Dnf, page 89.

Huge tw for suicide ideation, grief, loss

I usually try to get to either 100 pages or the halfway mark before I dnf a book, but I just couldn’t do it with this one. After about 30 pages I went back to highlight everything I thought was problematic, and now almost every page up to 89 has a bunch of yellow highlighter ink. I’d say 95% is problematic and the other 5% is me being sarcastic.

I’ve wanted to read this since I joined Goodreads and the YA community, about two and a half years ago. I’d seen some bad reviews, but basically everyone loved it. I finally bought a copy over the summer, and, well... I wish I’d gotten it from my library.

I can’t say a whole lot about this book since I only read a fraction of it, but I can talk about what I did read. I won’t speak on the mental health rep, as that’s not for me to speak on, but everything else was just not good. The characters felt flat. I didn’t like Finch at all, although I think Violet could’ve been good if she was better developed. Finch was also kind of creepy, to be honest. There were a lot of clichés, too.

I wanted to finish this and write a detailed, critical review, but I just couldn’t do it. Oops.