Holy moly, I LOVED this one! My first 5-star book this year! It was doomed from the start, but I read it, it was short, and I can now move on to other books. Sometimes books don't grab me the same way, and The Girls and I had a bad first date and still tried to make it work. It's not written very well, often comes across as too pretentious and trying too hard to be awesome, and ultimately forgettable.īut, people like it and that's great. It's not worth whatever advance she got from Random House, and it's not worth the attention it's getting.
This book took real events, changed the characters names, and did nothing creative outside of that.
I mean, it was a great read, fascinating, unbelievable, hard to even rationalize that it was a real event. way too long for a high school kid to read. I read Helter Skelter in high school and that book was. Sometimes it's cereal or maybe an apple, but who really cares about my post-reading eating habits that may or may not be really a thing anyway? The sandwich thing happens after I finish every book, not just bad ones, and especially not just this one. I read it, never really cared, got to the end, shrugged, got off the couch, and made myself a sandwich. I just didn't connect with this book at any point, ever. I absolutely understand how you could read this book and think it's amazing and get all caught up in the story and the characters and be transported back to that crazy time in our nation's history. People I know, love, and respect really, really like this book. The old me would rate this book two stars and spend some time telling you how awful the book is and all the reasons I couldn't stand it, etc.
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