A review by chidimmadesiree
The Swell by Allie Reynolds

1.0

SO HAPPY THAT IT’S OVER! First of all, nothing happens in this book and that’s no exaggeration. The first like 80% of this book is just Kenna trying to fit in with these group of surfers to supposedly “save” her childhood best friend Mikki. Then my main issue of this book is that the main character, Kenna, is dumb AS HELL. Like I actually couldn’t take it anymore. We go into this book knowing that the only reason Kenna goes to Australia is to make sure Mikki is not in an abusive relationship, okay got it. Once she realizes Mikki is in this cultish surf group you would think the alarm bells would start ringing but no. Kenna says she’s suspicious and wary of the group but her actions keep contradicting this. Time and time even as it’s revealed that these people are connected to dead bodies and missing people she still seems to trust them and give them the benefit of the doubt. There’s no true sense of danger and caution in her actions. Also she gets threats to stop asking questions, but she keeps asking them expecting the truth which is INSANE. It’s so funny because I feel like a person who’s not an idiot would realize that Mikki is in far too deep and she needs to run for her life. We’re supposed to believe that Kenna is this smart protagonist who’s trying to outsmart these group of people but she makes the stupidest of decisions, ENOUGH! I kept reading expecting the story to pick up and it did but for like 50 pages which shows how big of a waste of time this was. A book has not pissed me off this much in a long time like wow.