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mlettus 's review for:
The Ethan I Was Before
by Ali Standish
I wanted to like this book. I wanted this to be a book that I could give to tweens when they wanted a more serious book but are not ready for teen content. This did not happen. I am sure there will be tweens that do like this book, but there was so many things that drove me crazy. The author was trying to do so much that the book's plot was not well written. There were some lists in the book that the main character wrote to help himself calm down and they needed to either be throughout the book or not at all. Same with the story about the wolf. If this had been mentioned more throughout the book it would have made the book better.
One of the biggest problems with this book I had is that the way that the characters were written. The characters that were supposed to be 13 were not written to sound like the kids. The author also wrote very stereotypical (mean girl, weird kid, grumpy grandfather).
Overall I was not impressed and a little disappointed.
One of the biggest problems with this book I had is that the way that the characters were written. The characters that were supposed to be 13 were not written to sound like the kids. The author also wrote very stereotypical (mean girl, weird kid, grumpy grandfather).
Overall I was not impressed and a little disappointed.