A review by readingwithgee_
You Can't Hide by Sarah Mussi
1.0
TW- abuse
You can't hide is a YA thriller told from our main protagonist Lexi's POV, she wakes up in a treatment centre, barely able to move and certainly unable to remember why she's even there, all she knows is that herself and her mother fled from England to America to escape her mum's abusive boyfriend, but everything from then on is a blur. We follow Lexi's road to recovery with the help of her aunt Gillian and her friend Crystal and her desperate attempts to piece together the mystery that is her life.
I found that basically almost every character in this book was either VERY immature or crazy! Or in our main protagonist's case, a bit of both! Every decision lexi seemed to make had a strange, angering effect on me, not only was there a weird over the top instalove with someone she maybe spoke too 5 times for all of 10 minutes before she was "madly in love with him" but she kept continuously putting herself and her mother in danger to carry on being with this person, I don't know I just think she had a very unhealthy obsession and it was just weird, and selfish.
Faults aside, I do still think that the premise of the book is great, if it was written slightly better and maybe more time was spent on the overall plot and character built up then I could 100% see myself enjoying it!
Thank you to Netgalley for sending me an e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review, I gave this book 1.5 stars
Full review on my blog https://georgiabooks.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/you-cant-hide-sarah-mussi-review/#more-201
You can't hide is a YA thriller told from our main protagonist Lexi's POV, she wakes up in a treatment centre, barely able to move and certainly unable to remember why she's even there, all she knows is that herself and her mother fled from England to America to escape her mum's abusive boyfriend, but everything from then on is a blur. We follow Lexi's road to recovery with the help of her aunt Gillian and her friend Crystal and her desperate attempts to piece together the mystery that is her life.
I found that basically almost every character in this book was either VERY immature or crazy! Or in our main protagonist's case, a bit of both! Every decision lexi seemed to make had a strange, angering effect on me, not only was there a weird over the top instalove with someone she maybe spoke too 5 times for all of 10 minutes before she was "madly in love with him" but she kept continuously putting herself and her mother in danger to carry on being with this person, I don't know I just think she had a very unhealthy obsession and it was just weird, and selfish.
Faults aside, I do still think that the premise of the book is great, if it was written slightly better and maybe more time was spent on the overall plot and character built up then I could 100% see myself enjoying it!
Thank you to Netgalley for sending me an e-arc of this book in exchange for an honest review, I gave this book 1.5 stars
Full review on my blog https://georgiabooks.wordpress.com/2019/01/28/you-cant-hide-sarah-mussi-review/#more-201