Ratings63
Average rating3.7
I really wanted to love this — fantastic writing, a fantastic idea,, but I knew it was written by someone who usually writes things for the screen. It just didn't hit for me because of that. There was too much over describing like what one would do for a script it didn't read naturally enough for me. Now Mr. Thomas if you make this a movie I'll be right there opening night, probably ready to pee my pants in gear.
I did just read a review by someone named “mark” who said “the author's extensive experience writing for television is all over this book. Easily digestible, simplistic character types rather than three-dimensional characters, a narrative flow that would easily translate in the arcs you see spread out across a tv season, various vivid but unrealistic scenes that may pop on the screen but feel artificial on the page, moralistic lessons for each of the characters that may make sense during an hour-long episode but feel trite and predictable in a book, and that are not particularly tied to any overarching theme throughout the book.”
And I think that's so accurate, and way better than anything I could've written myself