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A review by abcderin
In an Instant by Suzanne Redfearn
1.0
I feel like I have a very -unpopular opinion- view on this one, but whew, I didn't like this book in the slightest.
For starters- this book was anything but "In an Instant." It drug on FOREVER, it genuinely felt like it was never going to end. 93 chapters in 325 pages? So unnecessary, and it made it that much harder to read.
Also, I hate the way Finn was written. It seemed like the author kept throwing in random facts about her as the book went on that didn't really make sense. The whole baseball thing? I just didn't get it. Also, why did Finn watch so many of the people she loved have sex as a ghost? So strange and very uncomfortable to read.
Also... in what world is throwing away everything that reminds you of, or previously belonged to, your dead child after not even a year of them being gone a healthy way to cope? It's not. That was shitty.
Painting the autistic child as a monster so consistently, especially after his death when his dad says "I'm relieved he's gone." That's enough to hate this book by itself, honestly. Yikes.
This book seriously read like a fan fiction or a 16 year old's creative writing project. It sucked.
I think the thing that completely cinched the dislike of this book was the author's note: this was based on her own experiences of a much milder accident, she even named Uncle Bob and Aunt Karen after her own Uncle Bob and Aunt Karen! But to have book Uncle Bob get charged with negligent homicide after the author got diagnosed with.... frostnip? Seems a little much. Go to therapy, girl. You've clearly got a lot going on.
For starters- this book was anything but "In an Instant." It drug on FOREVER, it genuinely felt like it was never going to end. 93 chapters in 325 pages? So unnecessary, and it made it that much harder to read.
Also, I hate the way Finn was written. It seemed like the author kept throwing in random facts about her as the book went on that didn't really make sense. The whole baseball thing? I just didn't get it. Also, why did Finn watch so many of the people she loved have sex as a ghost? So strange and very uncomfortable to read.
Also... in what world is throwing away everything that reminds you of, or previously belonged to, your dead child after not even a year of them being gone a healthy way to cope? It's not. That was shitty.
Painting the autistic child as a monster so consistently, especially after his death when his dad says "I'm relieved he's gone." That's enough to hate this book by itself, honestly. Yikes.
This book seriously read like a fan fiction or a 16 year old's creative writing project. It sucked.
I think the thing that completely cinched the dislike of this book was the author's note: this was based on her own experiences of a much milder accident, she even named Uncle Bob and Aunt Karen after her own Uncle Bob and Aunt Karen! But to have book Uncle Bob get charged with negligent homicide after the author got diagnosed with.... frostnip? Seems a little much. Go to therapy, girl. You've clearly got a lot going on.