moondal514 's review for:

The Bones Beneath My Skin by TJ Klune

1.0

adventurous slow-paced

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From the moment I began to read this book, something about it annoyed the fuck out of me, but I couldn’t quite put my finger on what exactly it was. I think it was the character interactions. I found them to be just sooooo unrealistic in a way that made me unable to immerse myself in this book at all and actually even pissed me off a little.

Alex…oh my fucking god I was ready to murder someone over how he kept attributing Nate’s very logical questions and assumptions to him being a journalist, like no dude I actually don’t think someone has to be inclined towards journalism to want to know why the fuck random strangers broke into their house. Genuinely don’t know why Nate didn’t call the police or Big Eddie or someone on Alex and Art immediately tbh. Or why Alex and Art didn’t immediately skedaddle and go to a different cabin once they realized the one they broke into was already occupied. Nate’s initial panic was logical, but I hated how it gets brushed off by the other characters, and then his panic again when he learns what’s actually up with Alex and Art felt so drawn out it started to really annoy me

. But I kept pushing on because I was just interested enough to want to know exactly where Klune was going with this. As it turns out, the answer was nowhere. The dialogue was so cheesy, the character interactions felt so forced, the romance and found family dynamics were uncompelling, the plot, while it did have it’s moments that kept me just interested enough to read to the end, ultimately it was bland and boring, and the ending was terrible. I also highly disliked how this book gave me a time period of when it was supposed to take place and yet it didn’t feel like it was taking place in the ‘80s at all. Genuinely didn’t get what the point of dating the setting of the book like that was. Just an incredibly disappointing read all around