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There. I found it. This is the worst book I have ever read in my life.
The writing style was just weird. Almost 300 pages of stream of consciousness of five different characters, and not a single quotation mark.
Also, I think that ellipsis are lame in texts. Let alone in books. How can I read hundreds of pages... when every sentence... ends with three little dreamy dots...?
The protagonists were unbelievable - and not even in the likeable and quirky way The wonderful world of Amelie was unrealistic. This was just plain weird.
For those of you who haven't read it, it tells the story of Angelina and Mann, who randomly meet in an elevator and madly fall in love. But Angelina hides a secret and her brooding alpha male can't live without knowing the truth, so he investigates, stalks Angelina's friend ecc ecc. She finds out, freaks out and becomes a nun.
And that's only half of the plot.
The other half is random flashbacks about the characters, stuff about Island and a poster child with a serious Oedipus's complex and weird quotes from pretentious poems. I feel like the author didn't have a real plan in mind.
But kudos to her, cause she managed to put in one book everything that I hate in terms of plot: here I found instalove, cheese all around and every possible kind of cliches ever written (amnesia, runaway bride, meet cute in elevator, car accident, and I could go on).
I am so glad I am finally done.
I have suffered enough in this life to read one more page of this stuff.
The writing style was just weird. Almost 300 pages of stream of consciousness of five different characters, and not a single quotation mark.
Also, I think that ellipsis are lame in texts. Let alone in books. How can I read hundreds of pages... when every sentence... ends with three little dreamy dots...?
The protagonists were unbelievable - and not even in the likeable and quirky way The wonderful world of Amelie was unrealistic. This was just plain weird.
For those of you who haven't read it, it tells the story of Angelina and Mann, who randomly meet in an elevator and madly fall in love. But Angelina hides a secret and her brooding alpha male can't live without knowing the truth, so he investigates, stalks Angelina's friend ecc ecc. She finds out, freaks out and becomes a nun.
And that's only half of the plot.
The other half is random flashbacks about the characters, stuff about Island and a poster child with a serious Oedipus's complex and weird quotes from pretentious poems. I feel like the author didn't have a real plan in mind.
But kudos to her, cause she managed to put in one book everything that I hate in terms of plot: here I found instalove, cheese all around and every possible kind of cliches ever written (amnesia, runaway bride, meet cute in elevator, car accident, and I could go on).
I am so glad I am finally done.
I have suffered enough in this life to read one more page of this stuff.
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