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lilymathildea 's review for:
If Only
by Melanie Murphy
2.5 stars
This is a summer read, nothing more, nothing less. It's not my kind of read whatsoever so this review is worth what it's worth...
And for what it's worth (and what I remember of it), it felt a lot like Georgia Nicholson's diaries 15 years later. Except the extreme bitchiness isn't cute anymore.
To be perfectly honest I hated the main character, a self pitying child she was ! and soooo jealous and full of clichés. She had me roll my eyes at least a dozen times. But you have to give this much to Melanie she went out of her way to depict a main protagonist in all her flaws.
I did enjoy the Irishness of it all, A LOT (pretty much the only reason I stuck to it till the end). I also thought the characters were all pretty interesting (except Erin, she just pissed me off) even though none were given as much layering as I'd have liked to see (let's face it the book would have been much too long had there been more layers to the characters). And i liked how the thoughts were intertwined in the story (though there were a loooooot and somewhat irrelevant at times).
I was a little annoyed at the obvious and somewhat rushed ending (it's a bit too easy) and felt little let down : I wish the whole "if only" thingamajig had been further exploited.
Anyway, definitely not my type of read.
This is a summer read, nothing more, nothing less. It's not my kind of read whatsoever so this review is worth what it's worth...
And for what it's worth (and what I remember of it), it felt a lot like Georgia Nicholson's diaries 15 years later. Except the extreme bitchiness isn't cute anymore.
To be perfectly honest I hated the main character, a self pitying child she was ! and soooo jealous and full of clichés. She had me roll my eyes at least a dozen times. But you have to give this much to Melanie she went out of her way to depict a main protagonist in all her flaws.
I did enjoy the Irishness of it all, A LOT (pretty much the only reason I stuck to it till the end). I also thought the characters were all pretty interesting (except Erin, she just pissed me off) even though none were given as much layering as I'd have liked to see (let's face it the book would have been much too long had there been more layers to the characters). And i liked how the thoughts were intertwined in the story (though there were a loooooot and somewhat irrelevant at times).
I was a little annoyed at the obvious and somewhat rushed ending (it's a bit too easy) and felt little let down : I wish the whole "if only" thingamajig had been further exploited.
Anyway, definitely not my type of read.