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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Honestly I really enjoyed this book. Jude and Clementine were dumb teenagers at time but I will say something was always happening and the reveals at the end were great. Can't wait to read the next book!
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
The best YA books are the ones where you forget you’re reading YA. Books where the writing and story don’t pander to a made up idea of teenagers being completely ridiculous and so emotional that they fight against everyone and everything. A book with nuanced characters not caricatures.
This book was all the worst tropes of YA and the writing was ridiculous. The story line felt so contrived, like things were added in to check off items on a “what to put in a YA story” list.
This book was all the worst tropes of YA and the writing was ridiculous. The story line felt so contrived, like things were added in to check off items on a “what to put in a YA story” list.
- MC who has a difficult relationship with her parent and therefore argues at every little thing with that parent so every single interaction is boringly the same ✅
- MC which has to “go it alone” and “never show weakness” until enough people stick by her that her personality abruptly flips a script and she trusts her new group of friends implicitly ✅
- Fraught romantic relationship where both characters act like pre-programmed automatons who can only have one kind of interaction (she keeps trying to reach him and he keeps pushing her away to “protect her from himself” 🙄) until they work through it in an instant 3/4 of the way through the book ✅
- Repeated danger where the MC puts herself in harms way even for people she doesn’t like so we know that she is morally righteous ✅
Shocking revelation towards the end of the story about MC’s parentage ✅
This book was just so formulaic and the plot was so over the top. It was as if the author threw everything she could think of into the story line and didn’t bother to explain most of it. Like the mating bond- wtf was that? No explanation, all the characters just knew it could happen with a look. Also, the writing was so juvenile it was clear that an adult was writing what they thought teenagers would respond to. Maybe they would but I read lots of YA and YA books don’t have to be that way. It can be well written and still reach teenagers.
The ending was terrible. There was no real resolution. I suppose the author thought she was ending on a cliffhanger but she really was walking away when she couldn’t figure it how to wrap up the million loose threads from the story.Why were Clementine and her friends kept on the island? Not all of them needed to participate in unraveling the tapestry. Once they got rid of the monsters, why didn’t they immediately turn to the oracle guy and demand his story? They just spent the next few hours/days letting him roam around the island unimpeded? How did he get trapped in the tapestry? He just had a random fling with Clementine’s mother? That’s it? What about the mother and her story? She was a Calder but what else? What about the Jean-Jerks? Why did they want the tapestry? What were they doing with it? Nothing indicated they knew how to use it or that there was any way for them to use it. Did they not know that the tapestry was Jude’s? They clearly did since they knew what they were doing when they let the nightmares loose. So it doesn’t make sense they would come to the cottage and insist on having the tapestry while Jude was there. And if the root cellar was Jude’s spot, why did the Jean-Jerks put a lock on it and leave the key somewhere obvious? Jude wouldn’t have done that, he would have kept the key with him. Also, Clementine’s mother was so worried about her when she became unmeshed and when she can’t be found to go through the portal but as soon as it’s possible to get back to the island, she sends Caspian instead? Leaving a ton of plot points unresolved is not a cliffhanger. That just makes me unsatisfied and uninterested in reading the next book.
TL:DR I found this book tiresome.
The ending was terrible. There was no real resolution. I suppose the author thought she was ending on a cliffhanger but she really was walking away when she couldn’t figure it how to wrap up the million loose threads from the story.
TL:DR I found this book tiresome.
dark
emotional
slow-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
adventurous
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I can see why people like this book, but I don't quite see why it's a bestseller.
I would have loved it if it turned out that all of it was due to Jude's inability to control his powers. That'd be deep.
It also felt like the author was showing her age a bit with how she wrote her teenagers, and even more so when--in the audiobook-- "sexy" Jude (17 years old) sounded like a 40 year old cowboy. The plot and conflict is written well enough, but it felt like it took long enough for things to truly get exciting before we get to the epilogue
It also felt like the author was showing her age a bit with how she wrote her teenagers, and even more so when--in the audiobook-- "sexy" Jude (17 years old) sounded like a 40 year old cowboy. The plot and conflict is written well enough, but it felt like it took long enough for things to truly get exciting before we get to the epilogue
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
reflective
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
DNF at about 12%.
First, I haven't read Crave. I decided to give this one a shot because the summary sounded pretty cool and I figured, she must have better writing in a second series, right?
Well, it sounds like even big Crave fans don't like this book? Oops.
I can 100% tell why. There's like...nothing here? It's so chaotic that I have ZERO idea what's even going on. The reader is thrown into the world with pretty much no world building at all. Then it's just random mishaps and I'm so utterly confused...
And so that's where I decide to go bye bye.
First, I haven't read Crave. I decided to give this one a shot because the summary sounded pretty cool and I figured, she must have better writing in a second series, right?
Well, it sounds like even big Crave fans don't like this book? Oops.
I can 100% tell why. There's like...nothing here? It's so chaotic that I have ZERO idea what's even going on. The reader is thrown into the world with pretty much no world building at all. Then it's just random mishaps and I'm so utterly confused...
And so that's where I decide to go bye bye.