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A review by lydiature_
You Are Not Alone by Sarah Pekkanen, Greer Hendricks
fast-paced
1.0
boy, i don't even know where to begin. this was so bad. i admit, the only reason why i even bothered to finish this foolishness is because i couldn't sleep last night & i didn't want to scroll on my phone. the only reason. let that sink in.
on every single level, this book is bad. don't believe me? let's begin. the characters. MY GOD they were so bland!! and it didn't help that all the characters literally had the most basic names --shay, BETH, daphne, JANE. and they all had two types of personalities: either they were dumb as a box of rocks (shay) or they were evil & conniving for no reason (jane). their personalities weren't even fleshed-out. they were all one-dimensional, flat, and static.
which brings me to shay. she is dumb, blind, and pathetic. i'm sorry. i refuse to believe that a 30-something GROWN woman can act like an idiot. she acted like her frontal lobe never got developed. there is no way that someone who supposedly loves statistics & psychology can be so stupid and not see that they're getting taken advantage of. and let's not act like the moore sisters were even that conniving. they weird nice girl act was so false and surface level. i think anyone with a brain would've seen through that behaviour.
i could write paragraphs on many instances where i wanted to slap shay for her stupidity, but i won't waste my time. the dumbest person of the year goes to shay!!
next, the plot. the plot was also dumb. surprise! i had to get through 92% of the book for things to get somewhat interesting. and it wasn't even interesting afterwards. the book just crumbled after that point, and ended on a disappointed note. i also feel like the moore sisters' motives were also weakly developed? like what.
this has to be one of the worst thrillers i have ever read--right next to "the maidens" which i despise more than any other book on this planet. it was illogical, unrealistic, slow without purpose, and written poorly.
normally these kinds of disappointing books put me into a reading slump, but i am all the more determined to keep reading other books--out of SPITE.
thank god i didn't buy this book. this review is an appreciation post for libby.
on every single level, this book is bad. don't believe me? let's begin. the characters. MY GOD they were so bland!! and it didn't help that all the characters literally had the most basic names --shay, BETH, daphne, JANE. and they all had two types of personalities: either they were dumb as a box of rocks (shay) or they were evil & conniving for no reason (jane). their personalities weren't even fleshed-out. they were all one-dimensional, flat, and static.
which brings me to shay. she is dumb, blind, and pathetic. i'm sorry. i refuse to believe that a 30-something GROWN woman can act like an idiot. she acted like her frontal lobe never got developed. there is no way that someone who supposedly loves statistics & psychology can be so stupid and not see that they're getting taken advantage of. and let's not act like the moore sisters were even that conniving. they weird nice girl act was so false and surface level. i think anyone with a brain would've seen through that behaviour.
i could write paragraphs on many instances where i wanted to slap shay for her stupidity, but i won't waste my time. the dumbest person of the year goes to shay!!
next, the plot. the plot was also dumb. surprise! i had to get through 92% of the book for things to get somewhat interesting. and it wasn't even interesting afterwards. the book just crumbled after that point, and ended on a disappointed note. i also feel like the moore sisters' motives were also weakly developed? like what.
this has to be one of the worst thrillers i have ever read--right next to "the maidens" which i despise more than any other book on this planet. it was illogical, unrealistic, slow without purpose, and written poorly.
normally these kinds of disappointing books put me into a reading slump, but i am all the more determined to keep reading other books--out of SPITE.
thank god i didn't buy this book. this review is an appreciation post for libby.