A review by lattelauren
Hating Alison Ashley by Robin Klein

1.0

I had high expectations for this book as this is one that is considered a classic Australian children’s book. Unfortunately, this counts as one of my least favourite books of all time. I enjoyed nothing about this book or my experience reading it and despite the short-length, it was a struggle to finish. I was familiar with the general story, having seen the film based on this book many times. I found the film to be quite average, and my feeling was the story would likely work better with younger characters as the film’s characters were around 15 while the book characters were about 11-12. Despite this, the book did not work at all for me. I felt that while the behaviour made more sense with this age cohort, it actually failed to make the characters any more relatable. Everything in this book was annoying. I hated every single character in this book and I was not interested in the plot whatsoever. The problem is with this book is that the story itself actually has no plot. It seems like a series of semi-related events with nothing happening or anything to tie these events together adequately. In my opinion, if you are interested in the story, I would watch the movie as I got much more enjoyment from that than reading this book.