Review: Did We Even Read the Same Book?
Rating: 1 out of 5
Date: 04 6, 2014
I couldn't even finish this it was so bad. I mean really really really bad.  I will start with the problems I had with the plot. Everything was so easy for the main characters. They went from point to point to point solving the mystery.Every person they met was willing to help them, and gave them perfect amounts of information. Did not even have to struggle for the answers, because a. Jack just kept using logic to solve everything, making some great leaps to find the solutions, and b. because the plot and the answers were so incredibly obvious I felt like the author expected me to be stupid. Everything is fed to the reader. Every emotion the characters felt are spoon-fed with exacting detail. Every problem/immediate solution that no one was able to solve until now was explained in excruciating detail. It was incredibly tedious just trying to get through the book because of how simple everything was. I also really hate shadowy villains that are trying to hurt the characters 'just cause'. It's such an oversimplification of motivation that it immediately makes me dislike a book. Now maybe this changed the further you got into the novel, but I doubt it.This moves to my next point: the style of the author. Edit. So much of this book was filler. She pulled a first-time author trick, where she explained every action and moment we spent with the characters. I don't care about most of their daily actions. If it's not pertinent to the plot don't include it. While I was reading this I just kept looking up and around because I was so bored. Cut it out. Please. Just cut it out.The main characters relationship was a complete joke. She pulled an "insta-love" and just told the readers that they had both been obsessed with each other for years. So no real building on that front.And finally, the main character Marissa. This is a real question; was she suppose to be likable, independent, intelligent and/or funny. Because we got none of those things. Every time she discovered something new about herself she would freak out and cry on Jack. Every time. I actually began to count how many times it happened. And it happened every time she found new powers. Freak out boom tears. And Marissa actually calls herself an independent woman at one point. Which was probably the funniest thing she said the entire part of the book I read. She didn't have a personality and fell to pieces whenever the plot moved forward. Stop whining. It's not cute or fun to read about when it happens every ten pages. Jack didn't have much of a personality either, so I guess they're a match made in mediocrity.