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A review by bookish_kayy
Five Ways to Fall Out of Love by Emily Martin
4.0
3.5 rounded up to 4.
I really wanted to love this. Was super excited about the premise, and was intrigued by the usage of Bayes Rules by a teenage girl in respect to life and love.
Unfortunately, the use of this instead gave me an overly cynical teenage girl, with a habit of constantly doing or saying the wrong thing to the people she cared about.
And then there was Webster. I like to read about mean boys, but the things he said and did were crafted for maximum impact/cruelty, and there wasn’t much to redeem him. I didn’t understand why everyone else in the book seemed to like him. I still don’t.
I think the shining piece in this story was simply Holland, Reese and Lucy, of course.
The miscommunication/ blatant lack of communication trope was strongly present here.
It’s not a reread for me, but it wasn’t a hit either.
I really wanted to love this. Was super excited about the premise, and was intrigued by the usage of Bayes Rules by a teenage girl in respect to life and love.
Unfortunately, the use of this instead gave me an overly cynical teenage girl, with a habit of constantly doing or saying the wrong thing to the people she cared about.
And then there was Webster. I like to read about mean boys, but the things he said and did were crafted for maximum impact/cruelty, and there wasn’t much to redeem him. I didn’t understand why everyone else in the book seemed to like him. I still don’t.
I think the shining piece in this story was simply Holland, Reese and Lucy, of course.
The miscommunication/ blatant lack of communication trope was strongly present here.
It’s not a reread for me, but it wasn’t a hit either.