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3.64 AVERAGE
3.64 AVERAGE
Still one of my favorite books ever
read 12/27/2014 12/28/2014
DNF at 5%
Yes, 5%..because with only five percent read, there was:
_Clumsy narration, if Trace is such a genius i was expecting something more fluent than this:
The buildings were huge. Everything was built in old stone and brick. I mean, I’d seen pictures, but they did not even come close to reality. The dorms looked like ritzy hotels.
_Overabuse of cheesiness....
I gave grandpa a watery smile as he reached across the console and grasped my hand within his large worn one. He’d sacrificed everything for me, so I was going to do this for him, for grandma. It may sound silly but being an only child I felt this immense need to take care of him now that grandma was gone, and the only way I could see myself doing that was getting a good job and making him proud. I wasn’t sure about his retirement, or about anything, and I wanted to be. I wanted to take care of him, like he took care of me.
He was my rock, and now it was my turn to be his.
Grandpa winked and squeezed my hand again. He was always so perceptive. I could tell he knew I was thinking about grandma
Also, the same old patterns when new girl(or boy) enters a college have become tiresome:
Disdain thrown in by the girls..
Provocation done by the boys...
BUT....what i can't force myself to read is sexual harassment situations.
It is said that Trace was home schooled...therefore she is seen as this innocent, poor little girl who can't defend herself against this f****k!
They only met, and he's doing and saying this??
“No,” Nixon answered for Chase. This time his touch was smooth as he caressed my arm. I tried to jerk away. His face lit up with a smile, and honestly, it was like staring at a fallen angel. Nixon was gorgeous. He was an ass, but he was a gorgeous ass. “You feel this?”
His hand continued moving up my arm until he reached my shoulder, and then his hand moved to my neck and his thumb grazed my trembling lips. “Memorize it now, because as of this moment, you
can’t touch us. We are untouchable. If you as much as sneeze in our direction, if you as much breathe the same air in my atmosphere, I will make your life hell. This touch, what you feel against your skin, will be the only time you feel another human being as powerful as me near you. So like I said, feel it, remember it, and maybe one day, your brain will do you the supreme favor of forgetting what it felt like to have someone like me touching you. Then, and only then, will
you be able to be happy with some mediocre boyfriend and pathetic life.”
NO!
I'm afraid my brain refuses to read this!
Trace is picked, in a lottery, to go to a very elite school. But once she gets there, she realizes college sucks. There are things about her past that she has no idea. But she learns who she is and where she comes from, but not without heartbreak and pain.
Nixon is the resident bad boy boss. He rules the school and every lets him. When he sets his sights on Trace, her life will never be the same.
Some parts were a little unbelievable, since they're in college, but I'm sure similar things happen, only without the guns. :)
I will read the next one though. I MUST know what happens!!!
P.s. percentage system is better than the star system, thus the reason why I decided to use it in all my ratings.
This bullying thing is getting really really old for me, but I'll talk about that later.
This book was so unrealistic, I was rolling my eyes and shaking my head every single page. I mean, I wasn't expecting an accurate depiction of the mafia, but some things about this book were just off. A bunch of twenty something year olds who control the entire school, I mean everything about the school. They oversee the school lunch periods, the key cards, the gym and generally keep the student body in check. For a bunch of mafia overlords, they seem to have enough time on their hands pursuing trivial nonsense. Again, I don't understand how they have more power than the Dean?? I get their parents are supposed to be powerful and scary but isn't the Dean himself a the leader of the De Langes family?
When I first started the book, I got the impression that I was reading about high school seniors, now imagine my shock when I found out they were actually in college. As in Eagle Elite is a freaking college? Great. Now would someone please explain to me why college students have uniforms? I don't know if this is a thing in America, but I've never imagined college students who are actually working towards a degree wearing uniforms and having lunch periods. It just seemed like the author badly wanted to write about high school kids but thought it would be inappropriate to write about kids in HS doing drugs, sex, prostitution rings (in Phoenix's case), and carrying enough arms and ammo to rival that of a terrorist group, so she decided to switch elements instead. That did not work at all. It just made me really confused and wondering half the time what the heck I was reading.
The flow of the book was off as well. What on earth was Luca Nikolasi doing on campus? And no one was suspicious? So many things wrong with this book, I can't begin to explain. The slut shaming? The rape culture woven into the story? The bullying?
Now the bullying. I get that the mafia trope is dark and evil and everything not nice, but can we not romanticize bullying for the love of god! Bullying is not cute. Nixon bullies Trace and says he's doing it to protect her, otherwise the other students would destroy her?? I cannot roll my eyes hard enough at this. You want to protect her from what?? And he didn't enough know her true identity at this point so this was just unnecessary verbal and emotional abuse and cruelty. And he has the actual audacity to get jealous when he sees her with his friend, Chase. After everything he did to her?
This brings me to our damsel in distress, Trace. I've never read about a more dumb protagonist in my entire life. She's so clueless, so annoying and soft as fuck. Always blushing and breathless, she doesn't stand up for herself, doesn't even try my god! When she's faced with something she just runs away in tears, grow a spine sis! I don't know what the author was attempting with this character, but it was a big F. How do you just take what everyone throws at you? Takes crap from Nixon, stupid ass Chase, Phoenix, the other students, even her own grandfather, who lied to her about...well, EVERYTHING!
Then of course, Nixon and Chase start to fall for her and she doesn't even question their 360° behavior. Even if their feelings are genuine, how do you just accept that after everything they put you through? The humiliation? Every single character was problematic, Nixon, Trace, Mo, Mil, Phoenix, Chase, even her grandfather.
The multiple POVs was also disorienting. I don't need to know what is going on in all their empty heads. I hope the next book is better.