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'cause i didn't care and i still don't understand
Remember that book I was reading? Shiver?
Yeah. About that.
What. A. Pile. Of tripe.
It's not badly written, as such, it's just boring. Nothing has changed by the end of the story (and there's two more books because it's a trilogy!) and both main characters (who dually narrate) sound exactly like each other! And both of them are boring!
The boy keeps going on about how chaste he is and, while it's nice that there's a (fictional) teenage boy who doesn't want to immediately jump the girl he's (supposedly) in love with, the amount of times it's mentioned, you sort of feel well, who are you trying to convince, dear author? Me or yourself?
The girl treats everyone except the boy like trash, even her so-called best friends (god only knows why they bother with her, but since I used to hang out with people I didn't like when I was teenager, I guess I have no room to talk. Although I didn't call them my friends, but maybe that's just me?)
OH AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE ADULTS IN THIS BOOK.
They act more like teenagers than the teenagers (primarily because I assume the author doesn't want to have to deal with them, and didn't want them poking holes in her plot, which they would have done within SECONDS). The teenagers, as it happens, act like bored adults, now I come to think about it.
The best written character is the obligatory mean girl who, like everyone else in the book, is pretty one-dimensional. She doesn't suffer as much because she doesn't appear as much (until the end, but even then she's still better written than the other two).
Also there is medical bullshit ahoy (lady, if a bullet is going to graze you, it's not going to have to be removed (because it didn't go in you in the first place), and it's not going to cause you to bleed as much as boy teenager was supposed to have bled. Unless you are telling me it pierced his jugular straight though or something. In which case, I'm STILL CALLING BULLSHIT.
(Which I'm guessing it can't have purely from angle and range of the shot. So. BULLSHIT).
That said, I liked her idea of how werewolves work, but I don't like the idea of a cure. YES. I KNOW THEY ARE TEENAGERS, but honestly? What teenager wouldn't want to be a wolf instead of a human? Wouldn't being something other than human be cooler than being human? I don't know because I guess I don't know teenagers these days.
Also this is totally not the werewolf book I want, either. I won't know what it is till I find it, and I haven't found it yet. All I know is, this book ain't it.
~*~
My other two books arrived at the library and I picked them up yesterday. So now I have the worst book in the world (which looks to be written OK; it's just her subject matter that's problematic), and I have another book I don't think I'll be able to read because of the tone it's written in (which is what happened with Nightlife).
I've also been doing some writing myself, and trying to construct characters before I really plough into it and wonder wtf I'm doing. Heh. This was going to be nice story, you know. It was going to be all happy and shit, and everything was going to turn out OK, and all I want to do is write people shouting at other people. (I actually have a love/hate relationship with writing conflict. I like writing it, but at the same time I'm wincing because I'm being really horrible to my characters).
(everything is going to turn out ok in the end, though, because that was the entire point of this story in the first place).
Yeah. About that.
What. A. Pile. Of tripe.
It's not badly written, as such, it's just boring. Nothing has changed by the end of the story (and there's two more books because it's a trilogy!) and both main characters (who dually narrate) sound exactly like each other! And both of them are boring!
The boy keeps going on about how chaste he is and, while it's nice that there's a (fictional) teenage boy who doesn't want to immediately jump the girl he's (supposedly) in love with, the amount of times it's mentioned, you sort of feel well, who are you trying to convince, dear author? Me or yourself?
The girl treats everyone except the boy like trash, even her so-called best friends (god only knows why they bother with her, but since I used to hang out with people I didn't like when I was teenager, I guess I have no room to talk. Although I didn't call them my friends, but maybe that's just me?)
OH AND DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THE ADULTS IN THIS BOOK.
They act more like teenagers than the teenagers (primarily because I assume the author doesn't want to have to deal with them, and didn't want them poking holes in her plot, which they would have done within SECONDS). The teenagers, as it happens, act like bored adults, now I come to think about it.
The best written character is the obligatory mean girl who, like everyone else in the book, is pretty one-dimensional. She doesn't suffer as much because she doesn't appear as much (until the end, but even then she's still better written than the other two).
Also there is medical bullshit ahoy (lady, if a bullet is going to graze you, it's not going to have to be removed (because it didn't go in you in the first place), and it's not going to cause you to bleed as much as boy teenager was supposed to have bled. Unless you are telling me it pierced his jugular straight though or something. In which case, I'm STILL CALLING BULLSHIT.
(Which I'm guessing it can't have purely from angle and range of the shot. So. BULLSHIT).
That said, I liked her idea of how werewolves work, but I don't like the idea of a cure. YES. I KNOW THEY ARE TEENAGERS, but honestly? What teenager wouldn't want to be a wolf instead of a human? Wouldn't being something other than human be cooler than being human? I don't know because I guess I don't know teenagers these days.
Also this is totally not the werewolf book I want, either. I won't know what it is till I find it, and I haven't found it yet. All I know is, this book ain't it.
~*~
My other two books arrived at the library and I picked them up yesterday. So now I have the worst book in the world (which looks to be written OK; it's just her subject matter that's problematic), and I have another book I don't think I'll be able to read because of the tone it's written in (which is what happened with Nightlife).
I've also been doing some writing myself, and trying to construct characters before I really plough into it and wonder wtf I'm doing. Heh. This was going to be nice story, you know. It was going to be all happy and shit, and everything was going to turn out OK, and all I want to do is write people shouting at other people. (I actually have a love/hate relationship with writing conflict. I like writing it, but at the same time I'm wincing because I'm being really horrible to my characters).
(everything is going to turn out ok in the end, though, because that was the entire point of this story in the first place).