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mleach07 's review for:
The Night Olivia Fell
by Christina McDonald
I went into this book expecting a suspenseful mystery. I can tell you, if you are looking for another “reconstructing Amelia” you won’t find it with this book, even though they say it is the same. The premise of this book is sold on the fact that it is basically like that book, but this just isn’t true. It isn’t a bad book, but the fact that it was sold to me (a staunch thriller/suspense lover) as a suspenseful mystery made me very perplexed with the actual story. It is a contemporary/slightly mysterious novel.
You can see the blurb, Olivia falls off a bridge and is brain dead. This is a priceless story line. Something worth expanding on, but I feel, and it might just be me, that the author fell short. I hated the protagonist “Abi”. I found her to be immature and unrelatable. While we went through a back and forth story line, we had to go along with a grown adult saying constantly she was ready to move on. The thing for me with this story is the fact that it would have been good,Olivia’s story was good, but I felt constantly bogged down by Abi (the mothers) story. In the end I didn’t care about Olivias story. I just wanted to book to end. I was constantly assaulted by Abi’s issues and her story. That I’m unsure why this was even a story about Olivia.
You can see the blurb, Olivia falls off a bridge and is brain dead. This is a priceless story line. Something worth expanding on, but I feel, and it might just be me, that the author fell short. I hated the protagonist “Abi”. I found her to be immature and unrelatable. While we went through a back and forth story line, we had to go along with a grown adult saying constantly she was ready to move on. The thing for me with this story is the fact that it would have been good,Olivia’s story was good, but I felt constantly bogged down by Abi (the mothers) story. In the end I didn’t care about Olivias story. I just wanted to book to end. I was constantly assaulted by Abi’s issues and her story. That I’m unsure why this was even a story about Olivia.