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A review by kiaramedina
Love, Lucas by Chantele Sedgwick
2.0
*I read this as an ARC as part of #ARCAugust (2017) and my arc catch-up challenge. I read 16% before DNFing. This is my honest opinion. All reviews at: www.theterriblebookblogger.wordpress.com
I only read to 16% because I decided to finish the chapter that got me to 10%.
Summary:
When Oakley Nelson loses her brother, Lucas, to cancer, she thinks she’ll never recover. Between her parents’ arguing and the battle she’s fighting with depression, she feels nothing inside but a hollow emptiness. When Mom suggests they spend the summer in California with Aunt Jo, Oakley isn’t sure that a change of scenery will alter anything, but she’s willing to give it a try.
In California, Oakley discovers a sort of safety and freedom in Aunt Jo’s beach house. Once they’re settled, Mom hands her a notebook full of letters addressed to her—from Lucas. As Oakley reads one each day, she realizes how much he loved her, and each letter challenges her to be better and to continue to enjoy her life. He wants her to move on.
If only it were that easy.
But then a surfer named Carson comes into her life, and Oakley is blindsided. He makes her feel again. As she lets him in, she is surprised by how much she cares for him, and things get complicated. How can she fall in love and be happy when Lucas never got the chance to do those very same things?
With her brother’s dying words as guidance, Oakley must learn to listen to and trust herself again. She soon realizes that second chances are ways to learn from the past, and you don’t always have to leave the past behind to find happiness in the future.
^If your summary is this long, you need to rethink it. Just saying.
What put me off from this book was the expositional writing. The lines are delivered in a detached and unfeeling manner and it’s hard to feel anything when the dialogue is so clunky and odd.
Here’s an example: “You don’t have to be in school since you graduated early, and you don’t have a job or anything.” (ARC Quote, subject to change)
This is said by Oakley’s mom to Oakley. Not only is this information that Oakley already knows…it’s just not a normal people line delivery.
This story is supposed to be emotional and make you feel for the main character, but I didn’t feel much of anything in the little I read.
Everything just felt unrealistic and characiture like.
Example: “It had grossed me out, and I’m pretty sure I ran away screaming.” (ARC Quote, subject to change).
She’s talking about being a kid, but it’s written so…unrealistically that it just makes me cringe.
Maybe this is a story worth reading, but the expositional writing and the caricature characters made it unreadable for me.
I only read to 16% because I decided to finish the chapter that got me to 10%.
Summary:
When Oakley Nelson loses her brother, Lucas, to cancer, she thinks she’ll never recover. Between her parents’ arguing and the battle she’s fighting with depression, she feels nothing inside but a hollow emptiness. When Mom suggests they spend the summer in California with Aunt Jo, Oakley isn’t sure that a change of scenery will alter anything, but she’s willing to give it a try.
In California, Oakley discovers a sort of safety and freedom in Aunt Jo’s beach house. Once they’re settled, Mom hands her a notebook full of letters addressed to her—from Lucas. As Oakley reads one each day, she realizes how much he loved her, and each letter challenges her to be better and to continue to enjoy her life. He wants her to move on.
If only it were that easy.
But then a surfer named Carson comes into her life, and Oakley is blindsided. He makes her feel again. As she lets him in, she is surprised by how much she cares for him, and things get complicated. How can she fall in love and be happy when Lucas never got the chance to do those very same things?
With her brother’s dying words as guidance, Oakley must learn to listen to and trust herself again. She soon realizes that second chances are ways to learn from the past, and you don’t always have to leave the past behind to find happiness in the future.
^If your summary is this long, you need to rethink it. Just saying.
What put me off from this book was the expositional writing. The lines are delivered in a detached and unfeeling manner and it’s hard to feel anything when the dialogue is so clunky and odd.
Here’s an example: “You don’t have to be in school since you graduated early, and you don’t have a job or anything.” (ARC Quote, subject to change)
This is said by Oakley’s mom to Oakley. Not only is this information that Oakley already knows…it’s just not a normal people line delivery.
This story is supposed to be emotional and make you feel for the main character, but I didn’t feel much of anything in the little I read.
Everything just felt unrealistic and characiture like.
Example: “It had grossed me out, and I’m pretty sure I ran away screaming.” (ARC Quote, subject to change).
She’s talking about being a kid, but it’s written so…unrealistically that it just makes me cringe.
Maybe this is a story worth reading, but the expositional writing and the caricature characters made it unreadable for me.