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Misguided Angel
by Melissa de la Cruz
Okay so I definitely give these books more credit than they deserve but THIS one was SO ROUGH. Honestly it was just petty and dumb and I read this book LESS THAN 12 HOURS AGO AND I CANNOT REMEMBER HOW IT ENDED?
The formatting was very uncomfortable in this one. It’s broken up into three different characters POVs, but rather than switching from one to the other, it’s just separated into blocks? The first third of this book follows Schyler and Jack and after that we see absolutely nothing of what they are doing until the end of the book??? The second and third parts go together a little more smoothly because even though the POV changes we at least are following the same story.
But it is just too convenient? The characters are so distracted by things that are completely irrelevant to IMPORTANT PLOT points and yet it all falls into place so perfectly despite there being no effort or attention paid to the real issues. It just felt messy. Which is saying something because none of these books are super?? I don’t even know how to explain it when a book in a series that isn’t spectacular is worse than the ones before it but this was just too petty for me to be actually interested in what was going on. The previous books balance the drama and the important stuff pretty well, and this one just didn’t. The drama overshadows everything and not in a good way.
I also felt very lost during the flashbacks in this one up until the end. Which is probably why I was so lost throughout this book and when it FINALLY clicked I was like oh yes this will probably work and I see where this is going but unfortunately that happened to late in this book for me to enjoy this/to save this TRAINWRECK. 2 stars because there is at the very least hope that the rest of the series might pick up and that everything that happened here wasn’t completely useless.
Also the flashbacks usually tie in with what is currently happening in the book and while I remember how the issue in the flashback ended and what that meant for the present I CANNOT remember how the actual problem that is present in this novel is solved/explained?
The formatting was very uncomfortable in this one. It’s broken up into three different characters POVs, but rather than switching from one to the other, it’s just separated into blocks? The first third of this book follows Schyler and Jack and after that we see absolutely nothing of what they are doing until the end of the book??? The second and third parts go together a little more smoothly because even though the POV changes we at least are following the same story.
But it is just too convenient? The characters are so distracted by things that are completely irrelevant to IMPORTANT PLOT points and yet it all falls into place so perfectly despite there being no effort or attention paid to the real issues. It just felt messy. Which is saying something because none of these books are super?? I don’t even know how to explain it when a book in a series that isn’t spectacular is worse than the ones before it but this was just too petty for me to be actually interested in what was going on. The previous books balance the drama and the important stuff pretty well, and this one just didn’t. The drama overshadows everything and not in a good way.
I also felt very lost during the flashbacks in this one up until the end. Which is probably why I was so lost throughout this book and when it FINALLY clicked I was like oh yes this will probably work and I see where this is going but unfortunately that happened to late in this book for me to enjoy this/to save this TRAINWRECK. 2 stars because there is at the very least hope that the rest of the series might pick up and that everything that happened here wasn’t completely useless.
Also the flashbacks usually tie in with what is currently happening in the book and while I remember how the issue in the flashback ended and what that meant for the present I CANNOT remember how the actual problem that is present in this novel is solved/explained?