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A review by _snarkysharky
If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang
3.0
2.5 ⭐️
It’s cute and easy read.
I wanted to like it more but it was a meh at best.
The writing style is a little too casual for me. I have read YAs with a bit more finesse. I am asian but I felt like there were too many asian terms thrown in to close together, especially in the first three chapters, that made it a little hard to follow.
It has a good premise but I find the ending very weak.
Characters were not fleshed out very well. The food is described in more detail than our main characters. I wanted to sympathize with Alice but she is just so hard to like. Her attitude screams petty and spoiled.
All the characters felt one-dimensional. For a genius, Henry’s motives are very shallow. Was he just being a simp, or did I miss something?
The “friendship” with Chanel (if you can even call it that) felt so artificial. She was just there when it’s convenient.
And there’s the thing with Alice’s powers that were never explained or resolved.
Overall, the story had so much potential in the beginning but was too simplistic in its approach. It could have delved more in the classist struggles, but was cut too short by an absurd climax.
The ending was the biggest let down for me. That “meeting” was laughable. No adult would have allowed that kind of conversation.
The ending was lukewarm.
One wrong cannot right another wrong, right? Not according to this book.
It’s cute and easy read.
I wanted to like it more but it was a meh at best.
The writing style is a little too casual for me. I have read YAs with a bit more finesse. I am asian but I felt like there were too many asian terms thrown in to close together, especially in the first three chapters, that made it a little hard to follow.
It has a good premise but I find the ending very weak.
Characters were not fleshed out very well. The food is described in more detail than our main characters. I wanted to sympathize with Alice but she is just so hard to like. Her attitude screams petty and spoiled.
All the characters felt one-dimensional. For a genius, Henry’s motives are very shallow. Was he just being a simp, or did I miss something?
The “friendship” with Chanel (if you can even call it that) felt so artificial. She was just there when it’s convenient.
And there’s the thing with Alice’s powers that were never explained or resolved.
Overall, the story had so much potential in the beginning but was too simplistic in its approach. It could have delved more in the classist struggles, but was cut too short by an absurd climax.
The ending was the biggest let down for me. That “meeting” was laughable. No adult would have allowed that kind of conversation.
The ending was lukewarm.
One wrong cannot right another wrong, right? Not according to this book.