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A review by chyina
Change by Melissa Stevens
2.0
For all of those who may be confused, this book is not about nine-tailed foxes as the Japanese title of the series would have you to believe. Instead it is about wolf-shifters. Disappointed? I was as well.
Nickie goes on a hike with her close friend Brandon and ends up getting bitten by a rattlesnake. The venom causes something in her to change and then she realizes she is no longer human. Luckily Brandon was there, he knows what to do. But now she has to get used to being stronger and faster and keeping secrets from her family, something she has never done.
The time table is a bit confusing and Nickie feels flat and reactive for the first half of the novel, it was quite a struggle to read. As other characters come in the story grows more interesting but it still reads as a sort of daily journal. Not the kind you are excited about but the mandatory ones you had to write during summer for a class project.
***Anger alert***
Stevens decides to use the term "ethnic" to describe all non-white identities. Why? I have no idea, it is rude to do so and I have no idea what made her decide to do it. That is one of the most ridiculous terms that anyone could use to describe marginalized populations as it tries to free these groups from labels what really happens is that when it is written or said, it sounds like you just don't care enough to give an ethnicity or nationality. It's lazy writing.
Nickie goes on a hike with her close friend Brandon and ends up getting bitten by a rattlesnake. The venom causes something in her to change and then she realizes she is no longer human. Luckily Brandon was there, he knows what to do. But now she has to get used to being stronger and faster and keeping secrets from her family, something she has never done.
The time table is a bit confusing and Nickie feels flat and reactive for the first half of the novel, it was quite a struggle to read. As other characters come in the story grows more interesting but it still reads as a sort of daily journal. Not the kind you are excited about but the mandatory ones you had to write during summer for a class project.
***Anger alert***
Stevens decides to use the term "ethnic" to describe all non-white identities. Why? I have no idea, it is rude to do so and I have no idea what made her decide to do it. That is one of the most ridiculous terms that anyone could use to describe marginalized populations as it tries to free these groups from labels what really happens is that when it is written or said, it sounds like you just don't care enough to give an ethnicity or nationality. It's lazy writing.