We'll catch up with the twins, get a little socially lubricated. 'Tis the season for girls to dress like hookers. I just can't stay focused on writing like this! It's almost as exciting as watching paint dry. have you fallen asleep yet? I don't know, but for me, this kind of writing is incredibly bland and formulaic: I woke up and did a. My phone was buzzing on my bedside table, and I rolled over. Then I lay down with my face to the wall and pulled the covers over my head. "I yanked off my T-shirt and pulled the shades down.
To give you some idea of what I'm talking about, imagine reading something like this for 340 pages, and you'll get the picture very quickly: It was serious work just trying to slog through each chapter. Speaking of tortured, the writing was just awful. In the end, Mackie was just a male version of Bella Swan- empty, dull, bland, vapid- and I couldn't bring myself to care about what happened to him either. I have a difficult time sympathizing with a character who does nothing but whine and complain all the time, even if it's for a legitimate reason. Usually I love reading from a guy's point of view ( Ship Breaker, Leviathan- amazing.) but I could not connect with him at all.ī.) get nauseous or faint every time he was around metal or blood or loud noises or strong smells or slight air currentsĬ.) lust after Alice the slutty hot girl in school, orĭ.) talk about how incredibly fake everyone is in town. Then there was Mackie Doyle, the "tortured soul" main character. I didn't like these characters, therefore I didn't care what happened to them. I guess the cover is what attracted me to read this book in the first place, but honestly, great packaging and poor content does not equal a good book.įirst, there were the thoroughly unlikable characters: Tate was an angry stalker full of contempt towards Mackie, Roswell was a total perv who treated women like pieces of meat, Mackie's parents were typical and stereotyped and completely unwilling to do anything useful, and everyone else was easily forgettable.
I'm really not sure what I was expecting it to be, but I definitely wasn't thinking it would be a lame high school drama mixed with painfully dull characters and even more painfully boring and lackluster writing. So to put it simply, I was not a fan of this book.
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