How do I dislike thee, let me count the ways
I only picked this up from my local library because I heard it was being optioned for TV so I was like, wait, really? The excerpt I had read was pretty bad, did it get better? It must be better, because it's being optioned over the hundreds of other books that aren't that totally deserve it, so this book must get better, RIGHT?
This book was bad. Just, bad. B-A-D. The mystery was bland and I guessed the red herring and the actual culprit in the first couple of chapters. Also, it was weird with the flirting. Like, at one point a guy flirts by wrapping his fist around each of her toes? That's not sexy... And then she kept talking at random about how turned on she was getting throughout the book, and I was like, rein it in girl. There's a time and a place, and it kept happening at not the time. Then the characters themselves... I couldn't keep any of their names straight because they were all just that bland, like little cookie cut-out gingerbread men, but without the ginger, or sugar, or any flavor at all really. Teens just don't act that way. Teens don't just get away with everything while parents and school administration just watch and chuckle and go "Ah, kids." The kids in this book were so far from reality I might have ruptured a blood vessel rolling my eyes too hard. Even in Gossip Girl there were consequences for goodness sake. And what about how the cops are so incompetent they don't even do their basic job descriptions and run tests? With a rich white boy accused of murder? I'm not buying any of it.
The whole story was more generic than Great Value.
This book was bad. Just, bad. B-A-D. The mystery was bland and I guessed the red herring and the actual culprit in the first couple of chapters. Also, it was weird with the flirting. Like, at one point a guy flirts by wrapping his fist around each of her toes? That's not sexy... And then she kept talking at random about how turned on she was getting throughout the book, and I was like, rein it in girl. There's a time and a place, and it kept happening at not the time. Then the characters themselves... I couldn't keep any of their names straight because they were all just that bland, like little cookie cut-out gingerbread men, but without the ginger, or sugar, or any flavor at all really. Teens just don't act that way. Teens don't just get away with everything while parents and school administration just watch and chuckle and go "Ah, kids." The kids in this book were so far from reality I might have ruptured a blood vessel rolling my eyes too hard. Even in Gossip Girl there were consequences for goodness sake. And what about how the cops are so incompetent they don't even do their basic job descriptions and run tests? With a rich white boy accused of murder? I'm not buying any of it.
The whole story was more generic than Great Value.