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liv_thomas2205 's review for:
The One
by Kiera Cass
I wanted to love this book as much as the next person but something was off… I did get to witness the HEA in the end but, something was missing and I hated that. The high rating is because despite all my criticisms here, I couldn’t put the book down, devoured it in a few hours, and it will be a comfort series for all time, despite how much of an injustice the execution of this book gave me. If you’re this far in, you aren’t looking for spoilers so I won’t.
The plot - again, everything and nothing happened in this book. It seemed like Miss Cass couldn’t wait to fit every single one of her ideas into this one storyline and I just… The shocking points? Weighed down by tons of pointless descriptions. The wow factors? Dampened by the chaos of the situation. The resolutions? Spur of the moment and COMPLETELY unrealistic. Relationship progress? Ruined by yoyo-ing emotions, thoughts, feelings and opinions. I so so wanted to love this one but it didn’t do it for me. And the epilogue/finale felt cheap and tacky. Like a button sewn over a gaping hole that couldn’t be filled by the short few pages left.
The MC - nothing will anger me more than how America acted in this book. I’m gonna role play here what exactly i’d say to her if I ever met the character irl;
America: “Hi Liv! Did you like the book?”
Me: “Fuck off. Fuck right off. Fuck off aallllll the way back to Carolina and never come out of your hidey hole ever again.”
She made me that mad. That is all.
The male counterpart - You…. He… she…. No words. Really, no words. No words can convey the absolute amount of bullshit that went through this man’s head. Well and truly, what a dickhead. You don’t get to chop and change and be a whore because that’s your “society”, fuck off with that. Whole time I hated him and only at the end did I warm to him a little.
The plot - again, everything and nothing happened in this book. It seemed like Miss Cass couldn’t wait to fit every single one of her ideas into this one storyline and I just… The shocking points? Weighed down by tons of pointless descriptions. The wow factors? Dampened by the chaos of the situation. The resolutions? Spur of the moment and COMPLETELY unrealistic. Relationship progress? Ruined by yoyo-ing emotions, thoughts, feelings and opinions. I so so wanted to love this one but it didn’t do it for me. And the epilogue/finale felt cheap and tacky. Like a button sewn over a gaping hole that couldn’t be filled by the short few pages left.
The MC - nothing will anger me more than how America acted in this book. I’m gonna role play here what exactly i’d say to her if I ever met the character irl;
America: “Hi Liv! Did you like the book?”
Me: “Fuck off. Fuck right off. Fuck off aallllll the way back to Carolina and never come out of your hidey hole ever again.”
She made me that mad. That is all.
The male counterpart - You…. He… she…. No words. Really, no words. No words can convey the absolute amount of bullshit that went through this man’s head. Well and truly, what a dickhead. You don’t get to chop and change and be a whore because that’s your “society”, fuck off with that. Whole time I hated him and only at the end did I warm to him a little.