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A review by magikspells
Unhinged by A.G. Howard
3.0
IDK! I just don't know. Warning, crazy rant to follow.
I have a lot of issues with this book. I had made a shelf, it would be 'love-hate' because I don't know what to feel. I didn't hate this book, because honestly I didn't hate the last one. I didn't love it either. I just sort of liked and hated it at the same time.
Lets have a talk here about this. Unhinged takes us back to the world a year after the events of [b:Splintered|12558285|Splintered (Splintered, #1)|A.G. Howard|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1340134213s/12558285.jpg|17562095]. Great, so we've got Alyssa and Jeb who are living out their silly gothic art dreams together. She's getting ready to finish high school, they're going to move to London and leave this whole madness of wonderland behind them.
As is always the case with these matters, things never go as planned. Things steadily start to spiral out of control until finally Alyssa can't stop fighting the pull that wonderland has on her. Blah blah.
Like I said before, I have issues with this book. My main one is the lying. It is one stupid lie that makes up a bulk of the content in this book. One lie perpetuated over an entire year. Alyssa could have told Jeb what happened in wonderland, instead she was being stupid and selfish. If she thought she had any semblance of a stable relationship with that as one of the cornerstones, she's so full of shit. And yet the entire course of the book, she fails to take credit for her role in all of this. She continues to put Jeb into harms way even after she's warned about it. It's so infuriating to see her claim that she loves this boy, this boy who said he was willing to die for her, and yet keep lying to his face. I want to rip her fucking red streak out of her hair! Ugh.
My second issue, is this whole shady parent situation. Honestly, this didn't bother me as much as the previous because it was painfully clear that her father was involved in this mess somehow. That just wasn't very good build up. But the whole story with her mother is such a broken record. A parent locks herself up in an asylum to keep her child safe. In a shocking twist, that doesn't work!
Lastly, I'm growing increasingly tired of love triangles. And the problem is, I don't even feel like this story is a love triangle. I feel like it's two guys pining after one girl who doesn't seem to give a shit about either of them. This goes back to my previous issue with Alyssa and her lying. For some ungodly reason both Morpheus and Jeb are willing to worship at the alter of Alyssa despite how shitty she treats them. She continually argues with and and berates Morpheus, despite the fact that he's been trying to help her. She's always mad at him even though she knows the tricks he pulls. She lets herself fall for them. I don't even like Morpheus and I'm angry for him. Then theres Jeb, who continually gets lied to, left behind, and half ass saved just so that her conscious doesn't have to feel the weight of her own lies. And I don't even get me started on that prophecy shit. I mean are you kidding me??? WHAT! You cannot be serious. I'm having [b:Clockwork Princess|18335634|Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)|Cassandra Clare|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1376663659s/18335634.jpg|6309710] flashbacks.
UGH.
So fine, thats what I don't like. So why would I even bother. Because I do enjoy this world. I think it's fresh and imaginative. I'm not even a fan of Alice in Wonderland, but I liked the uniqueness of the story. I love all the characters because they are so tremendously real and flawed. I just really hate the way that they interact with one another. It's enough to drive me insane. HA! That's almost a funny pun given the end of this book.
Oh well, I hope there's only one more book, only because I need to make sure a certain few characters who's names aren't Alyssa, make it out alright. Maybe she can die off and they can find someone who doesn't treat them like shit.
I have a lot of issues with this book. I had made a shelf, it would be 'love-hate' because I don't know what to feel. I didn't hate this book, because honestly I didn't hate the last one. I didn't love it either. I just sort of liked and hated it at the same time.
Lets have a talk here about this. Unhinged takes us back to the world a year after the events of [b:Splintered|12558285|Splintered (Splintered, #1)|A.G. Howard|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1340134213s/12558285.jpg|17562095]. Great, so we've got Alyssa and Jeb who are living out their silly gothic art dreams together. She's getting ready to finish high school, they're going to move to London and leave this whole madness of wonderland behind them.
As is always the case with these matters, things never go as planned. Things steadily start to spiral out of control until finally Alyssa can't stop fighting the pull that wonderland has on her. Blah blah.
Like I said before, I have issues with this book. My main one is the lying. It is one stupid lie that makes up a bulk of the content in this book. One lie perpetuated over an entire year. Alyssa could have told Jeb what happened in wonderland, instead she was being stupid and selfish. If she thought she had any semblance of a stable relationship with that as one of the cornerstones, she's so full of shit. And yet the entire course of the book, she fails to take credit for her role in all of this. She continues to put Jeb into harms way even after she's warned about it. It's so infuriating to see her claim that she loves this boy, this boy who said he was willing to die for her, and yet keep lying to his face. I want to rip her fucking red streak out of her hair! Ugh.
My second issue, is this whole shady parent situation. Honestly, this didn't bother me as much as the previous because it was painfully clear that her father was involved in this mess somehow. That just wasn't very good build up. But the whole story with her mother is such a broken record. A parent locks herself up in an asylum to keep her child safe. In a shocking twist, that doesn't work!
Lastly, I'm growing increasingly tired of love triangles. And the problem is, I don't even feel like this story is a love triangle. I feel like it's two guys pining after one girl who doesn't seem to give a shit about either of them. This goes back to my previous issue with Alyssa and her lying. For some ungodly reason both Morpheus and Jeb are willing to worship at the alter of Alyssa despite how shitty she treats them. She continually argues with and and berates Morpheus, despite the fact that he's been trying to help her. She's always mad at him even though she knows the tricks he pulls. She lets herself fall for them. I don't even like Morpheus and I'm angry for him. Then theres Jeb, who continually gets lied to, left behind, and half ass saved just so that her conscious doesn't have to feel the weight of her own lies. And I don't even get me started on that prophecy shit. I mean are you kidding me???
Spoiler
She could get to live out her human life with Jeb and then die, go to wonderland and be the queen there with Morpheus as her king????UGH.
So fine, thats what I don't like. So why would I even bother. Because I do enjoy this world. I think it's fresh and imaginative. I'm not even a fan of Alice in Wonderland, but I liked the uniqueness of the story. I love all the characters because they are so tremendously real and flawed. I just really hate the way that they interact with one another. It's enough to drive me insane. HA! That's almost a funny pun given the end of this book.
Oh well, I hope there's only one more book, only because I need to make sure a certain few characters who's names aren't Alyssa, make it out alright. Maybe she can die off and they can find someone who doesn't treat them like shit.