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Better Than Fiction
by Alexa Martin
3 it was fine stars.
There was a lot of potential for this book but it never reached it for me. The story was fine but nothing special. Jasper is too perfect of a character with basically no flaws and Drew has some very frustrating moments.
I understood Drew quite well at times, the divorced parents and the fathers new family thing and how that can lead to a strained relationship with your new sister. Her situation is different from mine but I still get some of that. How she had never given her sister Daisy a chance though and then how they were suddenly best friends was such a 180 it was a bit of whiplash really. I liked the pieces we saw of Daisy but I'd have liked that relationship to be better fleshed out and not suddenly that close. I also felt for Drew with the loss of her Grandmother and how lost she felt without her. There were times that grief came through the page so clearly it brought me close to tears. The problem with Drew, is that she didn't really listen to anyone. She had these thoughts about what she thought her Grandmother wanted her to do and wouldn't pay attention to anyone else's opinions. Instead of doing anything to help her cope with her grief she hid from everyone and everything that ever mattered to her.
Jasper is the perfect, super attractive, writer. Oh did I say how incredibly handsome he is? He needed a flaw of some kind. Nobody is that incredibly sweet and perfect, so it made him unrealistic. I did enjoy the travel and exploration him and Drew did and the inevitable one bed trope was put in at a good place in the story. I liked how he got Drew reading again and she realized that not all stories are fairytales.
The drama near the end was over the top and seemed so out of character. The reason gets explained but its so unsatisfactory. The book was better without the inevitable third act split. Or there needed to be better reasons for it at the very least since the grand gesture was cute.
Again, this book was fine. The language choices weren't great, trying to use current abbreviations and slang that likely wont age well and made the characters seem very young at times.
There was a lot of potential for this book but it never reached it for me. The story was fine but nothing special. Jasper is too perfect of a character with basically no flaws and Drew has some very frustrating moments.
I understood Drew quite well at times, the divorced parents and the fathers new family thing and how that can lead to a strained relationship with your new sister. Her situation is different from mine but I still get some of that. How she had never given her sister Daisy a chance though and then how they were suddenly best friends was such a 180 it was a bit of whiplash really. I liked the pieces we saw of Daisy but I'd have liked that relationship to be better fleshed out and not suddenly that close. I also felt for Drew with the loss of her Grandmother and how lost she felt without her. There were times that grief came through the page so clearly it brought me close to tears. The problem with Drew, is that she didn't really listen to anyone. She had these thoughts about what she thought her Grandmother wanted her to do and wouldn't pay attention to anyone else's opinions. Instead of doing anything to help her cope with her grief she hid from everyone and everything that ever mattered to her.
Jasper is the perfect, super attractive, writer. Oh did I say how incredibly handsome he is? He needed a flaw of some kind. Nobody is that incredibly sweet and perfect, so it made him unrealistic. I did enjoy the travel and exploration him and Drew did and the inevitable one bed trope was put in at a good place in the story. I liked how he got Drew reading again and she realized that not all stories are fairytales.
The drama near the end was over the top and seemed so out of character. The reason gets explained but its so unsatisfactory. The book was better without the inevitable third act split. Or there needed to be better reasons for it at the very least since the grand gesture was cute.
Again, this book was fine. The language choices weren't great, trying to use current abbreviations and slang that likely wont age well and made the characters seem very young at times.