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A review by averagelulu
Show Stopper by Hayley Barker
1.0
I really wanted to like this book but o-my-god, how sad it is to think about those hours I’ve spent reading that could have been used much better.
- The instant love made me wanna throw up. I’ve read wattpad fanfictions with more depth than ‘idk we looked and each other and ZING i guess’.
- Also, this entire book is only three days? THREE DAYS? I swear that at least 80% was just unnecessary. Two pages on how you’re handcuffing someone? Really?
- I have nothing against some death and shock value, even gore is fine with me, but this book made me so uncomfortable the entire time and it had nothing to do with the (at least what I believe to be) vision of the writer to show how horrible it all was. It felt overdone, a little forced, unbelievable at certain points. Like it had no real value, besides shock. There was no balance. The Hunger Games did it too, but better.
- Let’s stay on the evil topic: all the racists and meanies are just that: meanies. They have no persona, no character. Maybe it’s a shock, but racists are people too. Also, a lot of the dialogue made me cringe as hell. You could replace 90% of the villains lines with ‘im evil, mwuahah’ and it wouldn’t even make a difference.
- World building? Who’s that? Never heard of her.
- The racism felt off. Way off. I am beyond curious of how the world came to be this way, but ofcourse you won’t learn anything about it.
- Maybe my mind blanked out but I’m fairly certain that some things made no sense on the timeline. One moment Silvio is standing in the Arena, the next he is in some sort of mirror labyrinth. Ben can move at the speed of light. An entire arena can be build and painted in one day. Uhu.
Idk, there’s probably more, but I’m tired, I forgot how English works and I just wanna sleep and forget about this book.
- The instant love made me wanna throw up. I’ve read wattpad fanfictions with more depth than ‘idk we looked and each other and ZING i guess’.
- Also, this entire book is only three days? THREE DAYS? I swear that at least 80% was just unnecessary. Two pages on how you’re handcuffing someone? Really?
- I have nothing against some death and shock value, even gore is fine with me, but this book made me so uncomfortable the entire time and it had nothing to do with the (at least what I believe to be) vision of the writer to show how horrible it all was. It felt overdone, a little forced, unbelievable at certain points. Like it had no real value, besides shock. There was no balance. The Hunger Games did it too, but better.
- Let’s stay on the evil topic: all the racists and meanies are just that: meanies. They have no persona, no character. Maybe it’s a shock, but racists are people too. Also, a lot of the dialogue made me cringe as hell. You could replace 90% of the villains lines with ‘im evil, mwuahah’ and it wouldn’t even make a difference.
- World building? Who’s that? Never heard of her.
- The racism felt off. Way off. I am beyond curious of how the world came to be this way, but ofcourse you won’t learn anything about it.
- Maybe my mind blanked out but I’m fairly certain that some things made no sense on the timeline. One moment Silvio is standing in the Arena, the next he is in some sort of mirror labyrinth. Ben can move at the speed of light. An entire arena can be build and painted in one day. Uhu.
Idk, there’s probably more, but I’m tired, I forgot how English works and I just wanna sleep and forget about this book.