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ellakostka's review
4.0
★★★★☆ 3.5/5
thank you to penguinteen and netgallery for the arc!
this book pleasantly surprised me. The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books ever, so i was practically itching to get my hands on this book. and boy was it worth it.
i anticipated the twist at the end though i didn’t mind because it was a damn good twist and foreshadowed perfectly. though it is a bit confusing the way it is handled, though that could be just me.
this book will fuck with your mind but you won’t realize it at first. it snuck up on me in such a beautiful way.
also, the characters are DEAD ON. every single one. just amazingly done.
thank you to penguinteen and netgallery for the arc!
this book pleasantly surprised me. The Great Gatsby is one of my favorite books ever, so i was practically itching to get my hands on this book. and boy was it worth it.
i anticipated the twist at the end though i didn’t mind because it was a damn good twist and foreshadowed perfectly. though it is a bit confusing the way it is handled, though that could be just me.
this book will fuck with your mind but you won’t realize it at first. it snuck up on me in such a beautiful way.
also, the characters are DEAD ON. every single one. just amazingly done.
bardo's review
3.0
Fern lives an idyllic life on an island for the rich, with her two dads. But when a teenage celerity arrives on the island to deal with her demons, Fern is sucked into a life she never dreamed of and may cost her more than she anticipated. Tell Me My Name is a gender swapped Great Gatsby bursting with drugs alcohol and seduction. Reed dips into the outsider prospective in this fast paced whirl wind. In all the Great Gatsby glitter and shine, the plot lacks structure in order for the reader to follow the story and narration. The author does indicated that there are DID disorder characteristics in the protagonist and this would have been a great detail to the plot but the follow through was not well done. Through out the book there is narration that is linear and gives detailed and lyrical world building, Yet, the prose and unstructured narratives break down what the world building and the characters involved. This could have added to the overall story but the characters are never really flesh out and all seem to have paper thin personalities. The love square... triangle.... what ever it is is never explained fully or why Fern has an attachment in that state. Overall, I was disappointed when the book did not mirror the great Gatsby and again when it did.
anna_wardrop's review
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
3.0
thebookberrie's review
1.0
Girl what the hell was this?
I was going to try explaining what this book is about but bitch I got nothing. This was absolutely nonsensical and I wasted too much time on this. YA gender bent Great Gatsby? I see none of that. We Were Liars? Yeah I see some of that because that book was nonsense too lmao.
All of the characters in this book were awful and not in a fun way. Every single person and every interaction, awful. Everything they do. Awful. The world? What. None of this makes any damn sense and I don't even get what the author was trying to do here. Then there is some tWiSt and it was so lame. Which that didn't make sense either!!!!
I want to say I hate it but I literally didn't grasp enough to even hate this is just a stupid void that I wasted a couple hours on.
I was going to try explaining what this book is about but bitch I got nothing. This was absolutely nonsensical and I wasted too much time on this. YA gender bent Great Gatsby? I see none of that. We Were Liars? Yeah I see some of that because that book was nonsense too lmao.
All of the characters in this book were awful and not in a fun way. Every single person and every interaction, awful. Everything they do. Awful. The world? What. None of this makes any damn sense and I don't even get what the author was trying to do here. Then there is some tWiSt and it was so lame. Which that didn't make sense either!!!!
I want to say I hate it but I literally didn't grasp enough to even hate this is just a stupid void that I wasted a couple hours on.
mskingbean86's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
sad
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
1.0
IM SORRY I JUST CANT ENJOY THIS ITS TOO CONFUSING
exorcismemily's review
2.0
2.5⭐
Tell Me My Name is a YA Gatsby retelling, and it's the first of many Gatsby-related books that I hope to read now that it's in the public domain! I initially enjoyed this book, but my interest started to wane after a while. It felt like there were two different books happening, and things got unnecessarily complicated for the sake of a twist. I liked the concept more than the execution.
CW - racism, classism, domestic abuse, addiction, cheating, mentions of rape
Tell Me My Name is a YA Gatsby retelling, and it's the first of many Gatsby-related books that I hope to read now that it's in the public domain! I initially enjoyed this book, but my interest started to wane after a while. It felt like there were two different books happening, and things got unnecessarily complicated for the sake of a twist. I liked the concept more than the execution.
CW - racism, classism, domestic abuse, addiction, cheating, mentions of rape
lyssa_lee's review
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.0
maggiesasha's review
3.0
I really liked Clean when I was younger so I was excited about this one. I didn't love the writing style here and I wish I didn't read it spoiled, because the plot twist was cool. It's meets Gatsby.