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A review by arminareads
You Shouldn't Have Come Here by Jeneva Rose
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
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I personally did not really enjoy this book. I contemplated not finishing it but I wanted to see where the story was going. First few chapters were alright, but I was waiting on the plot to thicken, and I was disappointed. The more I got into the book, the more I started to roll my eyes....and it happened a lot.
First it was the way the story was written, I didn't find pleasure in it. There were sentences that made no sense, for example the FMC scratched at a scar on her knee that she didn't remember where she got it from. Then the next sentence was something like "Sometimes we don't remember how scars become". And there were a lot of sentences like that just thrown in there that had me π, "sometimes this" and "sometimes that" that was just too repetitive. "Sometimes the sky is blue, it'd be like that, but who knows the mysterious ways about it?"(I made that up because that's how I felt like reading some parts of this book....π).
Secondly, the characters fell flat. Calvin was on a whole another delulu level, and Grace's personality wasn't very enjoyable either. The dialogues between the main and side characters lacked some essence and I failed to see where the story was going for the entirety of the book. The only action/reveal is in the last 10 pages or so, and I did not like the ending at all. Everything was too monotone for me, I didn't feel any emotion reading this book.
Maybe in the future I'll try another book of hers, but this one did not work out for me. π
I personally did not really enjoy this book. I contemplated not finishing it but I wanted to see where the story was going. First few chapters were alright, but I was waiting on the plot to thicken, and I was disappointed. The more I got into the book, the more I started to roll my eyes....and it happened a lot.
First it was the way the story was written, I didn't find pleasure in it. There were sentences that made no sense, for example the FMC scratched at a scar on her knee that she didn't remember where she got it from. Then the next sentence was something like "Sometimes we don't remember how scars become". And there were a lot of sentences like that just thrown in there that had me π, "sometimes this" and "sometimes that" that was just too repetitive. "Sometimes the sky is blue, it'd be like that, but who knows the mysterious ways about it?"(I made that up because that's how I felt like reading some parts of this book....π).
Secondly, the characters fell flat. Calvin was on a whole another delulu level, and Grace's personality wasn't very enjoyable either. The dialogues between the main and side characters lacked some essence and I failed to see where the story was going for the entirety of the book. The only action/reveal is in the last 10 pages or so, and I did not like the ending at all. Everything was too monotone for me, I didn't feel any emotion reading this book.
Maybe in the future I'll try another book of hers, but this one did not work out for me. π