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A review by mycozybooknest
Again, but Better by Christine Riccio
4.0
***ARC provided by Netgalley and St. Martin's Press, Wednesday Books in exchange for an honest review***
3.75*
I'll start by saying this... when you get to chapter 19 and goodreads tells you you don't even have 40% of the book read, you're definitely in for a the long ride and, man, was it a very long one. I started reading late after getting it and I put it down for a while and picked it back up in middle August.
This book is hard to rate for me because although it contains really fun things, I also felt confused in parts and I felt a bit overwhelmed with all the references made through for 2011, like The Mortal Instruments series, Deathly hallows, Spotify and music. I don,t believe this was required at all for the story.
I had heard of Christine before and had seen a few videos from her but I'm not a subscriber because I cannot connect with her but it's alright. When I saw this book, I requested it without second guessing myself on it because it's nice to support Youtubers, I find and I definitely thought the synopsis was really fun.
Right away, I could relate with Shane as she's an introvert who didn't have many friends back in high school, found it really difficult to make any and she didn't date much or at all and was overall unsatisifed with her social life and college. This is where I drew the line however as I'm not as organized as she is, I don't have a blog and I don't obsess over boys and have internal monologue about them like she does this boy Pilot.
I did really enjoy the idea of travellking abroad for studying, it would definitely have been interesting and fun to have had that opportunity and to be able to visit surrounded places as well during weekends and all. Only thing is, how much money do they all have to be going out for whole weekends like that?
The writing was nice, the way someone would actually speak so i don't quite mind it but there were places where the author used things like "I chuckled" or "I snorted" and you wonder why that is. She tends to use those while adding a reference to a book she read or a movie she watched but it makes no sense so that left me wondering about the sanity of the character in many places throughout the book.
Part two of the book is kinda of feeling like a rewrite, in a way, of part one. Only, it happens 5 years later.
Then again, by this point, I was getting tired of this story and I wanted to move on so I probably didn't quite catch this part as much and as best as I could of and I probably would give it another chance another time. It does have things that i really enjoy like travels and romance and little bits of magic and overall friendship between people.
It is a pretty fun read and interesting as well. I just hadn,t expected it to be this long, especially for a first novel. Most characters are fun and I would have liked to have met them.
3.75*
I'll start by saying this... when you get to chapter 19 and goodreads tells you you don't even have 40% of the book read, you're definitely in for a the long ride and, man, was it a very long one. I started reading late after getting it and I put it down for a while and picked it back up in middle August.
This book is hard to rate for me because although it contains really fun things, I also felt confused in parts and I felt a bit overwhelmed with all the references made through for 2011, like The Mortal Instruments series, Deathly hallows, Spotify and music. I don,t believe this was required at all for the story.
I had heard of Christine before and had seen a few videos from her but I'm not a subscriber because I cannot connect with her but it's alright. When I saw this book, I requested it without second guessing myself on it because it's nice to support Youtubers, I find and I definitely thought the synopsis was really fun.
Right away, I could relate with Shane as she's an introvert who didn't have many friends back in high school, found it really difficult to make any and she didn't date much or at all and was overall unsatisifed with her social life and college. This is where I drew the line however as I'm not as organized as she is, I don't have a blog and I don't obsess over boys and have internal monologue about them like she does this boy Pilot.
I did really enjoy the idea of travellking abroad for studying, it would definitely have been interesting and fun to have had that opportunity and to be able to visit surrounded places as well during weekends and all. Only thing is, how much money do they all have to be going out for whole weekends like that?
The writing was nice, the way someone would actually speak so i don't quite mind it but there were places where the author used things like "I chuckled" or "I snorted" and you wonder why that is. She tends to use those while adding a reference to a book she read or a movie she watched but it makes no sense so that left me wondering about the sanity of the character in many places throughout the book.
Part two of the book is kinda of feeling like a rewrite, in a way, of part one. Only, it happens 5 years later.
Then again, by this point, I was getting tired of this story and I wanted to move on so I probably didn't quite catch this part as much and as best as I could of and I probably would give it another chance another time. It does have things that i really enjoy like travels and romance and little bits of magic and overall friendship between people.
It is a pretty fun read and interesting as well. I just hadn,t expected it to be this long, especially for a first novel. Most characters are fun and I would have liked to have met them.