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Foolish Hearts
by Emma Mills
*DNF at page 100*
Normally I don’t give star ratings to books I DNF but I have such strong feelings against this book that I felt like I needed to convey that in my star rating.
Other than some phallic humour (which I will admit, made me laugh) this book feels like it was written for a 12 year old.
The main characters name isn’t even mentioned until chapter 3. That is something that should have been included in the first chapter to help set up the story. That was my first red flag about this book. I went two full chapters without knowing the name of the main character. That was actually the only issue I had with the first chapter, other than that I mildly was intrigued by what the first chapter was setting up. And then it all went downhill.
So many pages were dedicated to either the video game that Claudia likes or the boy band that Iris likes. And after the first paragraph of each of these being describe my mind went “wait, the character is still stalking about this?? *flips page to check* how long do they talk about this for? Is this even relevant? I really do not care about every single detail about a video game or boy band that a character likes.” I ended up skipping over paragraphs and then pages of this book whenever either of these topics were brought up because I did not care about them at all! Maybe they ended duo actually having something to do with the plot, I don’t know, I didn’t finish it. But if they are essential to the plot, then I should not be that bored while reading about them. This is only a 300 page book, how many of these pages are wasted describing these things excessively?
Iris is supposed to be like a bully. She doesn’t even act like a bully though. She’s just grumpy the entire time because she got dumped. And the who does Claudia bother being nice to her? Iris is negative and annoying and grumpy and a bore. She literally sulks in the corner of every chapter! Why is she even worth a second glance from Claudia? Claudia should have just walked away from Iris or told her off or something!! Not try to be nice to someone who is being grumpy and threatened her once. Both iris and Claudia were so annoying with how they acted. For supposedly senior year high school characters, they sure acted like 10 year olds.
I don’t even know what to say about Gideon, he’s just disaster. Gideon is the guy who excessively flirts with every single girl. Legit taking pictures with all of them where he’s kissing them on the cheek. And yet this is the supposed love interest? Ugh. If this guy came anywhere near me I’d call him out for the type of guy he is, an attention seeking pretty boy who makes all girls think they are “special” when in fact he is playing all of them for fools. He’s the guy that somehow every girl has a crush on, and every guy wants to be friends with. Ugh. So sickeningly cliche.
To add to the cliche-ness of this book, we gotta add in some of the worst case of insta love I have ever come across. “Omg she’s the girl who’s not like other girls, I’ve never noticed her before even though we’ve actually know each other for years, she’s so beautiful and mysterious I must have her!” Followed by: “what? Like him? No of course I don’t! I’m not like the other girls! His charms won’t work on me. He flirts with everyone and all those girls are fools for falling for him. Why is he taking pictures with other girls? Why is he kissing other girls? He is supposed to want me, we had one phone conversation so it’s obvious it’s me he wants! But no I totally don’t have feelings for him back...”
I couldn’t believe this book was serious. I must have picked up the wrong book, got the title mixed up or something because no way this book I read is the one that everyone is rating so highly. But wait...yes it is. I read 100 pages... exactly 1/3 of this book and I had such extreme feelings against this book! I can’t remember the last time I have truly disliked a book this much.
Normally I don’t give star ratings to books I DNF but I have such strong feelings against this book that I felt like I needed to convey that in my star rating.
Other than some phallic humour (which I will admit, made me laugh) this book feels like it was written for a 12 year old.
The main characters name isn’t even mentioned until chapter 3. That is something that should have been included in the first chapter to help set up the story. That was my first red flag about this book. I went two full chapters without knowing the name of the main character. That was actually the only issue I had with the first chapter, other than that I mildly was intrigued by what the first chapter was setting up. And then it all went downhill.
So many pages were dedicated to either the video game that Claudia likes or the boy band that Iris likes. And after the first paragraph of each of these being describe my mind went “wait, the character is still stalking about this?? *flips page to check* how long do they talk about this for? Is this even relevant? I really do not care about every single detail about a video game or boy band that a character likes.” I ended up skipping over paragraphs and then pages of this book whenever either of these topics were brought up because I did not care about them at all! Maybe they ended duo actually having something to do with the plot, I don’t know, I didn’t finish it. But if they are essential to the plot, then I should not be that bored while reading about them. This is only a 300 page book, how many of these pages are wasted describing these things excessively?
Iris is supposed to be like a bully. She doesn’t even act like a bully though. She’s just grumpy the entire time because she got dumped. And the who does Claudia bother being nice to her? Iris is negative and annoying and grumpy and a bore. She literally sulks in the corner of every chapter! Why is she even worth a second glance from Claudia? Claudia should have just walked away from Iris or told her off or something!! Not try to be nice to someone who is being grumpy and threatened her once. Both iris and Claudia were so annoying with how they acted. For supposedly senior year high school characters, they sure acted like 10 year olds.
I don’t even know what to say about Gideon, he’s just disaster. Gideon is the guy who excessively flirts with every single girl. Legit taking pictures with all of them where he’s kissing them on the cheek. And yet this is the supposed love interest? Ugh. If this guy came anywhere near me I’d call him out for the type of guy he is, an attention seeking pretty boy who makes all girls think they are “special” when in fact he is playing all of them for fools. He’s the guy that somehow every girl has a crush on, and every guy wants to be friends with. Ugh. So sickeningly cliche.
To add to the cliche-ness of this book, we gotta add in some of the worst case of insta love I have ever come across. “Omg she’s the girl who’s not like other girls, I’ve never noticed her before even though we’ve actually know each other for years, she’s so beautiful and mysterious I must have her!” Followed by: “what? Like him? No of course I don’t! I’m not like the other girls! His charms won’t work on me. He flirts with everyone and all those girls are fools for falling for him. Why is he taking pictures with other girls? Why is he kissing other girls? He is supposed to want me, we had one phone conversation so it’s obvious it’s me he wants! But no I totally don’t have feelings for him back...”
I couldn’t believe this book was serious. I must have picked up the wrong book, got the title mixed up or something because no way this book I read is the one that everyone is rating so highly. But wait...yes it is. I read 100 pages... exactly 1/3 of this book and I had such extreme feelings against this book! I can’t remember the last time I have truly disliked a book this much.