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A review by kmays1107
Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten
1.0
i read this book quickly (in a day and a half) but that is no indication that it was a good book. this is a book club selection and our meeting it next sunday. i only purchased the book on friday and with current plans for the weekend, i had to cram now.
the characters were so flat. you never really got to know max or danielle or why she was confident, other than being his mother, that he wasn't crazy and did't kill a fellow mental patient. the writing itself was rather tired. if the author used electricity to explain one more thing, i was going to scream. i didn't really get interested until the middle of the book and quickly fell out of interest again when the courtroom work came.
i think the book could've been done better in more skilled hands. i needed more character development and maybe some reorginization of the events in the book to have pulled me in from the beginning.
the characters were so flat. you never really got to know max or danielle or why she was confident, other than being his mother, that he wasn't crazy and did't kill a fellow mental patient. the writing itself was rather tired. if the author used electricity to explain one more thing, i was going to scream. i didn't really get interested until the middle of the book and quickly fell out of interest again when the courtroom work came.
i think the book could've been done better in more skilled hands. i needed more character development and maybe some reorginization of the events in the book to have pulled me in from the beginning.