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A review by heyjudy
This is W.A.R. by Lisa Roecker, Laura Roecker
3.0
~2.5-3/5
This was a pretty mediocre read, I’m sad to say. I was expecting it to be better, and very much hoping so. It sounded good, it started good, and there were a couple of very good parts, but there were also a lot of rather boring ones. I just had a very hard time keeping my attention on the book, and wanting to keep reading.
This is told in four different perspectives, in five different parts (the last two are the same perspective). (Actually, I guess there’re five perspectives, since the prologue and epilogue are in a different perspective. Whatever.) The story centers on Willa Ames-Rowan's death, who killed her, and how the four main girls want justice to be served to the person who did it.
The girls were interesting, and the story was interesting. I had a pretty good idea of who did it by the end, but how it was done kept me curious to the very end, and that part was nicely done. The suspense, the curiosity, that kept the story going nicely, and the setup for it was well done as well. I wasn’t sure about the ending at first, but it's grown on me now, and I’m pretty okay with it at the moment. I kind of would have liked everyone/thing to have gone down as well, because they don’t deserve to still be up and pretending to be happy, but I guess I can accept it. I guess.
My biggest problem, I guess, was that I just didn’t really connect with the characters, any of them. They were interesting, as I said, and they were well done, their reasons were understandable, their lives were intriguing. I just didn’t connect, or care, I guess. None of it was keeping me wanting to read. That’s probably just me, though, because everything else was good.
I liked the book, but it ended up being just mediocre for me, I guess.
Thank you so much to Soho Teen and I Heart Daily for sending me a copy!
This review is also available on my blog, with extras.
This was a pretty mediocre read, I’m sad to say. I was expecting it to be better, and very much hoping so. It sounded good, it started good, and there were a couple of very good parts, but there were also a lot of rather boring ones. I just had a very hard time keeping my attention on the book, and wanting to keep reading.
This is told in four different perspectives, in five different parts (the last two are the same perspective). (Actually, I guess there’re five perspectives, since the prologue and epilogue are in a different perspective. Whatever.) The story centers on Willa Ames-Rowan's death, who killed her, and how the four main girls want justice to be served to the person who did it.
The girls were interesting, and the story was interesting. I had a pretty good idea of who did it by the end, but how it was done kept me curious to the very end, and that part was nicely done. The suspense, the curiosity, that kept the story going nicely, and the setup for it was well done as well. I wasn’t sure about the ending at first, but it's grown on me now, and I’m pretty okay with it at the moment. I kind of would have liked everyone/thing to have gone down as well, because they don’t deserve to still be up and pretending to be happy, but I guess I can accept it. I guess.
My biggest problem, I guess, was that I just didn’t really connect with the characters, any of them. They were interesting, as I said, and they were well done, their reasons were understandable, their lives were intriguing. I just didn’t connect, or care, I guess. None of it was keeping me wanting to read. That’s probably just me, though, because everything else was good.
I liked the book, but it ended up being just mediocre for me, I guess.
Thank you so much to Soho Teen and I Heart Daily for sending me a copy!
This review is also available on my blog, with extras.