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A review by thebooknerdscorner
A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan
2.0
A corny romance disguised as a mystery thriller between a high school brainiac and an "attractive" FBI agent.
Farrah "Digit" spends the majority of her time pretending that she's normal by doing basic high schooler activities such as going to parties, watching romance shows with her friends, and hanging out with her clique. Then one day, she finds herself caught up in an investigation, hunted by terrorists, and accompanied by the hottest man that she's ever met: John the undercover agent. As she proves her worth to the FBI and the case, can she also convince John that she's worth taking a risk on romantically?
This book was very cringe in so many different ways. My number one pet peeve had to be how thirsty Digit is throughout the book. She comments on how attractive literally every man she meets is (except for the dude she dubs "Creepy"). And as soon as she meets John she's all, "Can necks be attractive?" "Maybe he'll accidentally touch my arm," "Do you think he'll kiss me?" Ah! This attitude drove me literally insane. I'm sure there are people who think like this, but I find it to be fake, awkward, and frankly a tad crazy. Some of Digit's thoughts were really unhinged and there is no way anyone would actually think some of them in real life.
John was also such a meh character. He was chivalrous, I guess, but I don't even really have any other words to describe this guy. He doesn't seem like he would make the best FBI agent, yet obviously that was one of his main roles in the story. I'm not convinced that someone in his position would actually reciprocate Digit's feelings, but for the sake of the book, I knew it was going to happen by page three.
The plot itself was also not the most convincing either. The things that Digit deciphers seem a bit out there for someone who has no training and is just "good with numbers." Also, the fact that the terrorist group wanted to kill her so insistently was also a tad weird due to the fact that she had very little evidence she could have used against the group. But I guess they thought "better be safe than sorry." The way the dots connect are at once very predictable yet feel relatively sporadic. I can by no means say that this was a well-crafted mystery or that the book ever had me wondering what would happen next.
Another thing that really bothered me about this one is the chapter titles. They were honestly the most humorous part of the book, yet they had very little connection to what was actually happening in the story. I must admit though, short chapters definitely saved this book. If it was long winded, I would have completely hated every second of this book. Due to its length, it was at least tolerable, despite the corny, bizarre, weirdness that was the entire story.
Overall, I don't even know what "A Girl Named Digit" really is. It is first and foremost a corny romance that had elements of a mystery thriller in it. Predictably, the romance and the mystery both fell flat to me, so this book completely missed its mark in my opinion. I had very low expectations going into this one, and I feel that they were fulfilled just as I expected them to be. I think I'm still going to pick up book two, even though I care very little about Digit and John as characters. I have this habit of completing things, and since my library owns the sequel too, I might as well stick with it.
Farrah "Digit" spends the majority of her time pretending that she's normal by doing basic high schooler activities such as going to parties, watching romance shows with her friends, and hanging out with her clique. Then one day, she finds herself caught up in an investigation, hunted by terrorists, and accompanied by the hottest man that she's ever met: John the undercover agent. As she proves her worth to the FBI and the case, can she also convince John that she's worth taking a risk on romantically?
This book was very cringe in so many different ways. My number one pet peeve had to be how thirsty Digit is throughout the book. She comments on how attractive literally every man she meets is (except for the dude she dubs "Creepy"). And as soon as she meets John she's all, "Can necks be attractive?" "Maybe he'll accidentally touch my arm," "Do you think he'll kiss me?" Ah! This attitude drove me literally insane. I'm sure there are people who think like this, but I find it to be fake, awkward, and frankly a tad crazy. Some of Digit's thoughts were really unhinged and there is no way anyone would actually think some of them in real life.
John was also such a meh character. He was chivalrous, I guess, but I don't even really have any other words to describe this guy. He doesn't seem like he would make the best FBI agent, yet obviously that was one of his main roles in the story. I'm not convinced that someone in his position would actually reciprocate Digit's feelings, but for the sake of the book, I knew it was going to happen by page three.
The plot itself was also not the most convincing either. The things that Digit deciphers seem a bit out there for someone who has no training and is just "good with numbers." Also, the fact that the terrorist group wanted to kill her so insistently was also a tad weird due to the fact that she had very little evidence she could have used against the group. But I guess they thought "better be safe than sorry." The way the dots connect are at once very predictable yet feel relatively sporadic. I can by no means say that this was a well-crafted mystery or that the book ever had me wondering what would happen next.
Another thing that really bothered me about this one is the chapter titles. They were honestly the most humorous part of the book, yet they had very little connection to what was actually happening in the story. I must admit though, short chapters definitely saved this book. If it was long winded, I would have completely hated every second of this book. Due to its length, it was at least tolerable, despite the corny, bizarre, weirdness that was the entire story.
Overall, I don't even know what "A Girl Named Digit" really is. It is first and foremost a corny romance that had elements of a mystery thriller in it. Predictably, the romance and the mystery both fell flat to me, so this book completely missed its mark in my opinion. I had very low expectations going into this one, and I feel that they were fulfilled just as I expected them to be. I think I'm still going to pick up book two, even though I care very little about Digit and John as characters. I have this habit of completing things, and since my library owns the sequel too, I might as well stick with it.