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do you know the feeling you get when you see a thing enough times and you start tolerating it bc fine, you're here, i guess, but have no feelings of real enjoyment? basically a book-in-law. that is heartless to me. i've been gaslighting myself into liking this, but the more i revisit my highlights (reading with a book club), the more i realize how incredibly bland it is.
heartless is supposed to be this extremely romantic, depressing, overwhelming book, and i simply don't see it. the writing is juvenile and entirely lacking of any emotional depth. something i've noticed that everyone says about heartless is that it's easy to read. it is. to the point that the prose resembles something out of a middle school contemporary book instead of what it's meant to be, a FANTASY. i understand it's young adult, but why is the complexity of the writing equivalent to the babysitter's club? the ending is rushed. the rest of it drags on and on. the characters, unfortunately, have zero depth. you can find this relationship dynamic in any fantasy book (scarlettjulian and evajacks to name a few) and i didn't really expect it to be groundbreaking (okay i did because of how people talk about it), but plenty of authors make it work because of their prose. and prose is just not one of heartless's strong suits. not that anything really is, but regardless. the writing was underwhelming to the point that i didn't even care about the major twist. it was very, "oh, is that it?" just. okay, i guess.
i will always like cathjest because the edits did, in fact, give me the emotional connection i wanted, but not a single positive feeling i have in regards to them results from the book itself. i've seen cathjest posts from 16 year olds on twitter that portray their melancholy better than meyer's writing.
if you want the boring version of evajacks (cough, scarlettjulian, cough), this is for you. as for me, i am so glad meyer went to a writing class after this, and i got serilda.
heartless is supposed to be this extremely romantic, depressing, overwhelming book, and i simply don't see it. the writing is juvenile and entirely lacking of any emotional depth. something i've noticed that everyone says about heartless is that it's easy to read. it is. to the point that the prose resembles something out of a middle school contemporary book instead of what it's meant to be, a FANTASY. i understand it's young adult, but why is the complexity of the writing equivalent to the babysitter's club? the ending is rushed. the rest of it drags on and on. the characters, unfortunately, have zero depth. you can find this relationship dynamic in any fantasy book (scarlettjulian and evajacks to name a few) and i didn't really expect it to be groundbreaking (okay i did because of how people talk about it), but plenty of authors make it work because of their prose. and prose is just not one of heartless's strong suits. not that anything really is, but regardless. the writing was underwhelming to the point that i didn't even care about the major twist. it was very, "oh, is that it?" just. okay, i guess.
i will always like cathjest because the edits did, in fact, give me the emotional connection i wanted, but not a single positive feeling i have in regards to them results from the book itself. i've seen cathjest posts from 16 year olds on twitter that portray their melancholy better than meyer's writing.
if you want the boring version of evajacks (cough, scarlettjulian, cough), this is for you. as for me, i am so glad meyer went to a writing class after this, and i got serilda.