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The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett
by Chelsea Sedoti
DNF @ 82%
So I don't really know what to say about this book. I wasn't feeling it at the start because the main character just really isn't it for me. She was very obsessed with herself, then very obsessed with Lizzie Lovett who she hated, then very obsessed with the most ludicrous and childish ideas or thoughts. Things that a person who is almost considered an adult shouldn't be thinking or believing. Like to put it in perspective she was legit trying to pedal the idea that Lizzie Lovett turned into a werewolf and ran away to live her best life as a wolf. The idea of someone her age genuinely believing this was so unrealistic and made her even worse than she already was-her detachment from reality was something that really irked me. She felt like everyone was out to get her, she constantly and childishly wishes bad things upon others, and then finds ways to make something serious seem silly-such as the disappearance of Lizzie. I hated how she detracted from it like it was some joke. She was so far out of it-that it irked me.
One of the bigger reasons as to why I dropped this book is the "relationship". Honestly, I am not putting this in spoilers just because like I just want to WARN anyone before they pick this book up that there is an age gap and an age difference that is WRONG and the relationship isn't really questioned at all. Hawthorne is like 17 and her love interest I think is 25(?) and like legit nobody questions it-at the start people do because of the predicament. But when things actually happen her brother who seems protective doesn't give a flying crap that she is hooking up with someone who is too old for her. LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!? HER PARENTS DIDN'T EVEN SEEM TO REALLY CARE!?!
It got to the point that I dreaded reading it knowing that nobody would really say anything about the inappropriateness of the relationship. So yeah no I couldn't deal with it. This along with the fact that the plot just dragged and the inability for Hawthorne to even SERIOUSLY try with investigating and as a result the whole Lizzie plot line lagged and got nowhere. I just couldn't continue on in the book.
So I don't really know what to say about this book. I wasn't feeling it at the start because the main character just really isn't it for me. She was very obsessed with herself, then very obsessed with Lizzie Lovett who she hated, then very obsessed with the most ludicrous and childish ideas or thoughts. Things that a person who is almost considered an adult shouldn't be thinking or believing.
One of the bigger reasons as to why I dropped this book is the "relationship". Honestly, I am not putting this in spoilers just because like I just want to WARN anyone before they pick this book up that there is an age gap and an age difference that is WRONG and the relationship isn't really questioned at all. Hawthorne is like 17 and her love interest I think is 25(?) and like legit nobody questions it-at the start people do because of the predicament. But when things actually happen her brother who seems protective doesn't give a flying crap that she is hooking up with someone who is too old for her. LIKE WHAT IS HAPPENING!?!? HER PARENTS DIDN'T EVEN SEEM TO REALLY CARE!?!
It got to the point that I dreaded reading it knowing that nobody would really say anything about the inappropriateness of the relationship. So yeah no I couldn't deal with it. This along with the fact that the plot just dragged and the inability for Hawthorne to even SERIOUSLY try with investigating and as a result the whole Lizzie plot line lagged and got nowhere. I just couldn't continue on in the book.