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The Manic Pixie Dream Boy Improvement Project
by Lenore Appelhans
Welcome to Tropetown, where your worst fears are realized and tropes are literally everwhere
2.5/5 stars
I was provided an early copy by Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review
Here's the thing: this book was enjoyable and different but it just could've been taken so much further. And I do realize it is a huge tribute to the tropes and will play into them. I just thought it would be a bit more satirical than this.
I don't know, the characters all felt incredibly flat to me. Which is interesting, because this entire story is about Manic Pixies taking charge of their own stories and becoming more developed. They just seemed to play into their tropes and their main characteristics were their tropes, which I get is what happens in novels the tropes are in, but it seemed to go against the whole point of the story.
Also there were a lot of random plot lines that I found to be underdeveloped and strange. As well as secondary characters that seemed unnecessary. The romance is also left unfinished at the end of the story and I hate when that happens. It also becomes a love triangle, one of my least favourite tropes. And it isn't resolved once the story ends!
It also introduces this random racism/sexism challenge within the last 20% which wasn't developed at all, and was hardly effective. It, in all honesty, just seemed like an afterthought thrown in by the author to give the book more depth. It just seemed forced.
I just figured reading this story would be a fun and original look at tropes in novels and perhaps give me more appreciation for their purpose in a story. However, it was just a novel with an excuse to be 100% tropes with no actual original content. They weren't really expanded past what you expect their tropes to be and I was left feeling pretty disappointed at the end.
2.5/5 stars
I was provided an early copy by Netgalley and the publisher in exchange for an honest review
Here's the thing: this book was enjoyable and different but it just could've been taken so much further. And I do realize it is a huge tribute to the tropes and will play into them. I just thought it would be a bit more satirical than this.
I don't know, the characters all felt incredibly flat to me. Which is interesting, because this entire story is about Manic Pixies taking charge of their own stories and becoming more developed. They just seemed to play into their tropes and their main characteristics were their tropes, which I get is what happens in novels the tropes are in, but it seemed to go against the whole point of the story.
Also there were a lot of random plot lines that I found to be underdeveloped and strange. As well as secondary characters that seemed unnecessary. The romance is also left unfinished at the end of the story and I hate when that happens. It also becomes a love triangle, one of my least favourite tropes. And it isn't resolved once the story ends!
It also introduces this random racism/sexism challenge within the last 20% which wasn't developed at all, and was hardly effective. It, in all honesty, just seemed like an afterthought thrown in by the author to give the book more depth. It just seemed forced.
I just figured reading this story would be a fun and original look at tropes in novels and perhaps give me more appreciation for their purpose in a story. However, it was just a novel with an excuse to be 100% tropes with no actual original content. They weren't really expanded past what you expect their tropes to be and I was left feeling pretty disappointed at the end.