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A review by alexblackreads
You Were Here by Cory McCarthy
3.0
I wound up feeling rather frustrated by this book. Going in, it seemed like it ticked all the boxes of a fun, issue driven contemporary. But then it seemed overwhelmed by problems. The word art sections of the book felt gimmicky (although the comic style sections were well done). There were too many POVs to keep up with, not all of them feeling necessary for the story. The switch between first and third POV always felt wrong to my brain and reading the story never felt natural. The focus seemed to be more on the romance than dealing with her brother's death.
It wasn't terrible, but it was so plagued by problems that I didn't find myself enjoying most of it. It took me five days to read when ordinarily this is the kind of book I'd easily get through in one or two, and I constantly had to force myself to pay attention to what I was reading.
The only sections I really enjoyed by the end were Mik's comic strips, and I'm not someone who's particularly interested in graphic novels. It just seemed like a let down.
It wasn't terrible, but it was so plagued by problems that I didn't find myself enjoying most of it. It took me five days to read when ordinarily this is the kind of book I'd easily get through in one or two, and I constantly had to force myself to pay attention to what I was reading.
The only sections I really enjoyed by the end were Mik's comic strips, and I'm not someone who's particularly interested in graphic novels. It just seemed like a let down.