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_bunnybear_ 's review for:
Stranger Than Fanfiction
by Chris Colfer
In the beginning, I felt like this book had a lot of promise. I really liked Colfer's writing style and I was instantly swept away by his easy sense of humor and prose that never seemed to bog the story down.
There were parts I really liked, don't get me wrong, but the book left me feeling overall unsatisfied. A book like this needs to be driven by characters and dialogue, but I felt like the characters were based around one major conflict in their life and then were left alone altogether.
Seriously though, of all the characters, I really hated Topher the most. No, he isn't annoying or anything, but I don't think I can concretely name one personality trait of his and he didn't even really have a conflict. He didn't even seem consistent throughout the story.
Mo's main struggle is that she wants to go to into a different field than her strict father will allow(which, hello? Major Asian stereotype) which is a fact that's mentioned maybe three times throughout the entire book?
I also think the characters could've grown throughout the book. Instead, the only real "transformation" they go through is telling their loved ones their secrets, which could work if the novel was more suspenseful or if we didn't know their secrets from the very beginning.
So I guess I kind of loved it. Kind of didn't
There were parts I really liked, don't get me wrong, but the book left me feeling overall unsatisfied. A book like this needs to be driven by characters and dialogue, but I felt like the characters were based around one major conflict in their life and then were left alone altogether.
Seriously though, of all the characters, I really hated Topher the most. No, he isn't annoying or anything, but I don't think I can concretely name one personality trait of his and he didn't even really have a conflict. He didn't even seem consistent throughout the story.
Mo's main struggle is that she wants to go to into a different field than her strict father will allow(which, hello? Major Asian stereotype) which is a fact that's mentioned maybe three times throughout the entire book?
I also think the characters could've grown throughout the book. Instead, the only real "transformation" they go through is telling their loved ones their secrets, which could work if the novel was more suspenseful or if we didn't know their secrets from the very beginning.
So I guess I kind of loved it. Kind of didn't