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677 reviews for:

Give Me a Reason

A.L. Jackson

3.72 AVERAGE

adventurous slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes
dark emotional funny hopeful mysterious sad tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Complicated
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

The way this book was written gave me a new ick
adventurous challenging emotional hopeful sad tense fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I also DNF. I didn't enjoy the story as much as I would have liked to. The burn was very slow it was okay spicy but it was like once they started to hook up it would like stop mid-hook-up and then move on to the next chapter or something that totally didn't have anything to do with what was going on in the story. I also didn't like how he was a " bad boy" but didn't actually have bad boy behavior.... This book left me with major blue balls and I had to move on to another book.Great idea for a story but was poorly executed....

Descriptions/Thoughts make up the bulk of this book. If that's your preference this will do it for you. It was obvious to me who Gage's Mom really was. I think I skimmed over half.

I didn’t even get to 100 pages before I decided I was going to DNF (at pg. 88) because I hated the writing style of the book.

I hate how the mmc talks, props to the author being able to write a character like that but I despised how uneducated and dumb sounding the mmc was. All of his sentences were missing the words, “I”, “The” etc and it was driving me nuts. I couldn’t get past how many frickin adjectives were used to describe literally everything. The sky, his hair, her body, blah blah blah.

I literally cringed every time the fmc called her father “daddy”. It almost seemed like the location should have taken place in the Deep South from how it was written and not in Northern California. It was weird.

I’m rating 2.5 stars because the book itself was insanely well written and I have a feeling the plot and character development was great too I just couldn’t get past the poetry style writing. No actual paragraphs, tons of single word paragraphs for emphasis on the words which was boring the hell out of me. I’m hoping to try this again in the future but it was a no from me for now unfortunately.
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DID NOT FINISH: 56%

I couldn’t listen to Trent talk about his sins and how he’s the devil anymore. It wrecked my soul and put me to sleep. 

“Because I love you. You said I brought your heart back to life, but Eden, you made mine beat for the first time.”
challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense fast-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