Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

I downloaded this book based on the high reviews from other readers...but I just don't understand the hype. I lost interest in this novel for several reasons. The top one was the author's peppering the novel with strong language. Don't get me wrong, I've read plenty of books where a well deserved f-bomb was called for, but it was used way too often in this novel for my taste, and in a crass fashion. The characters were difficult to root for. The heroine had little, if any appeal. Instead of being a plausible down-on-her-luck character she comes across as a whiny Debbie-Downer. To make things worse, she makes no effort to improve her situation in life. She just plugs away at her sad, lonely existence with an "oh wo is me" attitude. Stop being so turned off by the human race and make a friend! I felt that her lonely lot in life was too much of her own fault to feel any sympathy for her. But the heroine wasn't the worst offender. Almost every secondary character was either rude, shallow, or snotty. The hero took the cake for poorly developed characters. His behavior was often crass or selfish, so much so that it didn't seem plausible that he would care about the heroine, or anyone for that matter. Does anybody really find a man appealing when he whines about all of the faults of his previous girlfriend? The author tried to make too much of him (multi-language, massage specialist, consummate chef, pedicure master, ninja) but fails to make him an appealing person. His final moments in the book seem beyond ridiculous. The whole feel-so-bad-for me-while-I-publicly-and-tactlessly-expose-my-ex approach was the final nail in his coffin for me. To be fair, I understand that the point of this novel is to provide a fun, escapism for the reader. Sometimes you want to read something impossible. But between the unnecessarily strong language, the crassness of the romantic elements, and selfish behavior of nearly every character made this novel an uncomfortable read. I don't enjoy tearing down a writer's work. It's tough to write an entire novel. But I would have appreciated a head's up about the downfalls of Swan before diving in.