A review by lostinmylibrary
Infinite in Between by Carolyn Mackler

2.0

My high school graduation is next week, and I was specifically saving this book for this time because I was so sure that it would make me emotional and that the book would really resonate with me. And yet, I felt almost completely detached while reading. I just didn't really care all that much. And considering some of the things that were happening, I should have cared.

I think part of the problem is the length of the book. Fitting the entire high school careers of five separate people into a 400-page book comes with sacrifices. Everything seemed to be moving so quickly that I never really got an opportunity to latch onto anyone or anything. None of the characters seemed to develop a lot - Zoe and Mia were the only ones who seemed really different by the end of the book.

There were a few things that I thought were framed really bizarrely. For example, in December of freshman year, there's

a car crash

. The reader doesn't find out

that someone from the school was killed, or who it was

until April. And even then, only one of the five protagonists knew

the boy who was killed

, and it's never mentioned in her chapters. Even when it's about one of the protagonists, it's like this. Whitney

gets pneumonia

in February of sophomore year, but we hear nothing about that again until May, by which time

she's completely recovered

.