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Nerve by Jeanne Ryan
1.0

When I saw the preview for the movie version of Nerve, I was very excited to read the book. The movie looks fast paced and thrilling with a bit of romance added in. The book....was not. Nerve was pretty boring at times. Even the dares the characters did weren't that interesting. No blind motorcycling or running in your underwear. The book had to explain things a lot as well. There was way more telling and less showing. This novel would have benefited from being told in third person. Vee was boring and spent most of the book talking about how she shouldn't be doing any of this and then mad at herself for doing but yet still doing it. Very frustrating to read that. Also, the romance between Vee and Ian was way too fast and superficial. You don't find out anything about him. They don't have a heart to heart yet they seemingly fall in love. Not a good read, but I am still going to check out the movie.