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A review by afretts
Between the Lines by Tammara Webber
3.0
Absolutely zero idea how to react to this book. I feel like Tammara stuck her hand into my brain and swirled it around.
Ok. I have no idea where to start with reviewing this so I am just going to launch into one big stream of consciousness rant. This is what reading this book made me feel like:
Tammara Webber is an incredibly talented writer. No one does character development like she does. There is no insta-love or insta-friendship here. She's a pro at those little nuanced interactions that make you believe that the relationships her characters are forming are real and meaningful. MOST OF THE TIME.
I did not believe that someone like Emma would like Reid. This relationship was not even slightly believable to me. It would have been believable if Emma would have waxed poetic a little more about what she saw in him, but she really didn't seems to think about him at all. It was strange. There was nothing written (in my opinion) that explained why she liked this obnoxious character.
I could have done without Reid's POV. Good God is he obnoxious. Seriously no redeeming qualities. I wish there was something there that I could have hitched onto and used to justify him having friends AT ALL with. He was just so awful. Tadd and Quinton seemed like OK guys so I don't understand why they would have wanted to be around Reid at all.
But Graham. BUT GRAHAM. Loved him. What a great character. So much to him. He just makes me feel warm and happy inside. The next book is partially told from his POV so I'm looking forward to getting into his head a little bit.
Emma and Emily's relationship was adorable. I'm looking forward to reading more about it in the subsequent books.
Would I recommend this? ...Yes- a very tentative yes. It wasn't that I didn't like it, I did. It was a well written book. It just really felt like all but the last 30 pages were an introduction. I felt like the characters were being introduced and built up and developed for a full 200 pages. Really, not much exciting happened (IMO) until very, very end of the book. It was almost like this should have been the first 1/3 of a very long book. And maybe it is, there are 3 more in the series. I've just never read a series like this. I am used to the traditional rise/beginning, climax/middle, fall/end paradigm. This book was very different from that. However, I did already start [b:Where You Are|12067972|Where You Are (Between the Lines, #2)|Tammara Webber|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1367082773s/12067972.jpg|17035474] so it was obviously good enough to keep me wanting more.
Ok. I have no idea where to start with reviewing this so I am just going to launch into one big stream of consciousness rant. This is what reading this book made me feel like:
Tammara Webber is an incredibly talented writer. No one does character development like she does. There is no insta-love or insta-friendship here. She's a pro at those little nuanced interactions that make you believe that the relationships her characters are forming are real and meaningful. MOST OF THE TIME.
I did not believe that someone like Emma would like Reid. This relationship was not even slightly believable to me. It would have been believable if Emma would have waxed poetic a little more about what she saw in him, but she really didn't seems to think about him at all. It was strange. There was nothing written (in my opinion) that explained why she liked this obnoxious character.
I could have done without Reid's POV. Good God is he obnoxious. Seriously no redeeming qualities. I wish there was something there that I could have hitched onto and used to justify him having friends AT ALL with. He was just so awful. Tadd and Quinton seemed like OK guys so I don't understand why they would have wanted to be around Reid at all.
But Graham. BUT GRAHAM. Loved him. What a great character. So much to him. He just makes me feel warm and happy inside. The next book is partially told from his POV so I'm looking forward to getting into his head a little bit.
Emma and Emily's relationship was adorable. I'm looking forward to reading more about it in the subsequent books.
Would I recommend this? ...Yes- a very tentative yes. It wasn't that I didn't like it, I did. It was a well written book. It just really felt like all but the last 30 pages were an introduction. I felt like the characters were being introduced and built up and developed for a full 200 pages. Really, not much exciting happened (IMO) until very, very end of the book. It was almost like this should have been the first 1/3 of a very long book. And maybe it is, there are 3 more in the series. I've just never read a series like this. I am used to the traditional rise/beginning, climax/middle, fall/end paradigm. This book was very different from that. However, I did already start [b:Where You Are|12067972|Where You Are (Between the Lines, #2)|Tammara Webber|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1367082773s/12067972.jpg|17035474] so it was obviously good enough to keep me wanting more.