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Loving Mr. Daniels
by Brittainy C. Cherry
Ummm. I'm not sure. This kinda reminds me of Romeo & Juliet - and not in a good way.
I know the story doesn't have much in common with R & J but there were some very annoying similarities:
• Death. Yup, in this book there is also an insane amount of people dying or already dead and nope I didn't think this was necessary for the plot. It freaking annoyed me to be honest.
• A forbidden love. Quite alright, nothing to complain about here.
• INSTA - LOVE. Yeah, this is just exactly like in Romeo & Juliet. They see each other, talk to each other, kiss and the same night they know they're destined for each other.
• The cheesiness, which also makes everything very hard to believe. I don't think I need to explain anything about this.
A few things that annoyed me that have got little or nothing to do with Romeo & Juliet:
• Ashlyn (the protagonist) cries the whole
freaking time. I didn't even bother counting, but let me tell you: she always cries. And yes I guess she's grieving and all but still. That doesn't mean she has to cry 24/7 for months. Ughhh.
• Hailey and Ryan (the kinda like step siblings of Ashlyn's). I mean SERIOUSLY?! Anymore clichés please? The overtly nice girl running after her cheating bastard of a boyfriend and her brother the perfect gay best friend. Haha. Some more originality please.
• Last but most important:
How this novel was so ambitious and wanted to be about simply everything. Death and grief and guilt, the obligatory bucket list by a dead loved one, dad issues, mom issues, drug issues, alcoholism, coping techniques, Shakespeare, writing (becoming a novelist), music (being a musician), extreme forms of religious belief, dealing with being gay aka coming out or not coming out, twins, suicide, a teacher-student-relationship.....
It was just too much. Well, at least for me. And I didn't even like the romance but all this plot background (too much as already mentioned) just made it worse.
I know the story doesn't have much in common with R & J but there were some very annoying similarities:
• Death. Yup, in this book there is also an insane amount of people dying or already dead and nope I didn't think this was necessary for the plot. It freaking annoyed me to be honest.
• A forbidden love. Quite alright, nothing to complain about here.
• INSTA - LOVE. Yeah, this is just exactly like in Romeo & Juliet. They see each other, talk to each other, kiss and the same night they know they're destined for each other.
• The cheesiness, which also makes everything very hard to believe. I don't think I need to explain anything about this.
A few things that annoyed me that have got little or nothing to do with Romeo & Juliet:
• Ashlyn (the protagonist) cries the whole
freaking time. I didn't even bother counting, but let me tell you: she always cries. And yes I guess she's grieving and all but still. That doesn't mean she has to cry 24/7 for months. Ughhh.
• Hailey and Ryan (the kinda like step siblings of Ashlyn's). I mean SERIOUSLY?! Anymore clichés please? The overtly nice girl running after her cheating bastard of a boyfriend and her brother the perfect gay best friend. Haha. Some more originality please.
• Last but most important:
How this novel was so ambitious and wanted to be about simply everything. Death and grief and guilt, the obligatory bucket list by a dead loved one, dad issues, mom issues, drug issues, alcoholism, coping techniques, Shakespeare, writing (becoming a novelist), music (being a musician), extreme forms of religious belief, dealing with being gay aka coming out or not coming out, twins, suicide, a teacher-student-relationship.....
It was just too much. Well, at least for me. And I didn't even like the romance but all this plot background (too much as already mentioned) just made it worse.