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A review by faethality
Dear Edward by Ann Napolitano
2.0
As someone who read this book knowing it wasn't my type of genre to read anyway, I am not surprised by my rating but I will try to write this review as objective as possible.
**light spoilers**
I felt no connection to any of the characters on the plane whatsoever. I don't know why I couldn't like them but some of their stories were just so boring and I never found myself connecting to them. I feel like they were supposed to let us see into their personal normal human lives and have us respond with more emotion but the boring and mundane was just well boring to me. And there were a few of them that I just hated in general. I actually stopped reading Florida's POVs (and someone else but I can't remember their name so that must say something) and had to skip over them because I disliked them so much.
I also felt like the way the POVs were written was confusing and not separated well enough. When at the B&N monthly book club someone said that she felt it was as though you "were walking down the plane aisle" and I can sort of see that but for me, it just made things confusing and frustrating.
I found myself only caring about the future Edward POVs and the Edward and family POVs on the plane (Veronica's POVs on the plane were okay actually because she had more plane based info after the whole bathroom events ;)).
I think Shay and her mother were my favorite characters and then Edward after that. I know some reviews say that they thought Edward's "recovery" was slow and he "didn't even try" but the fact is that you can't really recover from that and I think the tone set for Edward reflects he mental state perfectly and how hard that could be. I couldn't even begin to imagine losing my entire family like that.
****ending spoilers ahead**
I did not like Shay and Edward's ending. I think having them together at the end wraps it up way to nicely and diminishes the amazing portraying of Edward's recovery. I think them staying as friends would have been so much better because in reality not everything gets to be wrapped up in a pretty little bow and I think this is the one time that I will ever want that.
Okay, that is all I have for this book. I wish I had liked it more but I also kind of knew going in that it wasn't going to be my next favorite or anything.
**light spoilers**
I felt no connection to any of the characters on the plane whatsoever. I don't know why I couldn't like them but some of their stories were just so boring and I never found myself connecting to them. I feel like they were supposed to let us see into their personal normal human lives and have us respond with more emotion but the boring and mundane was just well boring to me. And there were a few of them that I just hated in general. I actually stopped reading Florida's POVs (and someone else but I can't remember their name so that must say something) and had to skip over them because I disliked them so much.
I also felt like the way the POVs were written was confusing and not separated well enough. When at the B&N monthly book club someone said that she felt it was as though you "were walking down the plane aisle" and I can sort of see that but for me, it just made things confusing and frustrating.
I found myself only caring about the future Edward POVs and the Edward and family POVs on the plane (Veronica's POVs on the plane were okay actually because she had more plane based info after the whole bathroom events ;)).
I think Shay and her mother were my favorite characters and then Edward after that. I know some reviews say that they thought Edward's "recovery" was slow and he "didn't even try" but the fact is that you can't really recover from that and I think the tone set for Edward reflects he mental state perfectly and how hard that could be. I couldn't even begin to imagine losing my entire family like that.
****ending spoilers ahead**
I did not like Shay and Edward's ending. I think having them together at the end wraps it up way to nicely and diminishes the amazing portraying of Edward's recovery. I think them staying as friends would have been so much better because in reality not everything gets to be wrapped up in a pretty little bow and I think this is the one time that I will ever want that.
Okay, that is all I have for this book. I wish I had liked it more but I also kind of knew going in that it wasn't going to be my next favorite or anything.