megansue_ 's review for:

The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig

2.0

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The plot could have existed without half of what was going on. The time-traveling serial killer didn't bring anything to the story. He seems to exist only as "proof" of Maddie's ability to create things. The actual Book of Accidents didn't bring anything to the story. There was no explanation about why that particular book was a spell book...there was one remark (I can't even remember by who) about how nothing in it is really an accident and I guess that's why it has powers??? Why do only Maddie and Oliver have powers? Again, the time/universe travel plot could have existed without them having powers. It felt like there was 30 different plots that were ok on their own but didn't make sense when they came together. I think it could have been a stronger book of it was about half of the length and got to the point. I want my husband to read it only because I don't even know how to explain the plot to him.