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Everything, Everything
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bookshelves: 2015-releases, roadtrippin, ya, contemporary, author-woman, author-of-color
Jun 03, 2017
bookshelves: 2015-releases, roadtrippin, ya, contemporary, author-woman, author-of-color
1.5ish stars.
What begins as a sort-of-cute "sick girl meets cute boy" cliche quickly devolves into repugnantly saccharine ridiculousness and eventually cheap, ludicrous melodrama.
I'll say this much: it was never very good. It was okay. If the premise reminds you of The Fault in Our Stars, your thoughts are justified. Despite this, it tries so hard to distinguish itself, to be unique that it's impossible not to be aware of how hard it's trying.
And it's unnecessary. The story is honestly at its best when it follows the classic formula. Olly's and Maddy's young love is actually pretty adorable. Their silly, flirty emails and instant messages take me back to high school when I thought I was in love for the first time. Of course, then Maddy takes it to the next level and decides it's worth it to (view spoiler). It's not plausible and it's not romantic.
Then it starts to get bad. Tawdry, manipulative, imbecilic bad. I won't say more, I'll just say it sinks to a place I wouldn't have thought it classless enough to sink to. There's a fine line between "unique" and "laying it on so thick it's suffocating."
What begins as a sort-of-cute "sick girl meets cute boy" cliche quickly devolves into repugnantly saccharine ridiculousness and eventually cheap, ludicrous melodrama.
I'll say this much: it was never very good. It was okay. If the premise reminds you of The Fault in Our Stars, your thoughts are justified. Despite this, it tries so hard to distinguish itself, to be unique that it's impossible not to be aware of how hard it's trying.
And it's unnecessary. The story is honestly at its best when it follows the classic formula. Olly's and Maddy's young love is actually pretty adorable. Their silly, flirty emails and instant messages take me back to high school when I thought I was in love for the first time. Of course, then Maddy takes it to the next level and decides it's worth it to (view spoiler). It's not plausible and it's not romantic.
Then it starts to get bad. Tawdry, manipulative, imbecilic bad. I won't say more, I'll just say it sinks to a place I wouldn't have thought it classless enough to sink to. There's a fine line between "unique" and "laying it on so thick it's suffocating."
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Jun 07, 2017 04:56AM
I heard about this one a lot! Sorry you didn't enjoy it Philip. Although it's nice to be reminded of that teenage 'first love' feeling right? ;)
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Thank you for this wonderful review. I've read like 2 pages of this book and though I don't like to prematurely judge I found the book so cliche but also EXTREMELY try hard. It was kind of suffocating so I'm glad someone else gets me on that
Since everyone's having a lot of mixed opinions on this one I guess I have to read it soon! I'm sorry you didn't like it tho.
Haha, love this. I also thought it was super implausible, and it just got more and more so as the book went on..
l a i n e y wrote: "I heard about this one a lot! Sorry you didn't enjoy it Philip. Although it's nice to be reminded of that teenage 'first love' feeling right? ;)"Yes! That part of it at least was nice and warm and fuzzy. :)
Kadi wrote: "Thank you for this wonderful review. I've read like 2 pages of this book and though I don't like to prematurely judge I found the book so cliche but also EXTREMELY try hard. It was kind of suffocat..."I'm glad you agree! I just thinking to myself "less is more!"
Farith wrote: "Since everyone's having a lot of mixed opinions on this one I guess I have to read it soon! I'm sorry you didn't like it tho."Yeah definitely check it out and let me know what you think. If nothing else, read it to decide if you want to watch the movie. :)
Jo wrote: "Haha, love this. I also thought it was super implausible, and it just got more and more so as the book went on.."I was listening to this on a roadtrip and I remember turning to my wife at one point and saying (view spoiler)
Philip wrote: "Jo wrote: "Haha, love this. I also thought it was super implausible, and it just got more and more so as the book went on.."I was listening to this on a roadtrip and I remember turning to my wife..."
Omg when that happened I thought are you KIDDING me she didn't even have a real disease and this book was totally trying to ride the Fault in Our Stars craze wave but didn't even see it through to make it a cheesy happy ending!!!
I know, right? Disgraceful haha.
Given how generous you usually are with ratings, you must really have been served an unpalatable dish this time.
