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2.67 AVERAGE
2.67 AVERAGE
I have conflicted feelings about this book. From page one I was instantly sucked in and to me, it felt like there was this feeling like something absolutely horrendous was going to happen. Granted, bad things do indeed happen, but not of the sort it feels like the story is directing things toward. It goes back and forth between being very slow and spending way too much time on things that I found to be boring and moving almost too fast, not allowing for the bigger events and the consequences of them to fully develop. The way the lead character reacts to these events and the people she meets feels a bit unrealistic. Several tropes that have become common in YA find themselves at home in this New Adult story. However, I did find myself enjoying this book. When I picked it up, I did not want to put it back down. When I did put it down, though, I did not find myself missing it.
I made it a third of the way into this book and just couldn't continue. I thought it would center more on the circus and be an inspirational story of a young girl finding herself during a summer trip as a dancer for her boyfriend's band and I was instead incredibly disappointed. There were too many loose ends from the very beginning, lots of cliches in Kessler's writing, and all of the characters were very stereotypical and poorly written. I found the random quotes interspersed throughout the story to be really amateur and they didn't provide any substance to the story.
I really didn't appreciate how Caspar was used to represent the LGBTQ+ community. I found her character and also how Jasper responded to her advances to be incredibly offensive and really don't believe that any young readers should read a book in which a diverse character is hated on and also poorly represented.
Her relationship with Keel was also terrible and I was constantly asking myself if she was really nineteen years old and having so many issues with her boyfriend. She shouldn't be surprised that her boyfriend told a guy that they're together and she shouldn't go on and on about how she wishes her boyfriend would play his guitar instead of video games. Sure, those feelings are real but to me, putting them in a book is unnecessary.
Going off of the synopsis, I know I've hardly scratched the surface of the plot but I can't read any more about a lead character who thinks she's 'a girl who says what she thinks'. What I read of this book I found really depressing and often offensive. Had Jasper's reflections on her life and her choices been more self exploratory and meaningful, I may have liked this story a bit more. She was definitely dealt a crappy hand in life but she still had the opportunity to be a better character than she was.
I really didn't appreciate how Caspar was used to represent the LGBTQ+ community. I found her character and also how Jasper responded to her advances to be incredibly offensive and really don't believe that any young readers should read a book in which a diverse character is hated on and also poorly represented.
Her relationship with Keel was also terrible and I was constantly asking myself if she was really nineteen years old and having so many issues with her boyfriend. She shouldn't be surprised that her boyfriend told a guy that they're together and she shouldn't go on and on about how she wishes her boyfriend would play his guitar instead of video games. Sure, those feelings are real but to me, putting them in a book is unnecessary.
Going off of the synopsis, I know I've hardly scratched the surface of the plot but I can't read any more about a lead character who thinks she's 'a girl who says what she thinks'. What I read of this book I found really depressing and often offensive. Had Jasper's reflections on her life and her choices been more self exploratory and meaningful, I may have liked this story a bit more. She was definitely dealt a crappy hand in life but she still had the opportunity to be a better character than she was.
DNF @ 30%
Yeah...I really couldn't get into this book. I thought it was going to be more interesting than it actually ended up being. It's not holding my attention, and the main character is really starting to get on my nerves. At nineteen, I guess I expected a more mature character than the MC ended up being.
Yeah...I really couldn't get into this book. I thought it was going to be more interesting than it actually ended up being. It's not holding my attention, and the main character is really starting to get on my nerves. At nineteen, I guess I expected a more mature character than the MC ended up being.
This is the first book I have read by this author.
This book is a new adult coming of age, and self discovery. The main character Tara had a rough childhood after her father dies at a young age and her mother remarried. She was physically, and mentally abused by her stepfather.
The girl we start out with is not the girl we end up with - and I love that.
This book is a new adult coming of age, and self discovery. The main character Tara had a rough childhood after her father dies at a young age and her mother remarried. She was physically, and mentally abused by her stepfather.
The girl we start out with is not the girl we end up with - and I love that.