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All This Time
by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry
What a disappointment this book was! I enjoyed Five Feet Apart, so I decided to give this one a chance. I know that it is a YA book, and thus is geared toward a younger reader. However, I read a lot of YA and that does not usually stick out to me. It did in this book. The writing itself is very juvenile, coupled with incredibly immature (even for their ages) and unlikable main characters - and a plot line that gets increasingly ridiculous. I almost didn't finish when I got to the first "plot twist" which was incredibly cliche', but I pressed on and am not really glad that I did. The second "twist" was utterly ridiculous, and completely unbelievable in the execution. I wish that authors would recognize that "instalove" is not only an awful story element - but also can be damaging to actual YA readers, who may believe this is the way real-life relationships actually should be. And then we get to the third “twist” - and I’m just disgusted with the absolute ridiculousness of it. If I hadn’t been listening to an audiobook, I would probably have thrown the book. There were just too many problems with this book to say that I even liked it at all - about the only thing of value in this book is the gorgeous cover.