This novel is a saga, that is equally as stupid as The Goddess Series. Why do I get myself into these messes?
Anyway, so, I read this ebook yesterday, and my gosh I do not understand the hype about this at ALL. Its been likened to Twilight, but seriously, Stephenie Meyer is Shakespeare next to this mess.
First things first, its about this girl - ummm I do not recall her name. Hang on. Nora Grey (thank you Wikipedia). Miss Grey here, starts out as a normal girl, with a hormonal best friend who seems to live off Nora's life (more on that later) and they become good friends with Elliot andddd I've forgotten his name..hang on. JULES. And they just yeah, become friends LMAO. And Nora finds herself the center of attention of this random dude in her class called Patch who constantly taunts her (omgosh thats so hot *faints on floor sarcastically*). OH YEAH, also, ever since she first meets Patch, she suddenly finds herself constantly followed, stalked and a mysterious figure wearing a ski mask (original) keeps trying to kill her. As jumbled up as my story sounds, the book jumbles it even more so. Random shit happens - and by shit I mean horrible, boring, contrived bullshit.
The characters - lololololololool. The protagonist has the IQ of a horse on dope. A masked male tried to kill her and instead of telling a more mature, intelligent adult of her circumstance, she goes home and tries to ADJUST to it. WHAAAT? == She tries to adjust to being stalked, and harrassed by Patch. Patch..he is as pathetic as his name. He constantly harasses Nora, and the silly girl gets attracted to it. He doesn't even do it in the 'bad boy' kind of way that so many teens love, he's more 'call 000 and get a restraining order ASAP'. Like seriously, he's out to kill her and she's just all 'omg my heart just skipped a beat'. Like come on, I will gladly stop your heart from ever beating again if I could. Anyway, as the novel progresses, obviously, SOMEHOW, Patch falls in love with Nora. Which probably means his IQ is even lower; cause she hasn't done a single thing to charm the pants off anyone. She just keeps driving around and getting 'the feeling that someone is watching'. The ENTIRE novel she's just all 'I felt someone's stare on my back'.
Her best friend, 'Vee Sky' makes Nora look like Einstein. This Vee girl, spends the entire novel going 'OMGOSH HES SO HOT' 'OMG HOT' 'OMG LETS CLIMB INTO THE CAR OF A STRANGER CAUSE HES HOT' 'OMG LETS GO INTERSTATE WITH THIS GUY CAUSE HE'S HOT' 'OMG IM DYING, BUT THATS OK, HES HOT'. There was this scene where she was having fun chilling out with Elliot and Jules and they were like 'lets go to high school and play hide in seek in there!' (cause how else would you spend a weekend. They're so cool!), she lets the boys chain up all the exits to the building. Her justification for her stupid senseless allowance was 'They said it was to make sure we stayed in school only during the game!'. Someone just shoot her. She's only there as a platform for Nora's character.
There's also a really weird medical incorrectness in the novel. This Nora chick has anemia. So she takes Iron tablets, fair enough. Ms Fitzpatrick, it won't kill you to do a little research. She writes Nora to take 2 capsules 'few times a day'. TWO capsules FEW times a day. And whats even more stupid is that Nora doesn't even take it few times a day. She takes them like, EVERY FUCKING HOUR. She just keeps swallowing them. Like, whenever Patch harasses her, she'll be all *omg :( self pity* then swallows 2 capsules of iron tablets. And during a SUPER INTENSE SCENE *sarcasm*, she starts suffocating and finding it hard to breathe and her airways were constricting or some shit. And she goes 'Omg Patch, get me my Iron tablets, I need them' then Patch gives them to her, she takes two capsules, then THE BOOK LITERALLY SAYS 'I stood for a few minutes to let the iron absorb'. 1. Your symptoms sound more like asthma than anemia 2. You cannot use words tablets/caplets interchangeably 3. Bitch I have anemia, I take 1 tablet daily WITH FOOD. If you're taking like a bottle a day, you should probably be on some alternative form of treatment...
The plot...lol the plot. Its basically a girl getting bullied by this boy and the more he tortures her the more she falls in love and then he falls in love too because why not? And then every character in the novel does something stupid and it somehow all ties up to Nora because shes SUPER IMPORTANTE.
I do not see how someone can be a fan of this. It objectifies sex, portrays adolescents as horny beasts constantly wanting to tear each other apart in heated passion, and it condones bullying, taunting, harassment and stalking. It promotes keeping your issues to yourself until you get yourself killed. It insults science, belittles school education (a lot of the novel centres around Nora's biology classes where they quite literally talk about what they look for in a sex partner ==) and the horror component is just horrible.
i must now go and write up 600 words for my assignment. :( too many of my blog posts are about books, its suffocating me (QUICK, GET MY IRON TABLETS) (ahhh i can totally feel those tablets just FULL ABSORBING INTO MY BODY AND SHIZZZ) if you guys noticed, i wrote that book review with CORRECT PUNCTUATIOANERGJER :) it was a pain. but one i can live with. anyways, nothings been new with me. just reading my time away, WHICH I SHOULD REALLY STOP but its just so addictive.
today i ate two hotdogs. bye
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