A review by amaandaplz
Astrid Sees All by Natalie Standiford

2.5

This book had everything I look for most in a book- female friendship, grief/death, and partying/drugs oh my! The characters, especially the two main female characters were certainly interesting enough to read about with enough interesting stuff in their lives to tell a captivating enough story about, yet it somehow just didn't do it for me. I felt like all of the boring and unimportant parts were focused on way too much, where as the more exciting and more important aspects often felt rushed through. I really wish the author had kept these characters and this world of theirs but just gone back and told the story differently by cutting out a lot of unimportant parts (for example, so many long scenes of her reading random fortunes that were fairly boring and ultimately irrelevant to the story) and replaced these pages with something more exciting that could also somehow create a more cohesive story.