Review: Good, not great.
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 06 17, 2013
Chloe's Notebook was not high on my to-read list but it popped up in my Amazon recommended books so many times that it wore me down.  So, I was mostly pleasantly surprised in that respect.  It was much better than I expected...but still not awesome.  On the good side, it had some very sweet moments, the reader doesn't have to wait until the end for them to be together, there is more than one storyline worth caring about and there is some very suspenseful action. It wasn't awesome because the characters, the foreshadowing that wasn't foreshadowing and the end.  The characters were kind of blah. That's probably a bit harsh but Alex, the narrator and MC was supposed to be smart but had horrible judgement and was kind of awkward (not in a cute way).  Chloe was like a robot, no emotion until the end.  And even then it was too little, too late. I mean, yes, she showed some emotion but she certainly didn't make me believe she was in love.  I'm sure an argument could be made in their defense but I didn't love them enough to bother with rationalizing for them.  As for the foreshadowing that wasn't foreshadowing, there were several parts of the story that were seemingly random but stuck out and so I thought they were foreshadowing but then nothing came of them so they really were just random.  That's just weird. Why put emphasis on random things?  Finally, the end.  It wasn't bad.  I'm glad that things turned out as they did but it didn't feel finished either.  So it wasn't very satisfying. Again, it wasn't bad, just not awesome.