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A review by zephyrsilver
Bonechiller by Graham McNamee
Did not finish book.
I got about sixty pages in. I tried. I just did not want to keep reading this book.
The writing style was almost insultingly simple. It felt like the author knew they were writing YA so they felt they had to dumb down the writing. Or maybe this is just how he writes. I'm not sure. But it really bothered me.
I didn't like the characters. For some people that's not important, but it is for me. If I can't get attached to a character, I'm not going to get attached to a book. Danny was annoying, Pike was awful, Howie was poorly treated, and Ash was a token character that was also "not like other girls". Ugh.
I've just got too many books to read to waste my time on something I'm not enjoying. Maybe it did get better, but I really believe the beginning of a book needs to catch a reader. This just didn't.
The writing style was almost insultingly simple. It felt like the author knew they were writing YA so they felt they had to dumb down the writing. Or maybe this is just how he writes. I'm not sure. But it really bothered me.
I didn't like the characters. For some people that's not important, but it is for me. If I can't get attached to a character, I'm not going to get attached to a book. Danny was annoying, Pike was awful, Howie was poorly treated, and Ash was a token character that was also "not like other girls". Ugh.
I've just got too many books to read to waste my time on something I'm not enjoying. Maybe it did get better, but I really believe the beginning of a book needs to catch a reader. This just didn't.