heyitsyii 's review for:

The Futures by Anna Pitoniak
2.0

This made me angry. Why? Because the main characters (mainly Julia, actually) seemed so self righteous even though they (knew they) were doing things they shouldn't have been doing.

Call me naive, but why does one need to fuck up (numerous times) in order to realize hmm maybe I shouldn't be doing that? That it's wrong? You don't have to, that's what. Maybe it's hindsight, foresight, or just plain thinking and analyzing. (it's like how a ridiculous number of people believe everyone needs to have religion in order to be moral and ethical. That's so insanely false. People can just be without outside pressures and/or personal experiences. But this is a conversation for another time.) Maybe I think too highly of people, have too high expectations, or am simply out of touch lol. Though, this is true of most books - there are main characters, at least one fucks up, and that's what the book's about, what happened, why, and usually, the result. Other books do it better though.

So I have no sympathy for Julia. At all. Boohoo no one loves you. I wonder why, you cheat. Even in fiction, karma exists.

Evan seemed to be less malicious and nefarious. He was mostly caught up in something bigger than him, and was so out of his element. But, he could have done something after he found out, yes.

Stories like this... make me upset that I don't have enough free time (and/or perhaps will to finish anything) to write my own books.