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A review by chrissymcbooknerd
On the Rocks by Ellen Hopkins
2.0
Oh, Ellen Hopkins! What have you done?!
Since this story is so short, I can't let my review be longer than the story itself -- so I'll be brief. I adore everything I've read from Hopkins, and I especially love all that she manages to convey through her style of verse, which was not present in this story.
Ellen Hopkins without the verse just felt like a cheap Harlequin story here. Absolutely nothing special. What feels emotional and important in her regular style just felt overdone and weird in regular prose.
I was excited to read Loves Lies Beneath, but now I'm thinking....
Since this story is so short, I can't let my review be longer than the story itself -- so I'll be brief. I adore everything I've read from Hopkins, and I especially love all that she manages to convey through her style of verse, which was not present in this story.
Ellen Hopkins without the verse just felt like a cheap Harlequin story here. Absolutely nothing special. What feels emotional and important in her regular style just felt overdone and weird in regular prose.
I was excited to read Loves Lies Beneath, but now I'm thinking....