Review: D.E. Boone

Happy Valentine's Day from Book Love Affair. Of course, it may not be a happy V-Day for you. What other holiday is quite so polarizing as one based around the fact you are either in a relationship or alone? At least, we readers, will always have books. How can one be alone, when one has a legion of authors in one's library waiting to offer comfort? For those who do feel down around this particular holiday, I assure you that you are not alone. In fact, D. E. Boone, author of Legs Talk: Let Your Legs do the Talking probably feels similarly. About her new book she says, "I wanted to confront the realities of our less than fairy-tale like relationships" (Quote provided by GLobal Force Media LLC).

Author: D. E. Boone Format: Mid-Sized Paperback Available Formats: Kindle Page Count: 112 Genre: Humor / Dating Publisher: Global Force Media LLC Pub. Date: February 14, 2008 ISBN-13: 9780979745348

The premise of Legs Talk: Let Your Legs do the Talking is a book aimed at the cynics and downtrodden left in the wake of Valentine's Day.

The book is done entirely in black and white. Generally, the format is a picture on one page with a short sentence on the opposing page. The pictures only show the waist and below of each model--hence the "Legs Talk" part. The "story", then is told by the legs and phrases:

Girl meets boy with leg fetish. Boy woos girl. Girl falls for boy. Boy disappears. Girl and boy break up.

The book isn't bad, I'd say...but I wouldn't have spent $10 for its scant 112 pages. (Remember half of those are pictures and there's never more than a single sentence on every other page.) The book could have been a cute look at all those relationships that go wrong, but there are several things holding Legs Talk back. Firstly, there are many pages that seem added in not because they made sense with the story, but because they seemed like cute ideas that the author wanted to fit in. Ultimately, it made the writing feel a little disjointed. Additionally, I felt some of the photos were just slapped onto the pages haphazardly. Some pictures, if they spread onto the second page, showed sloppy editing. One that comes to mind is the the image of the girl meditating ("Thinking of you...not!"), where her knee is chopped off awkwardly mid-page. Lastly, though I don't want to spoil, I found the last three pages to be a total "cop out"...

The idea is cute, but for $10--more than most mass market paperback books--I'd like to see a little better; however, one may consider it as a gift for a friend who needs a laugh after a break up.

Final Score: 2/5

If you'd like to see more about Legs Talk: Let Your Legs do the Talking, go to Legs-Talk.com.