Reviews
Oh my god. Sarah Beth Durst somehow got a hold of my diaries from middle school and turned to into a boy. HOW DID SHE DO THAT? Plot: 5/5 Loved it. It was mystery and magic and creepy and cool. one thing that I liked and disliked at the same time was the memory lapses the main character had. BECAUSE I WANTED TO KNOW WHAT HAPPENED during those memory lapses, but at the same time, me not knowing gave me more of a sense of what the character was going through not remembering. Masterfully done, Sarah Beth Durst. Masterful. Characters: 3/5 The reason I'm not giving the character section a high score is because there were a LOT of characters in this book, yet I only feel like I know three of them: Eve, Zach, and Malcolm. All excellent characters, but what about Aunt Nikki and Aidan and Victoria and Lou and Topher? What are their feeling, their motivations? I know that some of those characters motivations were explained, but I didn't feel it. I have to FEEL it. The Romance: 4/5 I loved Eve and Zach and I love the way they interacted with each other, and I love their romance. but the way it began felt a little forced, and this is probably because of those memory lapses (that were SO frustrating, by the way) but it just, it didn't feel natural. Overall: 12/15 Overall, I liked the book and the main characters, and the memory lapses were an interesting and compelling rhetorical choice, but overall, they took too much away from the book, in my opinion. they took more than they gave, so in my view, they are unjustified.
I’ve owned this book since middle school, and I’m just now reading it. BOY, have I been missing out!! This book is so imaginative and descriptive, I can just see every moment playing out in my mind. I would LOVE to see this as a movie, but this book is a movie in itself. I need to pick up more of this author’s work, like, yesterday!
