falon

The first time I read this book in middle school, I thought it was incredible. Now, it's pretty insufferable. If it had been executed properly with more character development beyond incessant whining, it would have been great, but, sadly that didn't happen. I hated every single one of the characters besides the kidnapper, for fuck's sake.
Summer, to start off with, I had absolutely no sympathy for. She just whined and bitched and moaned in the least endearing way the whole book and was only focused on her boyfriend. Like, your family, do they matter?
Then Lewis, who I couldn't stand for even one second. I skipped over every one of his chapters because it was just filled with sappy love shit every other line.
The only vaguely interesting character was Clover/Colin, who at least had some depth, some mystery, some intrigue.
The writing in this was also horrendous. There's was no mystery or beauty to it; it was all tell and no show. all of the characters thoughts that were written were cringy to read.
All in all, this is a 1.5 star book. Clover earned that .5

how many ya thrillers are gonna be allowed to repurpose pretty little liars

I am BITTER. At the beginning, I really thought this was gonna be a new favorite. I loved the cult and the descriptions, how it was looking at trauma and religion. I was stoked. But then, it took such a nosedive. We focused on two characters I didn't care about at all the whole time when all I wanted to hear from was David and Angela. We heard so much about Deacon's band that I didn't care about and Beth and Deacon's romance that I also didn't care about. The story also spoiled everything that happened with the cult so all of the flashbacks weren't surprising or scary because I knew what would happen. I also predicted the ending so early on and it's an ending I absolutely hate; it's a “The Deep” by Nick Cutter type of ending that was just so disappointing and terrible. UGHHHH

i just think it's neat

of course richards favorite book is the great gatsby