If Only It Had Vanished

Dangit. This book had all the key words on the back: "drafty", "tension", "obsession", "disappear", "unsolved". I was completely smitten. However, I was quickly disappointed by the klutzy writing and mismanagement of words. Particularly one. Allow me please to quote a few gems for you.

"Irony had drained our energy."

"Where was irony now when we needed her most? All shields were gone, all masks removed."

"Sometimes I would see Victoria as she was on the first day. Just a girl in love with irony and looking to be noticed." (Sure that's the character who's in love with irony?)

"I think how it is ironic that there should be darkness and light, even now." Seriously?

Interestingly, none of these scenarios are remotely ironic. So there you go. At the end I didn't care who lived or died. Maybe I was just being . . . nope, I can't do it. I was just being a B.