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A review by alishaduh
Big Bones by Laura Dockrill
2.0
Okay so this book's story was generally okay and I liked the message of getting healthier that went with it. However, virtually everything else I was either 'meh' about or 'no.' about.
I'll start with something good. Some of the descriptions about fat-phobia (for lack of a better word) and what it's like to be fat were so spot on I really really related to them!! It felt like I was the one writing the book at those moments and they were so well written.
But those mere 5/6 paragraphs throughout the whole thing were really the only decent bit of writing.
Let's talk about the writing (!!!) in general. It was honestly so bad. The constant use of capitals WHERE THEY WEREN'T NECESSARY!! And the use of exclamation marks in every 5th sentence was !!!! Annoying!!! Also, some of the thoughts that were supposedly going through BB's (which is a silly nickname in my opinion because no one's going to call someone BB which takes more effort than saying Bluebelle) were so... All I can say is it's exactly as if an adult, who's forgotten mostly what it's like to be a teenager, would've written. E.g 'GRRRR!!!!!' no, no & no.
The romance was rushed as well. Like yeah, they may've had secret crushes on each other and may have shown it a tiny bit but like... Wheeling her out of work and then asking 'lol do u wanna be my girlfriend?' was so damn fast... I was not about that.
Also, the way they talked about Dove after her accident?? It was like she'd died or something! And being confined to a wheelchair for six months is not the worst thing in the world and you don't need to live life 'recklessly' because your sister can't for a couple of months...
I don't know, I just don't think this book lived up to my expectations.
I'll start with something good. Some of the descriptions about fat-phobia (for lack of a better word) and what it's like to be fat were so spot on I really really related to them!! It felt like I was the one writing the book at those moments and they were so well written.
But those mere 5/6 paragraphs throughout the whole thing were really the only decent bit of writing.
Let's talk about the writing (!!!) in general. It was honestly so bad. The constant use of capitals WHERE THEY WEREN'T NECESSARY!! And the use of exclamation marks in every 5th sentence was !!!! Annoying!!! Also, some of the thoughts that were supposedly going through BB's (which is a silly nickname in my opinion because no one's going to call someone BB which takes more effort than saying Bluebelle) were so... All I can say is it's exactly as if an adult, who's forgotten mostly what it's like to be a teenager, would've written. E.g 'GRRRR!!!!!' no, no & no.
The romance was rushed as well. Like yeah, they may've had secret crushes on each other and may have shown it a tiny bit but like... Wheeling her out of work and then asking 'lol do u wanna be my girlfriend?' was so damn fast... I was not about that.
Also, the way they talked about Dove after her accident?? It was like she'd died or something! And being confined to a wheelchair for six months is not the worst thing in the world and you don't need to live life 'recklessly' because your sister can't for a couple of months...
I don't know, I just don't think this book lived up to my expectations.