A review by loiereads
Fly on The Wall by E. Lockhart

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes

2.0

"𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙨 𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚𝙫𝙚𝙧, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙮𝙤𝙪'𝙡𝙡 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙩," 𝙝𝙚 𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙡𝙨 𝙢𝙚. "𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙛𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙮𝙤𝙪 𝙠𝙣𝙤𝙬 𝙞𝙩." 

"𝙄'𝙙 𝙡𝙤𝙫𝙚 𝙩𝙤 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚," 𝙄 𝙨𝙖𝙮. "𝙎𝙞𝙭𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙧𝙞𝙗𝙡𝙚." 

"𝙉𝙤, 𝙣𝙤," 𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙖𝙮𝙨, 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙤𝙡𝙙 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 𝙙𝙤 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙮'𝙧𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙖𝙗𝙤𝙪𝙩 𝙗𝙚𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙜. "𝙎𝙞𝙭𝙩𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚. 𝙔𝙤𝙪 𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙪𝙧𝙚 𝙞𝙩."

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I’m honestly not too sure how to feel about this book. It was strange, kinda weird, pervy and uncomfortable. 

Having really enjoyed reading E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars and Family Of Liars, I did have high, high hopes, I have to admit. So coming from those and reading this, you can kinda see why I feel disappointed. 

I just feel as though there wasn’t that much change that came from Gretchen’s experience. Like yes, it allowed her to understand boys a bit better, but it never lead her to achieve much aside from talking to the boy she fancies. And I just feel like it gives off the message that the only thing a girl can truly accomplish is become confident enough to talk to her crush. Staying true to herself and standing up to her art teacher by protecting her preferred art style was only minority touched upon, and I think this would have been a much better, more valuable outcome to the story. 

I don’t know, I’m sure there’s a much larger picture that I’m probably missing, but I can’t lie and have to admit that I just found this one a bit bizarre.