You've Reached Sam

I was really hoping I'd love this and read it as quickly as everyone else is loving and reading it. Unfortunately, I could quickly tell that this was definitely not the case. Straight from the beginning I didn't like the writing style. It's too awkward and Julie uses too many uncontracted sentences (it is on the table instead of it's on the table).

In my opinion, if you do not contract, you tend to be more formal and uncontracted sentences are more often seen in fantasy novels and less so in young adult novels. I tend to sometimes not contract my sentences, but that's because I tend to write a bit more formal at times. So therefore, even though I use uncontracted sentences and often did when I was younger, most teenagers do not. It felt weird reading them.

I wanted to be sad and feel the same way Julie did but I couldn't get past the writing style and feel the same way as everyone else. The transitions from flashbacks to normal was also not written well, in my opinion.