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So I’m not a big romance reader but can appreciate what this book says about social norms, expectations for girls and what that awkward space of adolescence looks like between being a kid and growing into your own self.
But I thought the prose overall could have used a finer sweep of edits. Some lines throughout were just downright cliché (but hey! Maybe that’s because I’m not a romance girly, who knows.) I also wonder if the book overall could have been more successful if it had been written in the third person omniscient. I wonder this because the current first person perspective that the book is written in sometimes already teeters into third person omniscient territory, before snapping back into our narrator’s own mind again. As a reader, this wavering perspective at times took me out of the story and made me question: “Hmm how does the narrator even know all of this information about these characters.” It was unrealistic at times.
All in all, I did enjoy reading this book and found myself immersed in the character’s lives, stories and the setting. It wasn’t my favorite book in the world but not every read needs to be. It made me think about and critique different areas of society, which I believe good fiction should do. 3.5 stars.
But I thought the prose overall could have used a finer sweep of edits. Some lines throughout were just downright cliché (but hey! Maybe that’s because I’m not a romance girly, who knows.) I also wonder if the book overall could have been more successful if it had been written in the third person omniscient. I wonder this because the current first person perspective that the book is written in sometimes already teeters into third person omniscient territory, before snapping back into our narrator’s own mind again. As a reader, this wavering perspective at times took me out of the story and made me question: “Hmm how does the narrator even know all of this information about these characters.” It was unrealistic at times.
All in all, I did enjoy reading this book and found myself immersed in the character’s lives, stories and the setting. It wasn’t my favorite book in the world but not every read needs to be. It made me think about and critique different areas of society, which I believe good fiction should do. 3.5 stars.