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A review by delijha711
Maeve Fly by C.J. Leede
dark
funny
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? N/A
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
Warning: SPOILERS!
So I was recommended this book after reading "A Certain Hunger" and was a tad disappointed in that one. I was told this book was gory and more horror with a more complex female character. I can gladly say both characters were just okay.
This book started out great, interesting first ten-fifteen pages but DRAGGED and I mean it dragged. Maeve was just constantly talking about how different she was to everyone else and how unique she was but there was really nothing behind it. She was the definition of the person that says, "I am different from everyone else." I think the comparison to American Psycho is so interesting because, I suppose this was a love letter, in a sense to that interesting piece of literature but it didn't make quite reach that bar for me. The whole beginning of the book felt like just a random person talking about their day, Maeve as a narrator was...boring. There wasn't much going on. I liked Kate honestly and I like that the author said without saying they were working at Disneyland without saying it. (I will die on the hill as a Californian that people need to stop saying Anaheim and LA like there incredibly close or that Anaheim is LA, it is not!) But the beginning of the book was just me asking over and over, "okay and?" Even her killing Hilda was so blase. I did think it was clever though that when she needed to sun bleach the bones she just threw them in her Halloween decorations. Like okay miss gurl, reuse and recycle! She did become slightly more interesting when Gideon came into the picture, but their relationship didn't feel natural to Maeve as a character. I felt it was INCREDIBLY obvious that he was going to be like her, "I'm weird outsider, killer" and surprise, surprise, he was.
I am not even joking when I say the book doesn't get hook you in until like 70% in, I know cause Goodreads told me when I put what page I was on and commented "Oh my gosh it took 70% of the book to get interesting." When she got fired and accepted her true self was when Maeve became a character, I enjoyed but even then, we didn't get to see any of what she did. Like we saw a little bit of the torture she did to Liz and she told us what she was going to do, and I was ready, but the next page Liz is dead. Like girl, what? Then she falls into this decent into madness and starts killing for funsies because she pulled all her books off the shelf and the one left was American Psycho...lame. I was furious when she went and killed that band on the bus cause I was like girl, not you leaving evidence! you spit on them! You're touching these people with your bare hands! They can collect evidence! She definitely was slipping up.
I respect what she did to Kate's "boyfriend" with his own cocaine spoon, cause homie deserved it for sure. But I wish that Kate was her friend in that she was also a killer, or if not a killer than someone who didn't mind that she was.
I definitely hated the trope of "let me explain, let me explain" and then boom dead because that's what happened with Gideon. It was incredibly obvious he was telling her he too was a killer but she didn't want to hear it and lost her only ally. Boo.
Honestly this book was just vibes and vibes alone. 2.3/5 it wasn't personally for me but I can see how someone would like this. But the gore/horror 0/5 its lame and off page.
So I was recommended this book after reading "A Certain Hunger" and was a tad disappointed in that one. I was told this book was gory and more horror with a more complex female character. I can gladly say both characters were just okay.
This book started out great, interesting first ten-fifteen pages but DRAGGED and I mean it dragged. Maeve was just constantly talking about how different she was to everyone else and how unique she was but there was really nothing behind it. She was the definition of the person that says, "I am different from everyone else." I think the comparison to American Psycho is so interesting because, I suppose this was a love letter, in a sense to that interesting piece of literature but it didn't make quite reach that bar for me. The whole beginning of the book felt like just a random person talking about their day, Maeve as a narrator was...boring. There wasn't much going on. I liked Kate honestly and I like that the author said without saying they were working at Disneyland without saying it. (I will die on the hill as a Californian that people need to stop saying Anaheim and LA like there incredibly close or that Anaheim is LA, it is not!) But the beginning of the book was just me asking over and over, "okay and?" Even her killing Hilda was so blase. I did think it was clever though that when she needed to sun bleach the bones she just threw them in her Halloween decorations. Like okay miss gurl, reuse and recycle! She did become slightly more interesting when Gideon came into the picture, but their relationship didn't feel natural to Maeve as a character. I felt it was INCREDIBLY obvious that he was going to be like her, "I'm weird outsider, killer" and surprise, surprise, he was.
I am not even joking when I say the book doesn't get hook you in until like 70% in, I know cause Goodreads told me when I put what page I was on and commented "Oh my gosh it took 70% of the book to get interesting." When she got fired and accepted her true self was when Maeve became a character, I enjoyed but even then, we didn't get to see any of what she did. Like we saw a little bit of the torture she did to Liz and she told us what she was going to do, and I was ready, but the next page Liz is dead. Like girl, what? Then she falls into this decent into madness and starts killing for funsies because she pulled all her books off the shelf and the one left was American Psycho...lame. I was furious when she went and killed that band on the bus cause I was like girl, not you leaving evidence! you spit on them! You're touching these people with your bare hands! They can collect evidence! She definitely was slipping up.
I respect what she did to Kate's "boyfriend" with his own cocaine spoon, cause homie deserved it for sure. But I wish that Kate was her friend in that she was also a killer, or if not a killer than someone who didn't mind that she was.
I definitely hated the trope of "let me explain, let me explain" and then boom dead because that's what happened with Gideon. It was incredibly obvious he was telling her he too was a killer but she didn't want to hear it and lost her only ally. Boo.
Honestly this book was just vibes and vibes alone. 2.3/5 it wasn't personally for me but I can see how someone would like this. But the gore/horror 0/5 its lame and off page.