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A review by sometimes_samantha_reads
It's the End of the World and I'm in My Bathing Suit by Justin A. Reynolds
adventurous
funny
lighthearted
mysterious
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.5
Weird pacing
I'm a 5th grade teacher and I read this to see if it would be a good read aloud for my students. I'm glad I previewed it. The idea is cute, but the pacing is very weird. More than 50% of the book was before the beach bash and it was just jumbled up chapters that kept waffling between Eddie talking to his family, lamenting about his choice to not do laundry, and going off on random tangents. I know Eddie is supposed to have ADHD so the chapters are written to express that because Eddie is the narrator but he loses track of what he's thinking so often that as a reader, its kind of hard to follow. Also because there are so so so many shifts in what Eddie is talking about and points where he makes intersections on himself and breaks the 4th wall, I don't think it's good as a read aloud. It also bothered me that the main action that the summary expresses (black out and missing parents) doesn't even happen until almost 60% of the way through the book... and it's left on an actual "to be continued." Yes, it's written into the book as "to be continued." I personally did not like this book. It was a little too messy for me. I don't think I'll be reading the sequel.
I'm a 5th grade teacher and I read this to see if it would be a good read aloud for my students. I'm glad I previewed it. The idea is cute, but the pacing is very weird. More than 50% of the book was before the beach bash and it was just jumbled up chapters that kept waffling between Eddie talking to his family, lamenting about his choice to not do laundry, and going off on random tangents. I know Eddie is supposed to have ADHD so the chapters are written to express that because Eddie is the narrator but he loses track of what he's thinking so often that as a reader, its kind of hard to follow. Also because there are so so so many shifts in what Eddie is talking about and points where he makes intersections on himself and breaks the 4th wall, I don't think it's good as a read aloud. It also bothered me that the main action that the summary expresses (black out and missing parents) doesn't even happen until almost 60% of the way through the book... and it's left on an actual "to be continued." Yes, it's written into the book as "to be continued." I personally did not like this book. It was a little too messy for me. I don't think I'll be reading the sequel.