A review by oczerniecka
As If I Were a River by Amanda Saint

1.0

It was so bad! It hurts me how bad it was. I really didn't enjoy my time with this book, I forced myself to get to a half, and then I just was skimming the pages. There are great books waiting for me, so there was no point on focusing on this one.

What can I say? Book is split on Lauren's and Kate's chapters, and sometimes there is a chapter dedicated to Una showing her letters or diary entries. All the characters seem to always overreacting or underreacting, their dialogs are full of clichés and just seem fake. Some parts just made me cringe there we that bad. Laura at the beginning it portrayed as if she had a mentality of a 12 year old girl, but she's in fact 18 year old and just had to face a huge tragedy in her life. And I just feel annoyed with her. The same with Kate. I just was feeling annoyed. They way all the evens were shown did not make me feel for her at all. Some parts of dialogs are trying to convince us how much bad stuff happened to Kate, but it is not convincing. I'm sorry that I have to be convinced, but word created in the book does not look convincing, and not for a moment I felt bad for anyone, I was indifferent to it all.

Don't read this book. It's not worth your time.

And I now need to binge on a good book or else I go mad!