Why did I buy Martina Cole?! Just ugh.

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Had a wander through town today and as I'm on holiday from work but a bit skint at the mo I thought I'd treat myself to a couple of charity shop books. Why did I go for the bloody Martina Cole? Every one of her books is identical - outrightly misogynistic, CRINGEY use of what she believes is "street slang," etc.
In this delightful tome we have a seventeen year old girl "with tits like lumps of warm cement" and the female protagonist is worrying that her baby will be a "split arse."

Now I feel gross and £1.50 poorer.

burn it to keep your hands warm

it is all it is fit for

Good plan! Have moved on to Mr Mercedes by Stephen King which I hope is better. It's funny - loads of adult writers obviously use adult content but theres something so distasteful about Martina Cole.

Omg those terms! :(
I feel dirty now for enjoying 'The Take' when it was on sky one.
I'm halfway through 'Her' by Harriet Lane really enjoying it would recommend

It's The Take I bought! Did it really get made into a series?!

Martina Cole comes across as a massive woman hater

I read a couple of her books a few years ago. The Cockney rhyming slang is absolutely cringeworthy.

Yes it was on tv a couple years ago Tom Hardy was in it- don't remember those line being it the tv version although some of it was pretty grim as I remember.

Oh god, I read The Ladykiller (I think) a year or so back, I thought it would be a good new author I could get into and.... eurgh, just unbelievable rubbish. She can't write for toffee. I'd forgive her the silly, cliched plots if she could at least write.

Though The Take was a surprisingly good TV show, mainly for Tom Hardy scaring the pants off everyone.

He was terrifying in it wasn't he Thurlow and in Bronson!

I've never considered myself a particularly discerning reader but Martina Cole's use of language is, to put it in the most eloquent terms it deserves, shit.

I got one for 10p from the church jumble sale: I think it was called 'dangerous lady' or something, about a child prostitute who becomes a gangland boss.

It was utter shite. I left it on a train. How is Martina Cole so popular? How?

I got a few of hers as audiobooks. Bizarrely, they were reasonably enjoyable in that format. I just got a proper book of hers out of the library in a rush and I managed one chapter. She really does write appallingly.

She's an awful writer. I read a few pages on the Jump (?) and it was sooooo repetitive and badly written. My mum loves her book as a holiday read but even she admits they are all the same plot churned out and rehashed over and over.

I enjoyed the first one dangerous lady as it was an interesting plot of a London gangland family. I read the family this week and it's like reading the same book again. It's always the same characters in different books. I'm starting to find them tedious.

Agree. Just full of horrible people doing horrible things to each other. No characters to care about or root for.