Review: I just couldn't get through it...
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 08 19, 2013
I know this is a review of the whole book, but I only got 20% through. I was not going to force myself to keep reading, and then force myself to force myself again. Maybe this book just isn't for me, but I'll tell you what I think of it. There are no spoilers unmarked in this review.Positive thoughts:This book is long, not incredibly short or just half a book for free. So if you think you might like it it's probably worth it.There aren't many errors, paragraphs are nicely organized and evenly spaced for easy reading.This book doesn't have a ton of bad language but it is certainly there, a few choice words covering it every now and then though.The vocabulary is pretty wide, but a little too extreme for me at parts. High school students would probably read this easily.Bad thoughts (SPOILERS CONTAINED WITHIN THIS SECTION. I REPEAT: SPOILERS!!!)I warned about SPOILERS!So many people are saved by the main characters and almost by nobody else. I'm not kidding, practically every few hours some one almost dies... then gets saved by that hot perfect guy or the main character who's a complete idiot. The first time this happens the suspense was evenly balanced and hooked me in, but when this repeated itself it just felt like a repeat: "Oh no! We need to save him! Hurry! (Keep in mind no one else walking by even NOTICES) *They help him* "Look! That truck is going to kill him! Get a move on!" Ugh.I feel like everything is so minimal. There is hardly any action, just those brief moments saving people or the main character meeting another person with superpowers and freaking out in public, where once again no one notices.See the similarities?Almost everything is thrown put there. And I have to say it would have been nice if there was some sort of villain in it. Who cares that you look great at the party? Who cares about just exactly how you apply the makeup and instantly look gorgeous? I certainly don't at all. I was 1/5 through the book, and the closest thing to the antagonist is the hot guy. Um... Hello?I know this book is for youths and all, but I'm sick of reading a book having the main character with extraordinary powers beyond any one else's. Plus, she has hers before any one else. Basically she gets glimpses of people's deaths before they happen and INSTANTLY knows exactly where it is. Come on, she lives in a city. She cannot possibly get there every single time before the person is killed or before some one else gets to play hero-of-the-boring-and-highly-irritating-book. Not everyone is blind, okay?The main character had, as far as I saw, no flaws at all. She was perfect in every shape and form, got along with everybody, and that sums it up. Oh yeah, what are the chances that all of her friends have powers? Can't she have SOME ordinary friend? I mean, please. I repeat: What are the chances?I feel like every plot line happened to the author's pleasure at most. Half of it was completely unrealistic, I don't care how great your super powers are you can't 'instantly' cure a concussion. You can't. And who in their right mind charges into a burning building? A shirt over your nose is NOT going to help you when you're in the middle of it. And she shouldn't even be able to see, or at least barely! And then she can HEAR the person calling for help, all four sentences perfectly without trouble over the roaring fire and collapsing ceiling.Did I mention: The characters were eating together and then 'Hey! See that! Something's burning-let's go check it out! Ooh! Ooh! I'll be the only person stupid enough in this crowd of people (who stand and stare as victims rush outside coughing smoke out of their lungs) to run into the building, run up a few flights of stairs into the midst of it all and attempt to lift a beam off a lady (who was perfectly fine afterward, not even broken legs!)and successfully be hero-of-the-day.' And of course, her friends don't criticise her on it- 'You did the right thing back there, you know?'That's the other problem, the characters going out of their flat boxes of personality. In fact, now that I'm thinking about it, they were pretty flat and alike. Just, you know, having nothing unique to like about them. So I guess to make things more interesting the author just manipulated them and twisted them.So sum my review up: (no more spoilers)This book really does have potential, it does. For a second, forget everything I said and retread the description of this book. It sounds good, right? Therefore it could be. I said my review, but I can't say this book was horrible when really all those five-star ratings say otherwise. So, if you want to give it a try, sure. I would recommend this book to certain people, probably younger-ish mature people. Young so they don't care too much about characters going out of character but mature enough to handle coarse language and violence. Plus other select things I didn't read about.So... The book is free, so no worries there.