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A review by kaitlin123
Tradition by Brendan Kiely
3.0
This book spoke about such important topics and it had the absolute best intentions but it just fell a little flat.
Things I didn’t like:
The main problem with the book is that it’s told from two POV’s, Bax and Jules, when really it should have been told from just Jules’. It was her story it was telling, so whenever it went to a Bax POV the story lagged and it took away from Jules. I found myself not caring for Bax’s chapters until the end but even then, his chapters could have been told through Jules’ POV, it was just unnecessary to have it split.
Another thing that I didn’t like about this was the unnecessary romance between Bax and Aileen, it felt so stuffed in and it’s not that I didn’t like them together it’s just that the author spent more time developing them at times than Jules, and it was like this is not the important thing right now??
Things I did like:
The author dealt with the sensitive issues in a good way and gave Jules a good recovery process and by the end of the book you do feel like some sort of justice was given. However, I don’t think this was the epic, heart wrenching, truth telling book that it intended to be but it wasn’t a bad book and it did have some good moments, like the locker room scene and the ending chapters.
Favourite characters: Jules
Things I didn’t like:
The main problem with the book is that it’s told from two POV’s, Bax and Jules, when really it should have been told from just Jules’. It was her story it was telling, so whenever it went to a Bax POV the story lagged and it took away from Jules. I found myself not caring for Bax’s chapters until the end but even then, his chapters could have been told through Jules’ POV, it was just unnecessary to have it split.
Another thing that I didn’t like about this was the unnecessary romance between Bax and Aileen, it felt so stuffed in and it’s not that I didn’t like them together it’s just that the author spent more time developing them at times than Jules, and it was like this is not the important thing right now??
Things I did like:
The author dealt with the sensitive issues in a good way and gave Jules a good recovery process and by the end of the book you do feel like some sort of justice was given. However, I don’t think this was the epic, heart wrenching, truth telling book that it intended to be but it wasn’t a bad book and it did have some good moments, like the locker room scene and the ending chapters.
Favourite characters: Jules