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A review by chloesumner1317
Rosebush by Michele Jaffe
3.0
I absolutely adored the descriptions that Jaffe used in this book. The first few pages about the depiction of Jane in the rosebush was beautiful. However, the beauty didn't quite carry through the story as we were led on a pretty creepy journey. And since I read this basically in the middle of the night I was a little spooked.
Jane is a flawed main character. Not only are we getting her perspective of everything in pieces, as she remembers it, but she's kind of hallucinating at the same time. And then she has character flaws like always trying to please people, and being a really really good secret keeper, which is not always a good thing. And I got really annoyed at how she basically kissed every guy in the book, even as she was incapacitated in the hospital. Like, really? You're even REMOTELY thinking about that?
I could understand why Jane was upset with her mother, and how she felt like her mother was always putting her career in front of her family. Annie was adorable and how every 7 year old should be. Joe was a little questionable with his mob connotations but was an ok guy by me.
Side note: I HATE HATE HATE the Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" so this book got downgraded for using it
Langley and Kate always did seem a little off to me. Kate initially much more so than Langley, but the tables turned as we discovered that Langley had many more secrets to hide than Kate.
I applaud the bicuriousness presented in the work. Not many authors have enough balls to do that.
Ugh. All of the boys in this book were not attractive to me at all. David was a controlling stoner, Ollie was just crazy, Scott was SCARY and I never really liked his opinion on things, and Pete was just kind of off the whole time.
There were numerous plot twists I didn't see coming at all, which I appreciated. But overall the characters just didn't sit right with me.
Jane is a flawed main character. Not only are we getting her perspective of everything in pieces, as she remembers it, but she's kind of hallucinating at the same time. And then she has character flaws like always trying to please people, and being a really really good secret keeper, which is not always a good thing. And I got really annoyed at how she basically kissed every guy in the book, even as she was incapacitated in the hospital. Like, really? You're even REMOTELY thinking about that?
I could understand why Jane was upset with her mother, and how she felt like her mother was always putting her career in front of her family. Annie was adorable and how every 7 year old should be. Joe was a little questionable with his mob connotations but was an ok guy by me.
Side note: I HATE HATE HATE the Frost poem "The Road Not Taken" so this book got downgraded for using it
Langley and Kate always did seem a little off to me. Kate initially much more so than Langley, but the tables turned as we discovered that Langley had many more secrets to hide than Kate.
I applaud the bicuriousness presented in the work. Not many authors have enough balls to do that.
Ugh. All of the boys in this book were not attractive to me at all. David was a controlling stoner, Ollie was just crazy, Scott was SCARY and I never really liked his opinion on things, and Pete was just kind of off the whole time.
There were numerous plot twists I didn't see coming at all, which I appreciated. But overall the characters just didn't sit right with me.