Wayward
70% of this book of this book was buildup that was extremely slow and dull with repetitive writing and monotonous thoughts and actions from the characters, intermingled with obnoxious, rebellious teen angst. The remaining 30% was rushed, skipped over most of what could have been interesting parts, and clarified the top goodreads review of this book to me, which merely states, "Well that was pointless."
I can't elaborate without spoiling, but let's just say that from the first three quarters, this experience went from a boring book that focused on its weaknesses instead of its strengths, that wasn't remotely scary, and that was carried along by uninteresting, annoying characters and was hovering around a two-star read for me, to a disappointing, highly implausible, and ridiculous one in the last quarter that rewarded stupidity and left me rolling my eyes while feeling like I'd wasted my time and dropped my rating to a rare-for-me abysmal one star.
Bird Box? Great, tense, paranoia-filled apocalypse horror survival story. Malorie? Coming of age teen drama. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Do not recommend.
70% of this book of this book was buildup that was extremely slow and dull with repetitive writing and monotonous thoughts and actions from the characters, intermingled with obnoxious, rebellious teen angst. The remaining 30% was rushed, skipped over most of what could have been interesting parts, and clarified the top goodreads review of this book to me, which merely states, "Well that was pointless."
I can't elaborate without spoiling, but let's just say that from the first three quarters, this experience went from a boring book that focused on its weaknesses instead of its strengths, that wasn't remotely scary, and that was carried along by uninteresting, annoying characters and was hovering around a two-star read for me, to a disappointing, highly implausible, and ridiculous one in the last quarter that rewarded stupidity and left me rolling my eyes while feeling like I'd wasted my time and dropped my rating to a rare-for-me abysmal one star.
Bird Box? Great, tense, paranoia-filled apocalypse horror survival story. Malorie? Coming of age teen drama. Do not pass Go, do not collect $200. Do not recommend.