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Time for another one star review where I rant, rave, and consider never reading again! Huzzah!
I'm trying to start taking notes on how I'm feeling while reading, and this was test case 1. I want to see if it changes how I review if I can go back and see little bits of how I felt at the beginning and at the end.
A one-word summary of my feelings during this book: rage.
Oh book, how I hated thee. Let me count the ways:
- opening with vague references to "him", "his plans", and "we're the only ones who can stop him". I could have done without the prologue, honestly.
- Gwyn herself has about as much personality as a white crayon, but she might be okay if she didn't fall for Gideon while he's being unfairly mean to her all the time?? Yes, nothing makes a boy sexier than being rude for no reason and saying he knows "girls like you"
- the fact that Gwyn doesn't tell anyone she can time travel. Normal if this book didn't have her family being ALL TIME TRAVEL, ALL DAY. Like???? The fuck???
- withholding information as plot. it's not a plot. it's fucking lazy and infuriating. In the immortal words of this book - "she hates all this mystery mongering". You're right. She does. Except she is me, hating this book.
- the enemies to lovers with Gideon, which I called before we'd even been introduced to him properly. if you're going to use an overdone, mostly shitty trope, at least make it believable? instead we have Gideon being an absolute eel until all of a sudden he's kissing our MC. Absolutely believable. Definitely.
-still lowkey angry this wasn't a secret romance between Gwyneth and Lesley
- pitting Charlotte and Gwyneth against each other constantly + Gwyneth being the plain-Jane, not special one while Charlotte is the ulta-beautiful, special flower. Absolute YAWN. Are we really pitting women against each still?
- a sub-point of the previous one, but I have a hard time finding Charlotte's behavior believable. She's painted as completely insufferable once Gwyn's found to have the gene. Making her even worse than Gwyn is just a piss-poor attempt to make Gwyn likable. (It doesn't work.)
- Gwyn is meant to be 16 or 17, but she reads like she's 11 or 12. She uses "Miss Know-It-All" as an insult. And makes a weirdly phrased "ants in her pants" joke in regards to Charlotte time-travelling. The voice did not read as a 16-year old, even a naive one.
By 75% of the way through, nothing had happened except information withholding and Gideon being unbearable.
By 80% I nearly DNFed, but kept going out of pure spite.
Please pray for me as I read the next two books. I should just not but I can't bring myself to read 1/3 of a trilogy.
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3/19/19: Wow everyone likes this book and I hated it so much I took notes on how much I hated it
Rtc
I'm trying to start taking notes on how I'm feeling while reading, and this was test case 1. I want to see if it changes how I review if I can go back and see little bits of how I felt at the beginning and at the end.
A one-word summary of my feelings during this book: rage.
Oh book, how I hated thee. Let me count the ways:
- opening with vague references to "him", "his plans", and "we're the only ones who can stop him". I could have done without the prologue, honestly.
- Gwyn herself has about as much personality as a white crayon, but she might be okay if she didn't fall for Gideon while he's being unfairly mean to her all the time?? Yes, nothing makes a boy sexier than being rude for no reason and saying he knows "girls like you"
- the fact that Gwyn doesn't tell anyone she can time travel. Normal if this book didn't have her family being ALL TIME TRAVEL, ALL DAY. Like???? The fuck???
- withholding information as plot. it's not a plot. it's fucking lazy and infuriating. In the immortal words of this book - "she hates all this mystery mongering". You're right. She does. Except she is me, hating this book.
- the enemies to lovers with Gideon, which I called before we'd even been introduced to him properly. if you're going to use an overdone, mostly shitty trope, at least make it believable? instead we have Gideon being an absolute eel until all of a sudden he's kissing our MC. Absolutely believable. Definitely.
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- pitting Charlotte and Gwyneth against each other constantly + Gwyneth being the plain-Jane, not special one while Charlotte is the ulta-beautiful, special flower. Absolute YAWN. Are we really pitting women against each still?
- a sub-point of the previous one, but I have a hard time finding Charlotte's behavior believable. She's painted as completely insufferable once Gwyn's found to have the gene. Making her even worse than Gwyn is just a piss-poor attempt to make Gwyn likable. (It doesn't work.)
- Gwyn is meant to be 16 or 17, but she reads like she's 11 or 12. She uses "Miss Know-It-All" as an insult. And makes a weirdly phrased "ants in her pants" joke in regards to Charlotte time-travelling. The voice did not read as a 16-year old, even a naive one.
By 75% of the way through, nothing had happened except information withholding and Gideon being unbearable.
By 80% I nearly DNFed, but kept going out of pure spite.
Please pray for me as I read the next two books. I should just not but I can't bring myself to read 1/3 of a trilogy.
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3/19/19: Wow everyone likes this book and I hated it so much I took notes on how much I hated it
Rtc