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3.91 AVERAGE
3.91 AVERAGE
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
What a great concept that was unfortunately incredibly boring. I honestly can’t remember being this bored by a book in a long time.
This is one of the worst cases of tell and not show I’ve seen in a book. It was only 300 pages, but it was paragraphs and paragraphs of so much telling and so little dialogue or plot development. It made all the characters so wooden, it was like I was watching someone watching their own life go by, which is just as interesting as it sounds. The only part I fully paid attention was when a mentally 40-year-old woman in a 16-year-old body seduced a 16-year-old boy as if that’s a normal and not completely creepy thing.
I was done with this book at that point, so I ended up skimming the last half of the book where she just time travels over and over. Again, a father-daughter relationship is such an interesting thing to explore, and the fact that I didn’t even remotely care about their relationship was sad and disappointing.
I found Rebecca Serle’s One Italian Summer a far better execution of this kind of concept. I’d recommend that over this any day of the week, so go read that and not this.
This is one of the worst cases of tell and not show I’ve seen in a book. It was only 300 pages, but it was paragraphs and paragraphs of so much telling and so little dialogue or plot development. It made all the characters so wooden, it was like I was watching someone watching their own life go by, which is just as interesting as it sounds. The only part I fully paid attention was when a mentally 40-year-old woman in a 16-year-old body seduced a 16-year-old boy as if that’s a normal and not completely creepy thing.
I was done with this book at that point, so I ended up skimming the last half of the book where she just time travels over and over. Again, a father-daughter relationship is such an interesting thing to explore, and the fact that I didn’t even remotely care about their relationship was sad and disappointing.
I found Rebecca Serle’s One Italian Summer a far better execution of this kind of concept. I’d recommend that over this any day of the week, so go read that and not this.
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
emotional
hopeful
sad
medium-paced
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Books set in NYC always feel like such a love letter to the city. So fun to read and romanticize life there. I feel a little “eh” about the book though. I think science fiction just doesn’t do it for me because it always feels like there are a ton of holes in the story that just don’t make logical sense.
I’ll probably be thinking about this one for a bit. The ending is not what I would’ve wanted, but I think it was the best possible outcome, kind of like when you don’t want to exercise but you know it’s for the best.