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A review by wildflowerz76
All I Want by Darcey Bell
1.0
So much no. This is an ARC, but it comes out on Tuesday. Also, I hated it, so I'm not doing a formal review.
I didn't read A Simple Favor. I watched the movie and thought it was fine. But a few days ago, I was organizing the January ARCs at work for giveaway and came across this one. I'm doing a book challenge with a group and one of the categories for this month is "a book with a twist." I'm trying to do books that are actually published for the challenge so I can rec them if I like them and people don't have to wait for ages for them to be released. I didn't have any non-ARC twisty books I was looking forward to right now, so I picked this one. It was...not good.
The title comes from Wouldn't It Be Loverly from My Fair Lady. Well, by coincidence, I just watched this for the first time in AGES with my kid because they just read Pygmalion for AP Lit. I also didn't remember much from the movie, but I did not like it either. The otherwise lovely Audrey Hepburn with her screeching was intolerable, it was at least two times too long, and the love story was appalling. So I'm already starting out on the wrong foot here.
The writing here just wasn't good. It lacked a lot of depth and felt more like someone trying to get the bare bones of a story down before they go back and fix it up. Except they never went back. There was nothing really new in the story, except JD's thing from when he was a teenager near the end, though that made no sense. Then the final chapter was terrible. I was feeling a 2/5 before I started writing this, but now I'm feeling 1/5. Blech. And now I have that damn song stuck in my head.
I didn't read A Simple Favor. I watched the movie and thought it was fine. But a few days ago, I was organizing the January ARCs at work for giveaway and came across this one. I'm doing a book challenge with a group and one of the categories for this month is "a book with a twist." I'm trying to do books that are actually published for the challenge so I can rec them if I like them and people don't have to wait for ages for them to be released. I didn't have any non-ARC twisty books I was looking forward to right now, so I picked this one. It was...not good.
The title comes from Wouldn't It Be Loverly from My Fair Lady. Well, by coincidence, I just watched this for the first time in AGES with my kid because they just read Pygmalion for AP Lit. I also didn't remember much from the movie, but I did not like it either. The otherwise lovely Audrey Hepburn with her screeching was intolerable, it was at least two times too long, and the love story was appalling. So I'm already starting out on the wrong foot here.
The writing here just wasn't good. It lacked a lot of depth and felt more like someone trying to get the bare bones of a story down before they go back and fix it up. Except they never went back. There was nothing really new in the story, except JD's thing from when he was a teenager near the end, though that made no sense. Then the final chapter was terrible. I was feeling a 2/5 before I started writing this, but now I'm feeling 1/5. Blech. And now I have that damn song stuck in my head.