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A review by grimoires
Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth
2.0
To be upfront: I am not finishing this book. I had high hopes for it--Danforth's previous novel had a huge impact on me back as a baby lesbian--but I made it 200 pages in, and it is just not delivering. (Quite frankly, every time the narrator cheekily refers to the audience with a "dear readers," I wanted to flip the book off my lap and be done with it.)
I went into this expecting more horror and more boarding school drama. To be fair, the summary mentions the celebrity drama (something I am just not a fan of; perhaps if you're into that those sections will be more enticing) but I had been hoping the horror aspects would intrigue me enough to balance it out. Outside of some decent building of atmosphere on occasion, though, this book isn't scary. The story set at Brookhantz is by far the more interesting one, and I wish the celebrity movie love triangle whatever plotline had just been dropped all together.
The footnotes could have been utilizied better as well. I love the concept, but here it was just unnecessary, unhelpful, and...kind of boring. It didn't really add anything to the story. Unfortunate, because I really was excited to start this.
I went into this expecting more horror and more boarding school drama. To be fair, the summary mentions the celebrity drama (something I am just not a fan of; perhaps if you're into that those sections will be more enticing) but I had been hoping the horror aspects would intrigue me enough to balance it out. Outside of some decent building of atmosphere on occasion, though, this book isn't scary. The story set at Brookhantz is by far the more interesting one, and I wish the celebrity movie love triangle whatever plotline had just been dropped all together.
The footnotes could have been utilizied better as well. I love the concept, but here it was just unnecessary, unhelpful, and...kind of boring. It didn't really add anything to the story. Unfortunate, because I really was excited to start this.