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Say You'll Remember Me
by Katie McGarry
Rating: 1.5
I wanted to like this book. By the cover and synopsis alone, I went in with pretty good expectations and came out of it so horribly bored.
My first issue: Elle wants to take coding classes. That's great! I just hated the way the author tossed that in there to make her appear nerdy/smart/whatever and then....nothing. It doesn't go anywhere. It annoys me more than it should that it was a big deal to her and then it just pretty much gets forgotten about. She could've mentioned to her parents that the classes can help her with her father's campaign, or his program, or anything else he's got going on politically. It bothers me waaaay more than it shouldn't that she didn't try.
I was a bit bothered by how much Elle seemed to worship her father. Every time she called him a hero or told Drix he's "saving the world" I couldn't help but roll my eyes. Maybe I'd feel the same way if he wasn't such an asshole. He's given me no reason to agree with Elle's opinion or even to see it from her perspective. Also I had a great laugh at the fact that she was surprised that people in politics were dirty. Like ??? Girl, everyone knows politicians are dirty. You’re the daughter of a politician, that shouldn’t even be a surprise. You should know how it works.
I think I impulsively cringed every time they made a remark about how mature she was being. Which I guess makes sense in retrospect because she is pretty childish.
She also seemed to have grown a spine as soon as she realized she was 18. It was like a switch was flipped and it put me off. I didn’t even enjoy her telling her parents off. Her parent’s reactions weren’t even believable to me.
Drix was marginally at better character. But at 17, it seemed like he lived a nonstop rock star lifestyle. I don’t know when he had time to sleep to be honest. It was beyond the realm of believability for me for him to have done everything he claimed to and only be 17/18 years old. It would’ve made more sense if Elle and Drix were college aged.
That's it really.
I got spoiled aboutwhat happens to the dog and my first reaction was “Why am I not surprised?” Seriously though, you put that dog through so much trauma and then have the nerve to kill it off? Really? That’s a bit much for a YA contemporary romance novel, man. Not to mention that it served absolutely no purpose whatsoever. Now that I think about it, you could've had Drix get shot (not killed obviously) and achieve more of a purpose storytelling-wise.
The pacing is terrible, I was bored throughout most of it, and I just honestly didn’t care about how it ended.
Nice cover though. It’s got that going for it.
I wanted to like this book. By the cover and synopsis alone, I went in with pretty good expectations and came out of it so horribly bored.
My first issue: Elle wants to take coding classes. That's great! I just hated the way the author tossed that in there to make her appear nerdy/smart/whatever and then....nothing. It doesn't go anywhere. It annoys me more than it should that it was a big deal to her and then it just pretty much gets forgotten about. She could've mentioned to her parents that the classes can help her with her father's campaign, or his program, or anything else he's got going on politically. It bothers me waaaay more than it shouldn't that she didn't try.
I was a bit bothered by how much Elle seemed to worship her father. Every time she called him a hero or told Drix he's "saving the world" I couldn't help but roll my eyes. Maybe I'd feel the same way if he wasn't such an asshole. He's given me no reason to agree with Elle's opinion or even to see it from her perspective. Also I had a great laugh at the fact that she was surprised that people in politics were dirty. Like ??? Girl, everyone knows politicians are dirty. You’re the daughter of a politician, that shouldn’t even be a surprise. You should know how it works.
I think I impulsively cringed every time they made a remark about how mature she was being. Which I guess makes sense in retrospect because she is pretty childish.
She also seemed to have grown a spine as soon as she realized she was 18. It was like a switch was flipped and it put me off. I didn’t even enjoy her telling her parents off. Her parent’s reactions weren’t even believable to me.
Drix was marginally at better character. But at 17, it seemed like he lived a nonstop rock star lifestyle. I don’t know when he had time to sleep to be honest. It was beyond the realm of believability for me for him to have done everything he claimed to and only be 17/18 years old. It would’ve made more sense if Elle and Drix were college aged.
That's it really.
I got spoiled about
The pacing is terrible, I was bored throughout most of it, and I just honestly didn’t care about how it ended.
Nice cover though. It’s got that going for it.