Review: Interesting Idea, Lack of strong character
Rating: 2 out of 5
Date: 04 10, 2014
This idea has so much potential but I think that some writers constantly underestimate the strength, integrity and intellect of teens. The behavior and decisions the main character makes are so shallow, unthoughtful and vapid that it's a miracle that she can function or fit in at all in this parallel universe.I get it, Americans are obsessed by weight and diet fads but at the same time have the highest percent of overweight people in the world. There is potential in making this deliver some great morals and insight but instead we get a main character that just does whatever she wants before even asking what the consequences are for her and her family, not to mention the mysterious other Morgan in which her actions would definitely affect. Speaking  of which, the writer does not even explain the whereabouts of this other Morgan.Morgan is suppose to be the character we like and rally behind but her actions and decisions to get a rise out of another character in the book, makes her no better than her nemesis. Her lack of thought for her family and their position in this world is amazing to me. Yes we get it, the writer needs to get from point A to point B but it could have been done without making the main character so unlikable.Give young adults more credit!