Q.B. Tyler
Autor(a) de Love Unexpected
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Keep Her Safe 8 exemplares
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The Season of Secrets 3 exemplares
The Bittersweet Duet 1 exemplar
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Estatísticas
- Obras
- 16
- Also by
- 1
- Membros
- 270
- Popularidade
- #85,638
- Avaliação
- 3.6
- Críticas
- 14
- ISBN
- 10
- Línguas
- 1
- Marcado como favorito
- 1
the why's:
1. the most glaring issue here is the writing, especially the dialogue. the run on sentences go craaaazy wild and there are so many instances of weird grammar.
2. the flashbacks are a bit cheap, i'm not sure that it was a necessary device for this kind of book. there's just not that much untold history between gabbie and james.
3. the big one. the main conflict of the entire book is not whether gabbie and james are meant to be together, it's that they're worried about what their family and friends will think of them after the truth is out. by the end of the book, every family member knows what's what - but there isn't a resolution !!
4. the book ends with no loose ends tied up. the family knows what james/gabbie are doing and knows they're going to be together no matter what. but that's not what matters. them just knowing what was going on was never the complete issue. the conflict is in how they deal with this new complicated dynamic in their family. and we don't see how any of their family members deal with this new turn of events! monica disappears after she finds out, and the dad and the mom find out too late in the book for anything to really come of it. in the epilogue, james and gabbie get married but the mom and the dad aren't even in the chapter! for all we know they never came around and have disowned the two of them - there's truly no indication of them accepting the relationship.
the good:
1. i like james! i like gabbie!
2. the chemistry between the two is great, i have no issues whatsoever as far as they're concerned.
3. good drama! (kinda)
the final say:
there was a lot of potential here! the adopted sister brother dynamic, the black daughter in an otherwise white family, the overachieving family gene and how that's affected gabbie, going to columbia and trying to live up to monica and james successes. like there are truly so many interesting directions this story could have been taken!! it wasn't a snoozefest by any means, but it was disappointing in the end.… (mais)