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A review by ajlawford
Meet Me in Outer Space by Melinda Grace
2.0
This book is very short. Not only is it just 250 pages, it only has large margins, large font and generous paragraph spacing. There are a lot of text messages which are formatted so that a few texts take up most of a page. My point is that this is a super quick read.
I’m not surprised that my biggest complaint is that the book is underdeveloped. It’s more like a short story. There was always a big time gap between chapters. The events take place over the space of a semester at college. In each chapter we are thrown into a scene, full of mostly dialogue and the scene ends abruptly before we time travel and are dumped into another scene.
The characters are flat and the plot is interesting enough, it just needed a lot of fleshing out. I found myself bored a lot. I deliberately took this book with me to read when I had to spend all day at the hospital. I figured I was already going to have a shit day, I may as well take a book I had little interest in reading, and force myself to read it as it would have to be better than staring at nothing, right? I thought I would be able to finish it in one day given how short it was. I actually ended up preferring to stare blankly at walls instead of reading this because I was that bored! Over the course of nine hours, I forced myself to get through 2 hours of reading this.
Being a mother of a newly diagnosed disabled child, I thought I might get something out of reading an #ownvoices book from an author with a disability. Not the case. This story really is just a YA Contemporary Romance. Some interesting ableist themes are touched on, but again, my main complaint is that they were underdeveloped.
Also worth noting that I didn’t choose to read this, it is a pick for my bookclub, so I think I’d naturally rate this pretty low. In saying that, sometimes I’ve proven wrong and end up loving books out of my comfort zone. Not so with this one, but if you like super light easy quick YA cheesy romances, then you might like this.
I’m not surprised that my biggest complaint is that the book is underdeveloped. It’s more like a short story. There was always a big time gap between chapters. The events take place over the space of a semester at college. In each chapter we are thrown into a scene, full of mostly dialogue and the scene ends abruptly before we time travel and are dumped into another scene.
The characters are flat and the plot is interesting enough, it just needed a lot of fleshing out. I found myself bored a lot. I deliberately took this book with me to read when I had to spend all day at the hospital. I figured I was already going to have a shit day, I may as well take a book I had little interest in reading, and force myself to read it as it would have to be better than staring at nothing, right? I thought I would be able to finish it in one day given how short it was. I actually ended up preferring to stare blankly at walls instead of reading this because I was that bored! Over the course of nine hours, I forced myself to get through 2 hours of reading this.
Being a mother of a newly diagnosed disabled child, I thought I might get something out of reading an #ownvoices book from an author with a disability. Not the case. This story really is just a YA Contemporary Romance. Some interesting ableist themes are touched on, but again, my main complaint is that they were underdeveloped.
Also worth noting that I didn’t choose to read this, it is a pick for my bookclub, so I think I’d naturally rate this pretty low. In saying that, sometimes I’ve proven wrong and end up loving books out of my comfort zone. Not so with this one, but if you like super light easy quick YA cheesy romances, then you might like this.