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A review by freyanne
Defy the Stars by Sophie McKenzie
2.0
the ending of this books pissed me off so fucking much and I’m not even entirely sure why. I’ve read Sophie mckenzie before, I read girl missing and that was a good thriller series but I honestly was not expecting Flynn to die at the end of this series.
I’m going to set the scene for you; I picked up this book series several years ago and I read the first two and a half. I don’t remember why I stopped reading it, I think I just found something better. But a couple days ago I decided to take a break from the book I was reading, because it was getting a lot and I just wanted to read something fluffy and cute, and I vaguely remembered reading this series. I thought fuck it and picked the first book up. I read that in about three hours and I really enjoyed it (slightly more than last time). I thought it was a cute little contemporary romance with some angst. I read the next two books (which I liked slightly less than the first one).
Then I read the last book, and throughout the entire thing I was confused. It suddenly felt incredibly unrealistic to me. It was no longer a cute romance. And then Flynn died. Now I didn’t have much in the way of a connection to any of the characters so it’s not like I felt his death in my soul. I didn’t cry, which is not a good thing because I literally cry at tv ads so not crying at a character death, especially a main character, is an issue.
I read the epilogue about ten minutes ago and then I sat on my bed, not upset, just really pissed off.
I’m not mad at the author, I think she’s a good writer and I’ve enjoyed her other books, but this one. I just. I felt ripped off. Like I went through all of that just for Flynn to die. And in my opinion I thought it was kind of pointless, and unjustified. I suppose it was supposed to be this whole thing, cus River wanted a love in which they would love each other so much they’d die for each other, and welp, she got that. But while reading it, it never occurred to em that there would be an ending where he actually dies. I could not imagine that happening and then it did.
This is just my opinion. I’m not hating on the author for doing this, it just felt like a cop out ending for me.
I’m going to go on with my life pretending there’s only three books in this series.
I’m going to set the scene for you; I picked up this book series several years ago and I read the first two and a half. I don’t remember why I stopped reading it, I think I just found something better. But a couple days ago I decided to take a break from the book I was reading, because it was getting a lot and I just wanted to read something fluffy and cute, and I vaguely remembered reading this series. I thought fuck it and picked the first book up. I read that in about three hours and I really enjoyed it (slightly more than last time). I thought it was a cute little contemporary romance with some angst. I read the next two books (which I liked slightly less than the first one).
Then I read the last book, and throughout the entire thing I was confused. It suddenly felt incredibly unrealistic to me. It was no longer a cute romance. And then Flynn died. Now I didn’t have much in the way of a connection to any of the characters so it’s not like I felt his death in my soul. I didn’t cry, which is not a good thing because I literally cry at tv ads so not crying at a character death, especially a main character, is an issue.
I read the epilogue about ten minutes ago and then I sat on my bed, not upset, just really pissed off.
I’m not mad at the author, I think she’s a good writer and I’ve enjoyed her other books, but this one. I just. I felt ripped off. Like I went through all of that just for Flynn to die. And in my opinion I thought it was kind of pointless, and unjustified. I suppose it was supposed to be this whole thing, cus River wanted a love in which they would love each other so much they’d die for each other, and welp, she got that. But while reading it, it never occurred to em that there would be an ending where he actually dies. I could not imagine that happening and then it did.
This is just my opinion. I’m not hating on the author for doing this, it just felt like a cop out ending for me.
I’m going to go on with my life pretending there’s only three books in this series.