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A review by _zoe_reads_
Twisted Love by Ana Huang
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.5
i think this book was written for people who never had a wattpad phase.
there are so many reasons this book didn’t work for me but i think it can mainly be boiled down to the character work. ava and alex are supposed to be all of these things and possess all of these traits but i feel that we are never really shown these aspects of their personalities, only told. they (ava and alex) at times read as caricatures or the embodiments of tropes instead of actual people. they, along with every side character, fell flat as a result. the lack of depth in the side characters was a particular annoyance of mine. we are told that alex and josh are like brothers, we are told that ava and her friends are very close knit, but when do we ever actually see this? we hardly ever see them interact, and when they are around, they just serve as placeholders or means to an end, not as characters in their own right.
and let’s not even talk about the third act conflict. i don’t even want to go there. (alex is Insufferable™️)
overall, this just wasn’t the book for me. my critical reading brain just couldn’t be turned off and i wasn’t able to suspend my disbelief when necessary.
there are so many reasons this book didn’t work for me but i think it can mainly be boiled down to the character work. ava and alex are supposed to be all of these things and possess all of these traits but i feel that we are never really shown these aspects of their personalities, only told. they (ava and alex) at times read as caricatures or the embodiments of tropes instead of actual people. they, along with every side character, fell flat as a result. the lack of depth in the side characters was a particular annoyance of mine. we are told that alex and josh are like brothers, we are told that ava and her friends are very close knit, but when do we ever actually see this? we hardly ever see them interact, and when they are around, they just serve as placeholders or means to an end, not as characters in their own right.
and let’s not even talk about the third act conflict. i don’t even want to go there. (alex is Insufferable™️)
overall, this just wasn’t the book for me. my critical reading brain just couldn’t be turned off and i wasn’t able to suspend my disbelief when necessary.