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Leah On The Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
2.0
This book made me like book 1 in the series less.
Supposedly a very inclusive book, it uses an awful lot of immature and uneducated tropey stuff that I'd expect to come from the mouths of 12-year-olds.
The main character was a bratty sourpuss who didn't grow or change at all throughout the course of the book. I never cared much for her in book 1, but this was unbearable. I understood what she was supposed to be, but she's 18 years old, not 8, so I found her to be immature and whiny the whole time.
I cannot count on all my fingers and toes how many times the characters said "I don't know". Maybe realistic if one character has a speech quirk like that, but when EVERYONE is saying it all the time, it's way too much and far too noticeable.
Maybe I'm just a soggy old lady (I'm 24), but the sheer drama in these teenager's lives was giving me a headache. It's not that deep, guys. Get over yourselves. Learn to grow up a bit.
Generally, I found the book boring and annoying, and I would have DNF'd had I not been buddy-reading it. Writing style was juvenile and completely unskilled, which just added to my dislike. Maybe young teenagers would like this. I didn't. At all. 2 stars because there were exactly 2 things in the whole book that made sense to me and I liked out of context of these characters, but I cannot remember for the life of me what those things were.
Supposedly a very inclusive book, it uses an awful lot of immature and uneducated tropey stuff that I'd expect to come from the mouths of 12-year-olds.
The main character was a bratty sourpuss who didn't grow or change at all throughout the course of the book. I never cared much for her in book 1, but this was unbearable. I understood what she was supposed to be, but she's 18 years old, not 8, so I found her to be immature and whiny the whole time.
I cannot count on all my fingers and toes how many times the characters said "I don't know". Maybe realistic if one character has a speech quirk like that, but when EVERYONE is saying it all the time, it's way too much and far too noticeable.
Maybe I'm just a soggy old lady (I'm 24), but the sheer drama in these teenager's lives was giving me a headache. It's not that deep, guys. Get over yourselves. Learn to grow up a bit.
Generally, I found the book boring and annoying, and I would have DNF'd had I not been buddy-reading it. Writing style was juvenile and completely unskilled, which just added to my dislike. Maybe young teenagers would like this. I didn't. At all. 2 stars because there were exactly 2 things in the whole book that made sense to me and I liked out of context of these characters, but I cannot remember for the life of me what those things were.