So, I stayed up until 1 am last night (or day? I don't know, man) because I just had to know what happened in the last book. Did the book redeem itself? Would I actually care about Deliah and Oliver's love? How would Oliver be in the real world?

"The really crappy thing about being a teenager is that even if you have a legitimate, monumental problem-- the sky is falling or the zombie apocalypse has begun or you've contracted the plague-- you still have to do your geometry homework" (pg 295).

Well, Off the Pages by Jodi Picoult and her daughter Samantha van Leer (368 pages), got better and worst.

What did I like? I thought the death in the book was handled pretty good. I know it sounds morbid to like a fictional death, but I hadn't expected it in such a cookie-cutter book. Thankfully, there were no do-overs either! Some of Oliver's confusion of the real world was somewhat fun. The author (the real ones) tried to add some last-minute depth to the mean girl, Allie but it was like trying to add pecans to an already cooked cookie. You know what I'm saying?

I thought some scenes in this book could have been condensed like Deliah helping Seraphima pick out a bra at Victoria Secrets because all her fat goes to her breast! Yeah, that was an actual line in the book.

The romance was dry. Oliver and Deliah are just too perfectly in love. I don't feel anything for them.

The ending was going to be unsatisfying either way. I don't want to say it, but the ending was a bit on the garbage end. It was so unrealistic... And I am someone that loves happy endings!

I still liked Edgar (and Jules) the most as they had the most personality out of everyone. Chris was a cool one-note character!

OVERALL:

Off the Page gets 2 stars from me. Should you read this book? I don't think anyone over the age of ten would be amazed by this story. It's a cliche book (but the premise is not) but some might find it fun and innocent!

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