it's a new record. :)