A review by emetrock
The Crowning Glory of Calla Lily Ponder by Rebecca Wells

2.0

I picked this up at Powell's after reading a positive review of it (somewhere), but wow, what a disappointment. I never really connected with any of the characters (not even the main character, Calla Lily, which was unfortunate since I was stuck with her for many, many pages), and I blame that on the fact that none of them were very well developed. The book is told in the first-person, and I rapidly grew weary of listening to Calla Lily. She used way, way, WAY too many exclamation points. I know, it sounds silly to be put-off by a punctuation mark, but I suggest you search your inbox for a cheesy forward, one filled with !!!! all over the place, and then imagine it as a several hundred page book, and then I'm sure you will understand my weariness. Oh, wait, I wrote that wrong. Then I'm sure you will understand my weariness! ;)