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missmariss732 's review for:
Hearts, Strings, and Other Breakable Things
by Jacqueline Firkins
I really wanted to like this. I was looking for a cute contemporary after reading a ton of fantasy and I'm just super disappointed how this book turned out. I'm a big fan of cheesy romcoms, but I feel as though this book tried too hard to be the Jane Austen novel it was echoing. It was cliche after cliche followed by an incredible amount of problematic situations.
Slightly Spoiler section:
The theme of cheating throughout the book was an immediate turn off. And the fact that it was a continuing factor throughout the plot without any real repercussions made matters so much worse.
So many of the characters were problematic but Edie annoyed me the most. Apparently Edie wanted to focus on school rather than boys (as stated in the tagline of the book) but from the start Edie's boy troubles consume the pages. It would have been better if Edie at least tried to focus on school and then was sucked back into the drama but there was never really that back and forth.
I also thought there were too many 'quirks'. The book went back and forth between quoting outdated books, song lyrics, man walks into a bar jokes (this one I actually liked), and a repetition of 'the age of whatever' to describe where Edie was at in the story. It felt like the author was putting too many lines out hoping one would catch.
The I only things I really liked about the story were Henry (despite being problematic him trying to win over Edie was super sweet and showed character growth even though by the end he reverted back) and the lexicon entries which was basically the only thing I found unique about the book.
Slightly Spoiler section:
The theme of cheating throughout the book was an immediate turn off. And the fact that it was a continuing factor throughout the plot without any real repercussions made matters so much worse.
So many of the characters were problematic but Edie annoyed me the most. Apparently Edie wanted to focus on school rather than boys (as stated in the tagline of the book) but from the start Edie's boy troubles consume the pages. It would have been better if Edie at least tried to focus on school and then was sucked back into the drama but there was never really that back and forth.
I also thought there were too many 'quirks'. The book went back and forth between quoting outdated books, song lyrics, man walks into a bar jokes (this one I actually liked), and a repetition of 'the age of whatever' to describe where Edie was at in the story. It felt like the author was putting too many lines out hoping one would catch.
The I only things I really liked about the story were Henry (despite being problematic him trying to win over Edie was super sweet and showed character growth even though by the end he reverted back) and the lexicon entries which was basically the only thing I found unique about the book.