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A review by lurdes_oliveira
The Dead List: Apollycon Edition by Jennifer L. Armentrout
2.0
Jennifer Armentrout is a very loved author here on Goodreads, and I have been wanting to read one of her books, I got my hands on this one, and I have to say, I'm disappointed… Specially looking at the ratings… Did I read a different book?
There're too many things about this, that just rubbed me the wrong way, too many ridiculous far-fetched moments.
Every time Ella is attacked, she acts like it isn't a big deal. She almost died! It is a big deal! And no one tells her that! Life just resumes as nothing happen…
She almost died of asphyxiation, but her only concern is about her physical appearance, it's ridiculous that almost dying wasn’t enough of a reality check for her.
And the romance… ugh… I found it so incredibly annoying. In theory, I guess this could work: a mystery with romance mixed in, but it just didn't! The tone is way off!
What kind of mystery book keeps going on and on, about how hot some guy is? Ella just forgets that she's just being attacked and harassed by some sick guy, or than young people that she knows are going missing and coming back as corpses, just because Jensen smiles at her and touches her…
Speaking of Jensen, in what world are 17 year old boys fully jacked? Yeah right… But he isn't just insanely hot and knows it. He's also overly confident, super loyal, always says the right thing, and somehow is always in the right place at the right time… *eye roll*
The side-characters, mainly her "best-friends", are one dimensional cardboards… Heidi is always eating granola bars… wtf?
While she is taking a shower in her other friend house (I forgot her name). How long was she in the shower?? The garage was filled with gas? Enough for the friend to get in a coma? If I cared more about this, I would researched I long this would take, but I don't…
In what world would a policemen would call the boyfriend instead of the mother, she is a minor! The lack of parental concern throughout the book is both unrealistic and funny…
I've skimmed the end, because I just hasn´t interested anymore. The "reveals" are… stupid! The motives are absurd, and just very forced! I fully body laugh when she sees the names written on the old bedroom wall… I don't care what that says about me, but this was stupid…
There're too many things about this, that just rubbed me the wrong way, too many ridiculous far-fetched moments.
Every time Ella is attacked, she acts like it isn't a big deal. She almost died! It is a big deal! And no one tells her that! Life just resumes as nothing happen…
She almost died of asphyxiation, but her only concern is about her physical appearance, it's ridiculous that almost dying wasn’t enough of a reality check for her.
And the romance… ugh… I found it so incredibly annoying. In theory, I guess this could work: a mystery with romance mixed in, but it just didn't! The tone is way off!
What kind of mystery book keeps going on and on, about how hot some guy is? Ella just forgets that she's just being attacked and harassed by some sick guy, or than young people that she knows are going missing and coming back as corpses, just because Jensen smiles at her and touches her…
Speaking of Jensen, in what world are 17 year old boys fully jacked? Yeah right… But he isn't just insanely hot and knows it. He's also overly confident, super loyal, always says the right thing, and somehow is always in the right place at the right time… *eye roll*
The side-characters, mainly her "best-friends", are one dimensional cardboards… Heidi is always eating granola bars… wtf?
While she is taking a shower in her other friend house (I forgot her name). How long was she in the shower?? The garage was filled with gas? Enough for the friend to get in a coma? If I cared more about this, I would researched I long this would take, but I don't…
In what world would a policemen would call the boyfriend instead of the mother, she is a minor! The lack of parental concern throughout the book is both unrealistic and funny…
I've skimmed the end, because I just hasn´t interested anymore. The "reveals" are… stupid! The motives are absurd, and just very forced! I fully body laugh when she sees the names written on the old bedroom wall… I don't care what that says about me, but this was stupid…