Nimuar's Loss: Book One of the Vildecaz Talents Book

The best method to enable the reader to get anything out of this book is imagine that you are watching one of those cheesy, awfully bad movies on SyFy channel. There, now you don't want to put your head through a plate glass while reading this book. My biggest problems with this book are the completely 2 dimensional characters and the dialogue that is not believable at all. Many of the characters aren't consistent, which I guess would be a very human trait as I don't know anybody that has 1 single patter and never wavers, but I felt as if I don't know any of the characters at all after reading this book. And don't get me started on the inconsistencies on actual life in Los Angeles compared to how its portrayed in this book. I got the impression that the author either has never been to LA, or visited once or twice and wrote based on a few superficial opinions. I'm not giving too much away by saying that an earthquake occurred, and everybody reacted in a way that is not believable.
Not to get all personal about the author or anything, but this example does not give me any confidence that I would enjoy anything that she has ever written, and I'm actually baffled how she became a best selling author. This book reads like a really good high school creative writing project. If I was an 11th grade English teacher I'd probably give the project an A, as I'm sure it's grammatically correct, and it is a creative idea (that's the 2nd star, the 1st one is just for the effort... I'm sure novel writing isn't easy, which is why I don't do it.), but this book just completely falls so very short.
Granted, I listened to the audiobook and the readers were terrible and probably would have made me hate Gone With The Wind.