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A review by ladytiara
Abandon by Meg Cabot
3.0
Abandon's heroine Pierce Oliviera doesn't have the easiest life. Two years ago, she died and then came back from the dead, and everything has been wrong ever since. Her mother blames her father for her death, and they are in the midst of a messy divorce. There's a mysterious guy named John who is connected to her death and who shows up whenever things seem messiest in her life. Her mother has uprooted her to a small island in Florida, and Pierce is trying to start her life over again, but she's dealing with a lot of baggage and John is there once again.
Abandon is a bit hard to review. On the one hand, it's by the ever reliable Meg Cabot, and it has some good moments. But there were some flaws that got in the way of my enjoyment of the book.
The first half of the book is mostly flashbacks, gradually telling the story of how Pierce died and what went wrong after she came back. Sometimes I enjoy flashbacks, but in this case, the format didn't work for me because there were so many flashbacks that I didn't really feel connected to the characters in the present. When the action returned to the present, I didn't feel all that interested. Then there was a huge info dump that slowed down the pacing. However, once that was over, the book really picked up steam, and the last 100 pages were much better. At that point, I didn't want to put it down.
Pierce is a good main character, and I cared about her struggle to fix the mess that her life has become. The romance has potential, although there's a slightly creepy aspect to it (although it did feel less creepy toward the end of the book). Despite the flaws in this book, Cabot has laid a good foundation for her story, and I will definitely read the next book in the trilogy.
(I received a copy of this book from Amazon Vine.)
Abandon is a bit hard to review. On the one hand, it's by the ever reliable Meg Cabot, and it has some good moments. But there were some flaws that got in the way of my enjoyment of the book.
The first half of the book is mostly flashbacks, gradually telling the story of how Pierce died and what went wrong after she came back. Sometimes I enjoy flashbacks, but in this case, the format didn't work for me because there were so many flashbacks that I didn't really feel connected to the characters in the present. When the action returned to the present, I didn't feel all that interested. Then there was a huge info dump that slowed down the pacing. However, once that was over, the book really picked up steam, and the last 100 pages were much better. At that point, I didn't want to put it down.
Pierce is a good main character, and I cared about her struggle to fix the mess that her life has become. The romance has potential, although there's a slightly creepy aspect to it (although it did feel less creepy toward the end of the book). Despite the flaws in this book, Cabot has laid a good foundation for her story, and I will definitely read the next book in the trilogy.
(I received a copy of this book from Amazon Vine.)