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A review by peripetia
Maeve Fly by CJ Leede
2.0
My GOD do I want to give this a single little star, but the start wasn't bad, I'll give you that. I started the book while running on a treadmill, and I hate running, but this kept me entertained enough in the beginning.
The first maybe 50 pages or so were still interesting. And then, nothing happened until 50%, except a romance, which I was not expecting and didn't really enjoy.
The prose was fine mostly but it had such clichés and dumb lines that I couldn't get over.
He knows instinctively that I know. The ones who know always do. asfhggjj what the fuck.
We have also a he's too good for me. There's also a stupid passage about how Halloween is some kind of a deep release for people, for them to release their darkness or something. It's too long to put here.
Also I'm pretty sure she put in twice the same speech about how female villains need some kind of tragic backstory, unlike male villains (good point and I agree).
I got tired of her angst and her "I'm not like other girls" and "there's a wolf inside me". Additionally, I do not give a single fuck about Los Angeles and I don't get the references and I don't care.
As the story progressed, I got more and more bored. I did not care for the story. When the "extreme horror" finally started, I was rolling my eyes. I honestly didn't care for it and I don't think extreme horror is for me, but this was just such a stupid book. I've only seen the movie version of American Psycho but yeah, even I can see how much she copied from it.
All the characters are flat, but I liked her relationship with her grandmother and her friend. In the end, all these threads were just tied up suddenly (also the one with the love interest). The protagonist also finally goes off the rails in like the last 20 pages.
By the way, I hated the ending so much I would have slammed the book shut if I hadn't been reading an e-book.
Whatever this book tried to be, it wasn't. I think I actually straight up hate this book.
The first maybe 50 pages or so were still interesting. And then, nothing happened until 50%, except a romance, which I was not expecting and didn't really enjoy.
The prose was fine mostly but it had such clichés and dumb lines that I couldn't get over.
He knows instinctively that I know. The ones who know always do. asfhggjj what the fuck.
We have also a he's too good for me. There's also a stupid passage about how Halloween is some kind of a deep release for people, for them to release their darkness or something. It's too long to put here.
Also I'm pretty sure she put in twice the same speech about how female villains need some kind of tragic backstory, unlike male villains (good point and I agree).
I got tired of her angst and her "I'm not like other girls" and "there's a wolf inside me". Additionally, I do not give a single fuck about Los Angeles and I don't get the references and I don't care.
As the story progressed, I got more and more bored. I did not care for the story. When the "extreme horror" finally started, I was rolling my eyes. I honestly didn't care for it and I don't think extreme horror is for me, but this was just such a stupid book. I've only seen the movie version of American Psycho but yeah, even I can see how much she copied from it.
All the characters are flat, but I liked her relationship with her grandmother and her friend. In the end, all these threads were just tied up suddenly (also the one with the love interest). The protagonist also finally goes off the rails in like the last 20 pages.
By the way, I hated the ending so much I would have slammed the book shut if I hadn't been reading an e-book.
Whatever this book tried to be, it wasn't. I think I actually straight up hate this book.