Quick Stats
Age Rating: 13+
Overall:
Characters: 3/5
Plot: 3/5
Setting: 3/5
Writing: 3/5
A special thanks to Penguin Teen and NetGalley for an eARC of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.
It was… fine. I enjoyed the characters and the story. I just couldn’t get invested. I liked Jonah and Max, and I thought they made a cute couple, but a lot of the plot simply felt like things happening to them, and like they had no agency, and then the few times they actually seemed to have a say in the plot, they made the dumbest decisions. I actually cared more about Olivia and Imani than I did Jonah and Max at points.
Many of the characters and plots just felt like they needed fleshing out. Kate, and everything that happened with her, just felt like one huge cliche. She was just a walking stereotype and her existence didn’t play any important role. The book would have been exactly the same without her. Many f Max’s problems with her mom needed more fleshing out as well. They just happened, and Max got upset, and then the story moved on and she just got over it without really dealing.
The pacing, too, dragged at places. It took me quite a while to get through the book because I just didn’t care. If I hadn’t gotten an ARC, I likely would have DNFed the book.
There was nothing inherently bad about the book, per se, I was just bored and didn’t care. I could have set the book down halfway through and never wondered how it ended. It was forgettable.
Age Rating: 13+
Overall:
Characters: 3/5
Plot: 3/5
Setting: 3/5
Writing: 3/5
A special thanks to Penguin Teen and NetGalley for an eARC of this book! All thoughts and opinions reflected in this review are my own.
It was… fine. I enjoyed the characters and the story. I just couldn’t get invested. I liked Jonah and Max, and I thought they made a cute couple, but a lot of the plot simply felt like things happening to them, and like they had no agency, and then the few times they actually seemed to have a say in the plot, they made the dumbest decisions. I actually cared more about Olivia and Imani than I did Jonah and Max at points.
Many of the characters and plots just felt like they needed fleshing out. Kate, and everything that happened with her, just felt like one huge cliche. She was just a walking stereotype and her existence didn’t play any important role. The book would have been exactly the same without her. Many f Max’s problems with her mom needed more fleshing out as well. They just happened, and Max got upset, and then the story moved on and she just got over it without really dealing.
The pacing, too, dragged at places. It took me quite a while to get through the book because I just didn’t care. If I hadn’t gotten an ARC, I likely would have DNFed the book.
There was nothing inherently bad about the book, per se, I was just bored and didn’t care. I could have set the book down halfway through and never wondered how it ended. It was forgettable.