Review: Long!!
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 02 5, 2014
ARC provided by Netgalley.I finished this book a week ago but I wanted to give myself a little time and really think about my experience reading this book and how to articulate it to the other readers. This Much Is True is a rough, heartbreaking, completely brutal, and frustrating at times book. It touches on mature themes and reeds more like an NA vs. YA. We experience the following themes: coping with the loss of a loved one, love that seems impossible, living in the public eye, and the pressures of growing up.This book had me feeling like I was on an intense emotional roller coaster! I was up and down within the same paragraph. It was slow to start and extremely long but an overall ok read. I found myself not really believing or feeling the love connection between Linc and Tally, which made it that much harder to get through. I almost stopped reading the book but I hate to not know an ending and ventured on.I liked and disliked so much of this book. I did not mind the age difference because Tally seemed older in certain aspects. I really liked Marla and Charlie as secondary characters but hated Holly/Tally's "boyfriend". Linc and Tally's relationship or lack there of was exhausting and wore me out. I felt like the ending was hurried and I would have liked to see them all happy together in their new life. After all the heartbreak I think we deserved a little more of the happy ending!I found myself reading what felt like the same thing over and over. The writers style is something I am not used to and it was hard at times to read. She wants to drill an idea in and repeats herself often to get a point across. This was not a deal breaker alone but was one of the reasons I toke a star away. The other was like I mentioned above, I really did not feel like the love felt between the main characters was authentic. I guess I am someone that likes love that grows with time and not the insta-love we find in so many novels now days.I was disappointed with the editing in this book!! What turned this book from four stars to three is the editing. There are so many grammatical errors that I found myself going back and rewriting sentences in my head.Over all this book is an ok read but needs to be re-edited and possibly shortened. I like the fact that it is a true novel and not a series but some aspects dragged and are unnecessary.