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A review by fantasy_with_me
Cycler by Lauren McLaughlin
2.0
Two stars only because I liked how Jack was the closest to behaving like an actual person. I really liked his revenge and how he was portrayed as a pent up stir-crazy guy. The relationship between him and Ramie is actually interesting. Tommy's decent, too, but it doesn't feel "real" with how he handled coming out as bi.
Jill, and Ramie in the beginning, and specifically all the females - they act like brainless stuck up snobs... which I didn't expect going into this. Jill doesn't seem to have a mind of her own, she just thinks what mommy tells her to think, with the only exception being, being friends with Ramie. And they don't set good examples for girls. One of them skips class to get almost naked on a beach with her new boyfriend and the other one sleeps with a guy she just met, who only comes to her window at night once every couple months and she doesn't even know his last name.
The plot, in theory, should have been amazing. The idea sure was. But I didn't like the (majority) characters, didn't like the style of writing, and definitely did not like the silly-teenager-overused-words such as "mal" and "deeply." I wanted to throw the book into the fire every time she said that second one. It was worse than Stephanie Meyer and the word "Russet".
Jill, and Ramie in the beginning, and specifically all the females - they act like brainless stuck up snobs... which I didn't expect going into this. Jill doesn't seem to have a mind of her own, she just thinks what mommy tells her to think, with the only exception being, being friends with Ramie. And they don't set good examples for girls. One of them skips class to get almost naked on a beach with her new boyfriend and the other one sleeps with a guy she just met, who only comes to her window at night once every couple months and she doesn't even know his last name.
The plot, in theory, should have been amazing. The idea sure was. But I didn't like the (majority) characters, didn't like the style of writing, and definitely did not like the silly-teenager-overused-words such as "mal" and "deeply." I wanted to throw the book into the fire every time she said that second one. It was worse than Stephanie Meyer and the word "Russet".