806 was book about KT, Jessie, and Gabe's crazy journey as they look for the sperm donor that is their biological father, running into unimaginable challenges while working towards finding family in more ways than one. I thought this would be a really fun road trip of self-discovery with hilarious hijinks and lovable characters; I was wrong.
The thing about this book is that I didn't care enough about the characters, maybe it's because the main character was very shut off. In any case, they lacked depth so it was hard to sympathize with them on their travels. It also, at times, felt as if the characters had this artificial personal growth because the plot required them to, rather than a more natural feeling character arc. One of the characters does a complete one-eighty with-in a single chapter and it's not really explained, but they felt like two completely different characters.
The dialogue was strange at times and it definitely didn't feel like teenagers talking, or if that is how some teenagers actually talk I've never met one. The story itself was weird, this book really suffered when "things were meant to be" was the cause of the entire second half of the book. There was no reason for everything to conveniently happen the way it did, but go off I guess. The ending was what was most effected by this. Everything is somehow beautifully tied up in a beautiful bow of "life is beautiful", none of it felt organic. It felt like an ending that was trying far too hard to be meaningful.
I don't think this was a bad book, I've certainly read worse, but there really wasn't anything good about it. While reading I got the impression that the author just didn't know how to write a compelling book, it more of a placeholder of one. Like, this could have been a good book if it was well-written, but it just wasn't. I feel like there are probably other books with this same concept (since the concept isn't that original) that are written well and I would recommend that book.
The thing about this book is that I didn't care enough about the characters, maybe it's because the main character was very shut off. In any case, they lacked depth so it was hard to sympathize with them on their travels. It also, at times, felt as if the characters had this artificial personal growth because the plot required them to, rather than a more natural feeling character arc. One of the characters does a complete one-eighty with-in a single chapter and it's not really explained, but they felt like two completely different characters.
The dialogue was strange at times and it definitely didn't feel like teenagers talking, or if that is how some teenagers actually talk I've never met one. The story itself was weird, this book really suffered when "things were meant to be" was the cause of the entire second half of the book. There was no reason for everything to conveniently happen the way it did, but go off I guess. The ending was what was most effected by this. Everything is somehow beautifully tied up in a beautiful bow of "life is beautiful", none of it felt organic. It felt like an ending that was trying far too hard to be meaningful.
I don't think this was a bad book, I've certainly read worse, but there really wasn't anything good about it. While reading I got the impression that the author just didn't know how to write a compelling book, it more of a placeholder of one. Like, this could have been a good book if it was well-written, but it just wasn't. I feel like there are probably other books with this same concept (since the concept isn't that original) that are written well and I would recommend that book.