Name: Don't Even Think About It
ISBN: 9780385737388

Don't Even Think About It

Nicole

Ella Zegarra

Reseña completa: El Extraño Gato del Cuento

AWESOME U_U

¿Quién no ha pensado en algún momento que leer mentes sería una habilidad genial? Quizá Edward Cullen nos pueda dar algunas contras. Pero ¿Qué si no solo tú, sino toda tu clase del instituto pueda hacerlo y no tengas ninguna posibilidad de guardar un secreto? Y como todos sabemos no hay lugar para más drama que el instituto. Esa es la premisa de Don't Even Think About It, libro que en lo personal disfruté mucho, mucho leer.

El libro es como la portada. Cuando ves la portada lo primero que piensas no es "Es un libro de ciencia ficción, unos chicos desarrollaron la habilidad lectora de mentes", más parece un historia más... ¿Cursi? Y bueno, como mencioné, la historia no ahonda en los superpoderes, es solo una forma de narrarlo, por decirlo de algún modo. El estilo de la escritora en este libro es bastante simpático, una tercera persona que a la vez no es tercera persona sino un todo. Si lo que estás esperando una historia a lo X-Men, saldrás decepcionado.

Lo que me hizo no ponerle cinco estrellas al libro fue la manera en como se desarrolla el final, durante todo el libro el ritmo es parejo, muy entretenido, pero el final es demasiado fácil, la manera en que Mlyonwski usa el recurso que tiene es un poco ingenua. No me convenció nada el desarrollo de esa escena al menos, todo lo demás que siguió sí me gustó, pero esa escena... Uhm, no. Aunque ahora que reviso Goodreads aparece como serie, lo cuál me parece raro porque la escritora no ha dicho nada al respecto, al menos que yo me haya enterado. ¿Da para una serie el libro? No estoy del todo segura, me gustaría saber más de ellos, sí, es solo que como les digo lo único diferente del libro es la manera en la que está narrada, puede ser básicamente un libro conclusivo. Será cuestión de esperar.

Para mí ha sido un libro relajante, no tiene un plot que enredado donde tienes que estar maquinando lo que seguirá, solo leer y disfrutar.

Lisa Collins

Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for giving me this ARC to read in exchange for an honest review.

I really wanted to like Don’t Even Think About It.  From the moment I heard about the subject matter I knew I had to read this book. I wish I could say that I enjoyed it, but to be completely honest I was bored for much of the time I was reading. It felt like I was reading this book 
  forever
 and hitting the last page was something of a relief.

At the very beginning Don’t Even Think About It kind of read like a TV show. It felt something like a montage of the character’s lives that you would get at the beginning of the series on the first episode. It was interesting at the beginning but I can see how it would get old quickly. There were so many characters in this book that real, in-depth character development was basically impossible. The book would’ve been gigantic and the story suffered for it.

The biggest problem for me, though, was that throughout the entire book there was basically no plot. I mean, yeah, things were happening, but it felt like a book full of events that really added up to nothing. There were a whole lot of dating and relationship problems and other mundane things like that, but when it came to the telepathy there wasn’t a whole lot going on. The characters occasionally got annoyed with always hearing other people’s thoughts and having their thoughts heard too, but that was basically the biggest conflict. I expected more and maybe that’s my fault, but I feel like this book had so much unharnessed potential. Womp womp.

For the most part Don’t Even Think About It is good in theory but the execution falls flat. The characters were kind of annoying and the plot half-baked. (SIDENOTE: I feel like most of the stuff that these characters were thinking and talking about was related to sex, which is a bummer because again, so much potential.) The reason this review isn’t getting one star is purely because the concept is good. I like the concept… I just wish I had liked the book too.

Kourtney

April 2016 - still love this one! Time for the sequel!
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I LOVE THIS!!! Sarah Mlynowski can do no wrong in my eyes. I started the book last night, asked my boyfriend to bring a book along for dinner so I could continue to read it, and picked it up again this morning. What a great read.

I love when books make me think - I even asked people last night "if you could read people's thoughts, would you?" I probably would want to but shouldn't. I'm not the most patient of people, so if I heard something I didn't like then I would speak up too quickly. Then everyone would know! 

Highly recommend for YA fans, Sarah Mlynowski fans, and anyone who enjoys high school tales with a twist!

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