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A review by mea9an
The Wanderers by Meg Howrey
1.0
I don’t think I’ve ever read a book that was this... bland. It was just so boring. All of the characters ultimately blended together because none of them had an interesting personality. They were just cardboard cutouts of the same person with a slightly different story.
The writing was even worse. Meg Howrey writes as if she’s explaining the story to you in a conversational way and not in the movie-in-your-head way. It’s almost like she’s writing to an idiot and I’m the idiot. I can assure you, I’m not stupid so you don’t have to tell me something over and over because I’m not going to like it. Also, it’s perfectly fine to have complex characters and I don’t think she understands that.
The only thing I can say I like about this book is the plot, but even that couldn’t hold my interest for longer than three pages before I had to put it down.
This book could’ve been something but all it is is a textbook with some people in it. I honestly can’t say there is anything good about this. I tried so hard to find one character in this book that I liked in any way, but I just couldn’t. I wanted to like this book, I really did. The premise is so interesting and books about astronauts have so much potential, but the author shouldn’t have even tried.
Meg Howrey has so many options on how to write this and in the end she just didn’t execute the plot the way it should’ve been written.
The writing was even worse. Meg Howrey writes as if she’s explaining the story to you in a conversational way and not in the movie-in-your-head way. It’s almost like she’s writing to an idiot and I’m the idiot. I can assure you, I’m not stupid so you don’t have to tell me something over and over because I’m not going to like it. Also, it’s perfectly fine to have complex characters and I don’t think she understands that.
The only thing I can say I like about this book is the plot, but even that couldn’t hold my interest for longer than three pages before I had to put it down.
This book could’ve been something but all it is is a textbook with some people in it. I honestly can’t say there is anything good about this. I tried so hard to find one character in this book that I liked in any way, but I just couldn’t. I wanted to like this book, I really did. The premise is so interesting and books about astronauts have so much potential, but the author shouldn’t have even tried.
Meg Howrey has so many options on how to write this and in the end she just didn’t execute the plot the way it should’ve been written.