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Stones To Abbigale
by Onision
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This book was terrible. The writing was awful, the characters were awful, and the plot was awful. The plot was basically James getting together with Abbi. All he ever talked about was Abbi, her name is probably on almost every page. Any conflict that was brought up would be resolved as soon as it happened and the scenes switched at a constant quick rate. One paragraph would be about the characters in class and the next paragraph they would be in a different setting.
A lot of events or how the characters acted did not seem very believable (Jason randomly interrupting a class and insulting the teacher, James walking into Abbi's class and making out with her, the fight between James and the jocks).
James' best friend Davis, did not have a purpose other than kissing James' ass and dying. The only time he was mentioned was whenever James' would take the bus to and from school, where Davis would yell about how amazing James was. He was also in a few other scenes where he was either acting out of the ordinary (was not explained but I can assume he was depressed after the shooting and that's how he coped, and or jealous of Abbi). I felt his death had no purpose to the story. James are sad other Davis' death but that's it. His death didn't change James as a person or change his view of the word or anything like that.
James was an awful character. He was obsessed with Abbi both before and while dating her as if she was the only person in the world (not in a cute way). He would get into fights with characters only to not get suffer any consequences (other than the part where he got suspended for pushing someone and getting beat up). James also did not care for his sister at all. He called her boy hungry and thought of her as an annoyance he wasn't able to tune out. When he found out about his sister being upset over a boy she liked who has passed away, he said it was none of his business and never talked about her for the rest of the book. Even if they don't have that close of a relationship, he should have still tried to comfort her. He cares more about Abbi than his sister.
I think my favourite line would have to be "I am ashamed and somewhat terrified by how little I seemed to care about most everyone else outside her." This line shows that James is self aware of how he is behaving but he doesn't do anything to fix it. By the end of the novel, he was still the same character as he was at the beginning of the book. There was no character development at all.
This book is just as awful as Onision.
This book was terrible. The writing was awful, the characters were awful, and the plot was awful. The plot was basically James getting together with Abbi. All he ever talked about was Abbi, her name is probably on almost every page. Any conflict that was brought up would be resolved as soon as it happened and the scenes switched at a constant quick rate. One paragraph would be about the characters in class and the next paragraph they would be in a different setting.
A lot of events or how the characters acted did not seem very believable (Jason randomly interrupting a class and insulting the teacher, James walking into Abbi's class and making out with her, the fight between James and the jocks).
James' best friend Davis, did not have a purpose other than kissing James' ass and dying. The only time he was mentioned was whenever James' would take the bus to and from school, where Davis would yell about how amazing James was. He was also in a few other scenes where he was either acting out of the ordinary (was not explained but I can assume he was depressed after the shooting and that's how he coped, and or jealous of Abbi). I felt his death had no purpose to the story. James are sad other Davis' death but that's it. His death didn't change James as a person or change his view of the word or anything like that.
James was an awful character. He was obsessed with Abbi both before and while dating her as if she was the only person in the world (not in a cute way). He would get into fights with characters only to not get suffer any consequences (other than the part where he got suspended for pushing someone and getting beat up). James also did not care for his sister at all. He called her boy hungry and thought of her as an annoyance he wasn't able to tune out. When he found out about his sister being upset over a boy she liked who has passed away, he said it was none of his business and never talked about her for the rest of the book. Even if they don't have that close of a relationship, he should have still tried to comfort her. He cares more about Abbi than his sister.
I think my favourite line would have to be "I am ashamed and somewhat terrified by how little I seemed to care about most everyone else outside her." This line shows that James is self aware of how he is behaving but he doesn't do anything to fix it. By the end of the novel, he was still the same character as he was at the beginning of the book. There was no character development at all.
This book is just as awful as Onision.