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A review by christiana
He's So Not Worth It by Kieran Scott
1.0
There's a note in the library workroom that someone left in a book. It says "Dear friend, Don't waste your time on this book. You'll be sorry. Sincerely, X". I'm paraphrasing that but I stayed true to its meaning. So this is me virtually saying to you: Dear friend, don't waste your time on this book. You won't be able to get your life back. Sincerely, Christiana.
This book was gross. Maybe I would have been more into this if I had known it was a sequel. As it was, I didn't realize why I wasn't being given character descriptions or relationship explanations until about page 80 when I looked at the back flap and realized Scott wrote another book with a similar title. Can't we put something on the cover referencing another book? Or put something about it in the inside jacket flap saying "In the sequel to x"?
Given that I hadn't read the first book, I found the majority of the plot atrocious. Every time Ally's mom waltzes around, she's trying to get it with Grayson EVEN WHEN THEY'RE ON A BALCONY. So Ally's response is excessive drinking (even though she was never a drinker before and never even has a good experience with it) and NOT TALKING TO ANYONE about her problems. I understand she has limited friends, but she keeps talking about this friend Annie and she has a freaking cell phone. Last I checked, calls are free after 9! She probably has unlimited text too! CALL YOUR FRIEND AND GET SOME THERAPY.
Also, I just can't buy that three different boys are interested in the same outsider status girl simultaneously. I get what Scott was trying to do: they all knew her in different ways, one got to know her over time, one had just met her, and one realized how great she was after someone else put the time in with her. I get it. But that is so unrealistic that we are just setting teen girls up for disappointment when no one comes to the (non existent, for most girls)summer resort just to see her. So why is the cover a guy with two girls? Why isn't it a cover with Ally surrounded by boys who are freaking out over her? This cover makes no sense.
I know this is just supposed to be a fun rich kid romp. But it reads like Gossip Girl (The books, not the TV series and not in a good way), especially when the teen pregnancy plot line starts rolling in.
This book was so gross. Get your life back and don't even pick this one up.
This book was gross. Maybe I would have been more into this if I had known it was a sequel. As it was, I didn't realize why I wasn't being given character descriptions or relationship explanations until about page 80 when I looked at the back flap and realized Scott wrote another book with a similar title. Can't we put something on the cover referencing another book? Or put something about it in the inside jacket flap saying "In the sequel to x"?
Given that I hadn't read the first book, I found the majority of the plot atrocious. Every time Ally's mom waltzes around, she's trying to get it with Grayson EVEN WHEN THEY'RE ON A BALCONY. So Ally's response is excessive drinking (even though she was never a drinker before and never even has a good experience with it) and NOT TALKING TO ANYONE about her problems. I understand she has limited friends, but she keeps talking about this friend Annie and she has a freaking cell phone. Last I checked, calls are free after 9! She probably has unlimited text too! CALL YOUR FRIEND AND GET SOME THERAPY.
Also, I just can't buy that three different boys are interested in the same outsider status girl simultaneously. I get what Scott was trying to do: they all knew her in different ways, one got to know her over time, one had just met her, and one realized how great she was after someone else put the time in with her. I get it. But that is so unrealistic that we are just setting teen girls up for disappointment when no one comes to the (non existent, for most girls)summer resort just to see her. So why is the cover a guy with two girls? Why isn't it a cover with Ally surrounded by boys who are freaking out over her? This cover makes no sense.
I know this is just supposed to be a fun rich kid romp. But it reads like Gossip Girl (The books, not the TV series and not in a good way), especially when the teen pregnancy plot line starts rolling in.
This book was so gross. Get your life back and don't even pick this one up.