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A review by geckoedit
Your Perfect Year by Charlotte Lucas
hopeful
informative
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
2.0
The showing vs telling was massively imbalanced, to the point where the big meeting between the two characters and their interactions are mostly off-screen or at such a great narrative distance that I felt cheated of the moment the whole book had been building towards. And that meant the romance aspect was completely unbelievable.
Sappy and full of clichés and trite self-help quotes. Big "manifest your destiny" energy which clashed with the idea of having agency and choosing T the change yourself. Both main characters were unlikeable. Plot twists and catalysts were mostly external, like other characters interfering as if the author hadn't figured out how to get from A to B.
This felt like a plot outline of the book I thought I was going to be reading. It had q lot of potential but missed the mark for me. It mostly feels like the author or publisher wanted to sell a similar diary and wrote this to go along with it.
Sappy and full of clichés and trite self-help quotes. Big "manifest your destiny" energy which clashed with the idea of having agency and choosing T the change yourself. Both main characters were unlikeable. Plot twists and catalysts were mostly external, like other characters interfering as if the author hadn't figured out how to get from A to B.
This felt like a plot outline of the book I thought I was going to be reading. It had q lot of potential but missed the mark for me. It mostly feels like the author or publisher wanted to sell a similar diary and wrote this to go along with it.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Grief, and Suicide attempt