A review by a1ice_booklover
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson

hopeful fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

0.0

I didn't like this book very much at all. I read it for a book club so I had to finish it, but it wasn't very good. I felt like the characters weren't very well developed. And to me and my other book club members, we felt like the author was trolling us or something. On page 212, Jenna said, "I'm not like other girls." which was so goofy that we decided to quote it in our presentation on the book. Also, it felt like the author had a list iof a ton of things she wanted to happen in one book, and so she stuffed them all in and it was so random I could never tell what was going to happen, and NOT in a good way. For an example

in the ending when Allys parents came to tell them that Allys was dying, it felt so random. Especially after something kind of big had just happened. And then all of a sudden two hundred and sixty years later everything is so happy. It felt like the rest of the book was just ignored and the author gave up.

The book was supposed to be dystopian but there weren't very many dystopian parts of it. Jenna is a pick-me, and it's annoying, maybe that was the goal or something but it just wasn't for me.