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A review by evarano
All These Beautiful Strangers by Elizabeth Klehfoth
1.0
This was awful. I DNF @ 35% but skimmed very quick and read the end. I listened on audio until the DNF. First off, this is so boring and way too long. The chapters are sooo long. It feels like this book is three stories shoved into one. There’s the secret society, the mother’s disappearance and the mother and father’s relationship with their POV. It was too much. I don’t see why there needed to be the mom and dad POV, it ended up being repetitive when Charlie found everything out anyways.
This didn’t feel like a YA, the characters swear and try to seem cool, but would never actually talk like that in real life. None of the characters are likeable, they all do weird and awful things, especially the relationship between the mom and dad and how that came to be. Charlie’s relationship with Leo, her cousin, is so weird, the had kissed, they cuddle, it’s so odd. Leo is horrible to everyone, especially women. Charlie makes jokes about suicide and shacks up with an older guy who’s a childhood friend. It’s all just odd. There equally was both too much and not enough of any one thing. This is not a thriller, it’s more a mystery? Anyways, so boring and waste of time.
This didn’t feel like a YA, the characters swear and try to seem cool, but would never actually talk like that in real life. None of the characters are likeable, they all do weird and awful things, especially the relationship between the mom and dad and how that came to be. Charlie’s relationship with Leo, her cousin, is so weird, the had kissed, they cuddle, it’s so odd. Leo is horrible to everyone, especially women. Charlie makes jokes about suicide and shacks up with an older guy who’s a childhood friend. It’s all just odd. There equally was both too much and not enough of any one thing. This is not a thriller, it’s more a mystery? Anyways, so boring and waste of time.