Thalia @ Pictures in the Words
I'm Thalia! I run a book blog called Pictures in the Words and I hope to be an editor for YA fiction. I'm a GoodReads refugee!
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Finished!
Well... it kind of turned out exactly like I expected it to.
The thing is, this book is terrible at description. Like, all of a sudden, both Junior's grandmother and his dad's best friend died, and Junior said basically nothing about it except that it wasn't fair. Then his sister dies in a freak house party fire and there's basically nothing on his feelings about that either. I don't even count them as spoilers because *they happened* but they have absolutely no significance on the actual characters or plot development.
I don't get the hype. I feel like everyone in my class really liked this book, and there wasn't really anything about it I enjoyed. There was a part, right after Junior finds out about his sister, where he prays that his dad coming to get him won't die on the way there. And, strangely, that was a feeling I very much related to. I went on vacation the day I found out a friend of mine had died, and the whole time I was gone, I had the irrational, terrifying feeling that in my absence, someone else I loved would pass away tragically, too. So that was realistic and I could feel the desperation. But that was honestly all there was. I really wish I had liked it more, but I can't say I'm surprised at my feelings.
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