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Providence
by Caroline Kepnes
This book and I didn't get along.
I simply didn't get it. Honestly - both Jon and Chloe were hard for me to identify with; their relationship, the events that happened, the fantastical aspect of this book ... it was all too much.
Jon and Chloe are apparently best friends: this is told to us in the book blurb, if you read the first chapter, the one that sets everything up, you know that Jon is ostracized at school, that Chloe is the cool kid that is nice to him, when it suits her. But would I say that they are best friends or great loves? Heck no, that does not come across.
Jon goes missing - he is kidnapped by a teacher and disappears for 4 years. While he is away, Chloe begins painting Jon, in an attempt to remember him.
4 years later, Jon wakes up in a strange room, remembering absolutely nothing. Left with only a copy of a book and a letter written in it telling Jon that he "did good" and "good luck". Jon returns to his life only things aren't all as they seem. It turns out that Jon has an affect on those close to him ... if he gets to close or feels too much towards them they end up having a heart attack and dying.
It makes for coming back to his life pretty useless since he can't get close to Chloe. But since he doesn't understand what's happening, he can't tell her why he is staying away.
The result is two lovelorn people who pine for one another ... and leaves the reader frustrated. I had such a hard time getting into this book and allowing my imagination to carry me away.
Thrown in for good measure is a cop named Eggs who becomes obsessed with all these young people dying of heart attacks and trying to find justice by tracking down the murderer. Eggs wasn't a bad character, but it just felt so pointless a plot-line that didn't really help the story along.
I can't pinpoint exactly why I didn't like this book - but it really just wasn't for me.
Thank you Netgalley and Random House for an advanced copy in return for an honest review.
1.5 star read.
I simply didn't get it. Honestly - both Jon and Chloe were hard for me to identify with; their relationship, the events that happened, the fantastical aspect of this book ... it was all too much.
Jon and Chloe are apparently best friends: this is told to us in the book blurb, if you read the first chapter, the one that sets everything up, you know that Jon is ostracized at school, that Chloe is the cool kid that is nice to him, when it suits her. But would I say that they are best friends or great loves? Heck no, that does not come across.
Jon goes missing - he is kidnapped by a teacher and disappears for 4 years. While he is away, Chloe begins painting Jon, in an attempt to remember him.
4 years later, Jon wakes up in a strange room, remembering absolutely nothing. Left with only a copy of a book and a letter written in it telling Jon that he "did good" and "good luck". Jon returns to his life only things aren't all as they seem. It turns out that Jon has an affect on those close to him ... if he gets to close or feels too much towards them they end up having a heart attack and dying.
It makes for coming back to his life pretty useless since he can't get close to Chloe. But since he doesn't understand what's happening, he can't tell her why he is staying away.
The result is two lovelorn people who pine for one another ... and leaves the reader frustrated. I had such a hard time getting into this book and allowing my imagination to carry me away.
Thrown in for good measure is a cop named Eggs who becomes obsessed with all these young people dying of heart attacks and trying to find justice by tracking down the murderer. Eggs wasn't a bad character, but it just felt so pointless a plot-line that didn't really help the story along.
I can't pinpoint exactly why I didn't like this book - but it really just wasn't for me.
Thank you Netgalley and Random House for an advanced copy in return for an honest review.
1.5 star read.