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A review by oashackelford
The Blonde Identity by Ally Carter
2.0
What would you do if you woke up suddenly in Paris and people were shooting at you, but you couldn't remember anything about your life? That's exactly what Alex has to ask herself, or not Alex, because when she meets someone who actually knows Alex, he tells her that she must be Alex's twin sister. Not Alex needs to find a way to stop getting shot at and get back home.
I thought that the premise for this book was really cool and that I was really going to like this, but it ended up being more poorly written Rom-com than action adventure with some romance. I love Ally Carter's YA books and sometimes they are cheesy, but they were always aimed at young adults and it comes with the territory. This, however, read like poorly written action fan fiction by a young person who has never actually met an adult man before.
I was able to start predicting the ends of sentences (while listening to the audiobook) before they ended by just thinking of the cheesiest way the line could be written. I think that the action story had a lot more promise to it, and if Carter had focused on that instead of the Romance, and let the romance just be the B plot, that the story would have been so much richer and more exciting. Instead it felt like the author trying to find a thousand different ways to put the characters into compromising situations, but instead it felt forced instead of earned, and it felt way fake.
Also she wrote the guy character like the world's biggest horn-dog. I don't think a guy who is worried about getting out of a situation alive is lusting after the girl character that often. Occaisionally? Sure, but definitely not every other page and location change. I think realistically his character would have died a lot sooner if he actually did this.
I finished the book because I wanted to know the outcome of the action adventure, but nothing about this book felt really earned. I think with more revision it could have been much better.
I thought that the premise for this book was really cool and that I was really going to like this, but it ended up being more poorly written Rom-com than action adventure with some romance. I love Ally Carter's YA books and sometimes they are cheesy, but they were always aimed at young adults and it comes with the territory. This, however, read like poorly written action fan fiction by a young person who has never actually met an adult man before.
I was able to start predicting the ends of sentences (while listening to the audiobook) before they ended by just thinking of the cheesiest way the line could be written. I think that the action story had a lot more promise to it, and if Carter had focused on that instead of the Romance, and let the romance just be the B plot, that the story would have been so much richer and more exciting. Instead it felt like the author trying to find a thousand different ways to put the characters into compromising situations, but instead it felt forced instead of earned, and it felt way fake.
Also she wrote the guy character like the world's biggest horn-dog. I don't think a guy who is worried about getting out of a situation alive is lusting after the girl character that often. Occaisionally? Sure, but definitely not every other page and location change. I think realistically his character would have died a lot sooner if he actually did this.
I finished the book because I wanted to know the outcome of the action adventure, but nothing about this book felt really earned. I think with more revision it could have been much better.