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2.86 AVERAGE
2.86 AVERAGE
I stopped reading Lang Leav books because of this one. I read this book 2 years ago and I can’t help but cringe every time I think about about how terrible it was! Now I just had to write a review to get it out of my system. I literally just wasted my time reading this. Everything seemed so forced about the book, heck even I had to push myself through finishing it hoping that it would get less annoying (also bc it was on the pricer side). I don’t understand how anyone could like this book. At all. Never thought I could dislike a book this much lol but 1 star for the effort I guess
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
emotional
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
***0.01 stars****
The overall book was not good, bad would be an understatement. A website suggested this book to me, and after finishing it, I feel like that was a personal attack.
There was no plot. There were just a bunch of events happening around each other that were loosely connected. The secret/lie was super upsetting, and holding off revealing what it was was a bad decision on the writer's part. I hated the story, hated the main character even more. She was garbage, and it was upsetting that everyone's lives were crumbling because of her lie and she was the one with the best outcome. I didn't like her at all, and everyone that reassured her that none of it was her fault upset me more. What upset me the most (outside of her lie) was that anxiety and the love were used to justify how horrid she was to everyone around her.
The diary entry revealing that Ana was bad to Rad was almost used as justification for everything the poor girl went through. Something was clearly wrong with her, but there was no reason for her to be made the main villain when Audrey clearly was the problem.
The story had no well defined characters, in fact some characters were essentially the same thing, with the only differences being that they were in different locations. For the most part this book was a bunch of trauma bonding glued together with the notion that "love" concurs all. The therapist should lose her license because she was horrible.
Her lie cost several people their lives, and its sickening that she had no consequences for it. I keep thinking about how messed up it is that someone would create a lie like that to liven things up. The more I recall the book, the more I dislike it. I really hope that the writer has gotten better after this book, but personally I don't think I will be reading anything else from her.
**** It was a trash plot with anxiety, panic attacks, sex and "love" tossed in for a little razzle dazzle****
The overall book was not good, bad would be an understatement. A website suggested this book to me, and after finishing it, I feel like that was a personal attack.
There was no plot. There were just a bunch of events happening around each other that were loosely connected. The secret/lie was super upsetting, and holding off revealing what it was was a bad decision on the writer's part. I hated the story, hated the main character even more. She was garbage, and it was upsetting that everyone's lives were crumbling because of her lie and she was the one with the best outcome. I didn't like her at all, and everyone that reassured her that none of it was her fault upset me more. What upset me the most (outside of her lie) was that anxiety and the love were used to justify how horrid she was to everyone around her.
The diary entry revealing that Ana was bad to Rad was almost used as justification for everything the poor girl went through. Something was clearly wrong with her, but there was no reason for her to be made the main villain when Audrey clearly was the problem.
The story had no well defined characters, in fact some characters were essentially the same thing, with the only differences being that they were in different locations. For the most part this book was a bunch of trauma bonding glued together with the notion that "love" concurs all. The therapist should lose her license because she was horrible.
Her lie cost several people their lives, and its sickening that she had no consequences for it. I keep thinking about how messed up it is that someone would create a lie like that to liven things up. The more I recall the book, the more I dislike it. I really hope that the writer has gotten better after this book, but personally I don't think I will be reading anything else from her.
**** It was a trash plot with anxiety, panic attacks, sex and "love" tossed in for a little razzle dazzle****
Este é, de verdade, um dos piores livros que eu já li na minha vida. Fiz questão de terminar porque era um plot interessante e eu fiquei com esperanças de que ia haver alguma redenção no final. Não houve. Ele é uma merda. Parece que você tá lendo uma fantasia punheteira de uma garota de catorze anos que fica imaginando como vai ser a vida depois do ensino médio. Eu não acredito que gastei dinheiro com isso. Não gastem dinheiro com isso. Além de a história ser péssima, a escrita é terrível. Não percam o tempo de vocês. Eu jamais escrevo nada sobre os livros, mas esse é tão ruim que eu precisava ventilar minha raiva.
Because of this book, I avoided picking books by their covers. The cover looked nice and the it had a nice snippets and then boom, totally did not like it. After reading this, I had a reading slump. I'd read it again just to get mad at Audrey. Her character was terrible.
Started off with really beautiful writing and went downhill from there.
dark
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The synopsis doesn't give away much about the book, the only thing I knew about the book was that it's about mental health and that's one of the reasons why I picked this book.
The book follows an eighteen-year-old Audrey who is encountering a series of panic attacks after the death of her classmate Ana due to a lie that she told her friends. In sad gives [a: Lang Leav|7012565|Lang Leav|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1386062549p2/7012565.jpg] beautifully demonstrates the issues of panic attacks and how they fully control the life of a person suffering from them.
When she goes to Ana's funeral she meets ad, Ana's boyfriend and they develop feelings for each other.
I really liked how Lang Leav wrote the book in a poetic way filled with many heartwarming quotes, which I couldn't help but annotate all.
But I do have conflicting thoughts about liking characters, like at some point when I start liking the character on the next page I would hate them. I neither didn't like the turn of events, nor the ending.
The book follows an eighteen-year-old Audrey who is encountering a series of panic attacks after the death of her classmate Ana due to a lie that she told her friends. In sad gives [a: Lang Leav|7012565|Lang Leav|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1386062549p2/7012565.jpg] beautifully demonstrates the issues of panic attacks and how they fully control the life of a person suffering from them.
When she goes to Ana's funeral she meets ad, Ana's boyfriend and they develop feelings for each other.
I really liked how Lang Leav wrote the book in a poetic way filled with many heartwarming quotes, which I couldn't help but annotate all.
But I do have conflicting thoughts about liking characters, like at some point when I start liking the character on the next page I would hate them. I neither didn't like the turn of events, nor the ending.
adventurous
dark
emotional
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes