Margrett
This book just took absolutely forever to get through. It was good enough that I didn't want to give up on it, but it just dragged. And I had to remind myself that it was good whenever I wanted to sit down and read - it didn't call me back to read more. A lot of it also didn't really feel like it mattered... the family who owned the farm, I guess. It just felt kind of forced and I think it slowed everything down. I liked the POV style, I thought it was cool.
I had to just accept I don't really like her writing style for some reason. A bummer. Also I stopped reading this way before April 30 btw
Slow slow SLOW. Slow and boring for almost all of it. Almost DNF'd, but stuck it out because I was curious enough to see where it was going. What hooked me was the way it highlights an imperfect victim in April. Messy girls deserve dignity too, and this book does a great job exploring that idea.
I guess it did pick up in the last, like 1/5 of the book.
Didn't like that the motivation for the murder was only given to us through the main character's speculation. And then the motivation itself was lame. It feels lazy to leave things open to interpretation in a book like this.
I did like how the pranking thing came full circle.
At the very least it all made sense, the reveal was plausible if not necessarily believable, didn't leave any loose ends that bothered me.
Idiot main character
Poorly written
The main twist was stupid
Giving it the half star because I liked the little minitwist at the very end where we find out Josh killed Shane on purpose, even though the writing from Josh's perspective was cringe
This book was good especially since it was her first book. But I feel like more background knowledge about the factions would have been nice. It was a good book overall though
This is a really good book. I read it this summer and now I'm reading it for English. It's one of those books where every time you read it you just get more out of it. Everyone should read this book
