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A review by endlessreader
Signs of You by Emily France
2.0
It's so disheartening to realize that it's been a long while since I've read an honest to goodness GREAT YA book (a YA book rated higher than 3 stars). It was in March. A whole four months ago. It's not for lack of trying, either. Unfortunately for me (and I guess just for me because the ratings for this book on GR are through the roof), Signs of You was no exception.
Signs of You had so much potential to be great. I tend to like books that deal with loss, so I had assumed that I would like this one. And, for the most part, I did like the parts that focused on coping with the lost of a loved one. That was the one aspect of Signs of You that I thought was mostly well done. It's everything else that lost me.
The whole St. Ignacious thing bored me to freaking tears. It was so, so underwhelming. In fact, the whole paranormal aspect of this book was underwhelming. It just never clicked for me. And seeing as how that's a big bulk of Signs of You, that means that the book as a whole never clicked for me. I was also bored by all of the main characters and disliked Riley for most of the book considering she spent most of her time worried about romance when real shit was going down. These characters just weren't engaging. The only characters I was interested in were Riley's dad and that out of college librarian with the Peter Pan collared shirt (who didn't have a name because she was barely in the book, but managed to be more interesting than everything and everyone else). Yeah, not good. I also didn't buy the whole romance thing that happened in the end considering that the MC spent most of her time infatuated with a whole other person.
Overall, I found Signs of You to be completely underwhelming. I was never engaged with the story and thought it dragged way too much (which is surprising given how short it is). And so my quest to read a YA novel that's not just okay/mediocre this summer continues.
Signs of You had so much potential to be great. I tend to like books that deal with loss, so I had assumed that I would like this one. And, for the most part, I did like the parts that focused on coping with the lost of a loved one. That was the one aspect of Signs of You that I thought was mostly well done. It's everything else that lost me.
The whole St. Ignacious thing bored me to freaking tears. It was so, so underwhelming. In fact, the whole paranormal aspect of this book was underwhelming. It just never clicked for me. And seeing as how that's a big bulk of Signs of You, that means that the book as a whole never clicked for me. I was also bored by all of the main characters and disliked Riley for most of the book considering she spent most of her time worried about romance when real shit was going down. These characters just weren't engaging. The only characters I was interested in were Riley's dad and that out of college librarian with the Peter Pan collared shirt (who didn't have a name because she was barely in the book, but managed to be more interesting than everything and everyone else). Yeah, not good. I also didn't buy the whole romance thing that happened in the end considering that the MC spent most of her time infatuated with a whole other person.
Overall, I found Signs of You to be completely underwhelming. I was never engaged with the story and thought it dragged way too much (which is surprising given how short it is). And so my quest to read a YA novel that's not just okay/mediocre this summer continues.