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A review by ana_az_books
The Conspiracy of Us by Maggie Hall
1.0
I would not have forced myself to read this if it weren't for a reading challenge.
This was extremely boring. Avery West, the main character, seems like a Mary Sue. She seriously has purple eyes. She also shallowly lusts after the other male characters in the book who aren't gay. Her attraction to Jack in particular makes me roll my eyes every time it's mentioned.
Even though overall I find the story bad, there were a few things that I sort of liked about it. One was about how Stellan uses knives instead of guns because it's harder to kill someone with a knife. I also liked these quotes:
"I wasn't longing for anything, I'd told Stellan, and it was true, in a way. But maybe that was exactly what I was missing. Letting myself ache for something, even if I wasn't guaranteed a happy ending,"
and
"Toska. Wanting something you might not even understand. How was it that other languages could express things so much better than ours?"
But they were not enough to raise my rating from one star, and I have absolutely no plans to read the sequels.
This was extremely boring. Avery West, the main character, seems like a Mary Sue. She seriously has purple eyes. She also shallowly lusts after the other male characters in the book who aren't gay. Her attraction to Jack in particular makes me roll my eyes every time it's mentioned.
Even though overall I find the story bad, there were a few things that I sort of liked about it. One was
"I wasn't longing for anything, I'd told Stellan, and it was true, in a way. But maybe that was exactly what I was missing. Letting myself ache for something, even if I wasn't guaranteed a happy ending,"
and
"Toska. Wanting something you might not even understand. How was it that other languages could express things so much better than ours?"
But they were not enough to raise my rating from one star, and I have absolutely no plans to read the sequels.