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sammbach 's review for:
This Is Not a Drill
by K.A. Holt
I really wanted to like this book. Obviously school lock downs are a reality for this target age group, so I was curious to see how this book would touch on the subject but it really fell flat for me.
I personally didn't love the text messaging format, but it was clever on the author's part to include notification blurbs from apps and such throughout the narrative. It just was lacking in substance. Ava, the main character, literally did the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do in a lock down, which didn't add anything to the story for me except frustration.
Overall, I'm sad to say this was such a miss. The banter between friends was fun and we got pieces of other topics like divorce, but it just wasn't what I had hoped for.
I personally didn't love the text messaging format, but it was clever on the author's part to include notification blurbs from apps and such throughout the narrative. It just was lacking in substance. Ava, the main character, literally did the exact opposite of what you're supposed to do in a lock down, which didn't add anything to the story for me except frustration.
Overall, I'm sad to say this was such a miss. The banter between friends was fun and we got pieces of other topics like divorce, but it just wasn't what I had hoped for.