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A review by minnemathilde
Flipped by Wendelin Van Draanen
2.5
That’s it? Seriously?
This story has such interesting characters, good storylines, and great potential as an overall idea. It was going in an alright direction. Yet it still fell so flat.
Now I understand why my friend said the movie was better than the book. Because I can see why this would be great as a movie, but God, it just simply wasn’t good (at all) as a book. It had way too many time jumps; instead of telling a full, ongoing story, each two chapters were about one specific significant scene. Like someone just thought “hey, this would be a cute scenario” but was too lazy to work out a whole story around it. And that ending?? If she had written a proper ending, if she had at least fleshed out that part, then sure, I could see past the emptiness of the previous 200 pages simply out of thrill for the actual romance confession. But leaving an already incomplete book unfinished just feels cheap. And if it was a stylistic choice, then it’s still just not my cup of tea, I guess.
Lots of potential, but not fleshed out enough.
This story has such interesting characters, good storylines, and great potential as an overall idea. It was going in an alright direction. Yet it still fell so flat.
Now I understand why my friend said the movie was better than the book. Because I can see why this would be great as a movie, but God, it just simply wasn’t good (at all) as a book. It had way too many time jumps; instead of telling a full, ongoing story, each two chapters were about one specific significant scene. Like someone just thought “hey, this would be a cute scenario” but was too lazy to work out a whole story around it. And that ending?? If she had written a proper ending, if she had at least fleshed out that part, then sure, I could see past the emptiness of the previous 200 pages simply out of thrill for the actual romance confession. But leaving an already incomplete book unfinished just feels cheap. And if it was a stylistic choice, then it’s still just not my cup of tea, I guess.
Lots of potential, but not fleshed out enough.