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amarettto 's review for:
Run on Red
by Noelle W. Ihli
It was fine. I started out very hopeful for this to be a good one because the synopsis looked interesting and it jumped straight into the action. I was hooked. Unfortunately, most of the excitement in this book is in the first 20 pages, and then it's chapter after chapter of basically the same thing. Endless descriptions of their cuts and scrapes, and running around. There was literally nothing interesting about any of the characters and the plot was extremely superficial. I was waiting for the end to redeem the whole book and the ending was literally "And then the police arrived and saved the day the end". I audibly went "what?!" because all of that concluded in about 2 pages.
Going back to the characters being uninteresting thing... Tony was arguably the worst of them all. It felt like the author didn't even try. His deal was basically 'bad' to 'maybe good' to 'back to bad' and it felt pointless. The prompt had lots of potential. A deserted highway at night is honestly my favorite eerie scenario to imagine and there could have been such a clever plot crafted around it. Instead, we got dumb teenagers, a case of mistaken identity, no motives, and 200 pages of repetitive conversations and descriptions, and that saddened me.
Going back to the characters being uninteresting thing... Tony was arguably the worst of them all. It felt like the author didn't even try. His deal was basically 'bad' to 'maybe good' to 'back to bad' and it felt pointless. The prompt had lots of potential. A deserted highway at night is honestly my favorite eerie scenario to imagine and there could have been such a clever plot crafted around it. Instead, we got dumb teenagers, a case of mistaken identity, no motives, and 200 pages of repetitive conversations and descriptions, and that saddened me.