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A review by eesh25
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
1.0
This book was... really bad.
There were so many things that bugged me about this book. Most of all was the writing.
Rick Riordan once said that you start reading a book because you find the sunopsis interesting but you continue reading it for the writing. And if the writing is bad, then you won't enjoy it, no matter what. That's what happened in this case.
I had a really hard time reading it. I just couldn't do it. Lara Jean was not only annoying, but she sounded like she was 10, instead of 16 or 17. And it didn't change at all. I only got to six chapters (in two sittings because I couldn't read more than a few pages at a time) and then I started skimming through it. I honestly wanted to stop reading since I didn't care one bit but this was for a reading challenge and I couldn't "DNF" it.
I think Lara's voice, how childish she sounded, was the main problem. But there was also the fact that the plot was silly and the characters lacked personality. Kitty was the younger sister and that's her main trait. Chris was just there, I think, for contrast, because she's so different from Lara Jean. She was shown to be a slut and not much more. Margo was annoying, Daddy was a father. See, all the characters were unidimentional. I didn't like them.
Overall, I just don't get the hype.
There were so many things that bugged me about this book. Most of all was the writing.
Rick Riordan once said that you start reading a book because you find the sunopsis interesting but you continue reading it for the writing. And if the writing is bad, then you won't enjoy it, no matter what. That's what happened in this case.
I had a really hard time reading it. I just couldn't do it. Lara Jean was not only annoying, but she sounded like she was 10, instead of 16 or 17. And it didn't change at all. I only got to six chapters (in two sittings because I couldn't read more than a few pages at a time) and then I started skimming through it. I honestly wanted to stop reading since I didn't care one bit but this was for a reading challenge and I couldn't "DNF" it.
I think Lara's voice, how childish she sounded, was the main problem. But there was also the fact that the plot was silly and the characters lacked personality. Kitty was the younger sister and that's her main trait. Chris was just there, I think, for contrast, because she's so different from Lara Jean. She was shown to be a slut and not much more. Margo was annoying, Daddy was a father. See, all the characters were unidimentional. I didn't like them.
Overall, I just don't get the hype.