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Zac and Mia
by A.J. Betts
A poor Australian imitation of “The Fault in our Stars”.
Mia is entirely unlikable at the beginning of the book, a selfish, immature teenager. Her personality is an abundance of contradictions, from being able to cross the country in a bus on crutches but unable to climb up to the top bunk in a hostel, wasting her last $25.
That is not the only incongruity in the story - a lawyer would never give narcotics to another person. Infections spread much faster than the one that festered in Mia’s leg until she was conveniently “found” by Nina. Who has the audacity to show up at someone’s house in the middle of the night and demand they empty your bank account? And what kind of a teenager would listen? It is completely implausible that Mia’s mother would not let leak to her community that her ankle issues were due to cancer, not a netball injury. Mia’s 3-month transformation into a completely different person is also hard to believe.
Almost every step of the novel was predictable, from Mia’s amputation to her showing up at Zach’s house, to Zach relapsing.
Stick with the Fault in your Stars unless it’s important to you that your books are set in Western Australia.
Mia is entirely unlikable at the beginning of the book, a selfish, immature teenager. Her personality is an abundance of contradictions, from being able to cross the country in a bus on crutches but unable to climb up to the top bunk in a hostel, wasting her last $25.
That is not the only incongruity in the story - a lawyer would never give narcotics to another person. Infections spread much faster than the one that festered in Mia’s leg until she was conveniently “found” by Nina. Who has the audacity to show up at someone’s house in the middle of the night and demand they empty your bank account? And what kind of a teenager would listen? It is completely implausible that Mia’s mother would not let leak to her community that her ankle issues were due to cancer, not a netball injury. Mia’s 3-month transformation into a completely different person is also hard to believe.
Almost every step of the novel was predictable, from Mia’s amputation to her showing up at Zach’s house, to Zach relapsing.
Stick with the Fault in your Stars unless it’s important to you that your books are set in Western Australia.