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Friday, August 15, 2025

Review - Bad Date (short story)


 Bad Date by Ellery Lloyd (short story)


OVERVIEW

This is a short story by Ellery Lloyd, the pseudonym of husband-and-wife writing team Collette Lyons and Paul Vlitos. This short story was offered as an Amazon First Reads FREE short story for August 2025. If you have Amazon Prime, you can also get this short story HERE


OVERALL REVIEW: 3.0 stars


Writing: 3.0 stars

The writing was not my favorite. It was just boring. 


Character development: 3.0 stars

The main characters are Fay (a C-list celebrity) and Poppy (her BFF and assistant).    

The secondary characters are Wolf (Fay's son) and Ollie (Fay's date). 

There really are no other characters. The characters were horrible people at the beginning and the end.  


Storyline:  3.0 stars

What an unbelievably awful story about a parent assisting her son to be a horrible person. That's all I will say in case you choose to read it.  

The main location is England 


Memorable/Informative:  5.0 stars

We need to ensure that children are not on social media or online unsupervised because they are being brainwashed by so-called influencers and social media.  


Book cover: 3.0 stars

Icky and creepy.  


Book title: 3.0 stars 

A little inaccurate!  


Lukewarm recommend


BOOK INFORMATION

Amazon First Reads ebook Kindle short story 

Bad Date by Ellery Lloyd

58 pages 

Amazon Original Stories

Release date of 9/1/2025


INFORMATIONAL LINKS

Ellery Lloyd

Goodreads review

The StoryGraph review

Amazon Original Stories


TRIGGER WARNINGS

Graphic cursing, death, murder, divorce, stalking, abandonment, mental illness, drug use, violence, and alcohol.


Happy reading,

Dorothea 💜


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