I may have gone into this story with too high of expectations but I don't feel that that's really affected my opinion. I want to just start off by saying that the story was good and I wasn't really disappointed in that so much as other things did. It was more the characters. I just struggled to connect with them in the way I've done in the past with emotional contemporary books.
One thing that I didn't really like was the main character. I just don't feel he was super complex. He was a straightforward and classic tortured character, in my opinion. There wasn't much uniqueness about him for me to enjoy. There were also times that his POV was unnecessarily difficult to read from. I always expect there to be times that I dislike reading from a character, but it was so often in this book, that it made it hard to enjoy things at times. I also feel he was very illogical in his thinking. With characters who feel they need to lie, they have whole reasons and trains of thought that justify it. While this character did that type of thing to an extent, I don't feel that it was enough to fully justify what he was doing. I just found that frustrating.
The love story itself wasn't my favorite either. I felt that there was barely any build-up to it. I get that it was supposed to be a "love at first sight" type of thing, but I just feel that it could've been done differently. The word "inevitable" kept popping in when it came to the love story and the rest of the plot itself. The word "inevitable" seems to be trying to constantly keep connecting the plot to the title and tried showing how all these things in the story are, in fact, inevitable. Things like tragedy, love, and failure are all described in this book as inevitable. While I always love when books show the moment everything comes together and starts to make sense, I feel that the word inevitable was used SO often that it lost all meaningfulness. It just didn't give me that huge emotional feeling that I think it would have if it had begun being used towards the end, rather than right at the beginning. I don't know if that whole train of thought made sense so forgive me if it didn't!
Now I said before that I didn't so much have a problem with the story and more with the characters. What I mean by that is that the story was good, but cliché, and I'm usually completely fine with that type of thing because if it's a cliché, that means it's a good classic. My only condition is that the characters are good, and have some complexity to them. I felt the characters were all so straightforward and so it was sort of hard not to get bored with them.
I know it seems that I completely disliked the book but I really didn't. I did enjoy reading it and there were some moments that I laughed and a couple of times that I felt emotional feelings pertaining to the story. I just don't feel it was super emotionally significant compared to those I've read in the past. I feel terrible saying that, but that's just my opinion. This book probably just won't stand out to me as one of those AMAZING books that I've read.
One thing that I didn't really like was the main character. I just don't feel he was super complex. He was a straightforward and classic tortured character, in my opinion. There wasn't much uniqueness about him for me to enjoy. There were also times that his POV was unnecessarily difficult to read from. I always expect there to be times that I dislike reading from a character, but it was so often in this book, that it made it hard to enjoy things at times. I also feel he was very illogical in his thinking. With characters who feel they need to lie, they have whole reasons and trains of thought that justify it. While this character did that type of thing to an extent, I don't feel that it was enough to fully justify what he was doing. I just found that frustrating.
The love story itself wasn't my favorite either. I felt that there was barely any build-up to it. I get that it was supposed to be a "love at first sight" type of thing, but I just feel that it could've been done differently. The word "inevitable" kept popping in when it came to the love story and the rest of the plot itself. The word "inevitable" seems to be trying to constantly keep connecting the plot to the title and tried showing how all these things in the story are, in fact, inevitable. Things like tragedy, love, and failure are all described in this book as inevitable. While I always love when books show the moment everything comes together and starts to make sense, I feel that the word inevitable was used SO often that it lost all meaningfulness. It just didn't give me that huge emotional feeling that I think it would have if it had begun being used towards the end, rather than right at the beginning. I don't know if that whole train of thought made sense so forgive me if it didn't!
Now I said before that I didn't so much have a problem with the story and more with the characters. What I mean by that is that the story was good, but cliché, and I'm usually completely fine with that type of thing because if it's a cliché, that means it's a good classic. My only condition is that the characters are good, and have some complexity to them. I felt the characters were all so straightforward and so it was sort of hard not to get bored with them.
I know it seems that I completely disliked the book but I really didn't. I did enjoy reading it and there were some moments that I laughed and a couple of times that I felt emotional feelings pertaining to the story. I just don't feel it was super emotionally significant compared to those I've read in the past. I feel terrible saying that, but that's just my opinion. This book probably just won't stand out to me as one of those AMAZING books that I've read.