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A review by whoaitslei
Nothing Happened by Molly Horton Booth
1.0
1.5*
I wanted to like this book so much, I love queer retellings of anything, and the cast was pretty diverse, But this book was very possibly the most boring book I've read all year. I know the book is literally called nothing happened, but this was criminally boring. The book was super fast paced, but somehow it still retained it's blandness. Everything in this book was super rushed from the romance to the general plot of the novel. Not that there's much plot. And that'd fine, but when a book doesn't really have a plot it needs to have really good characters that make the reader care about them in any sense. The character have to be really strong, their arc has to be interesting. AND NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS WERE INTERESTING OR REALISTIC
The characters did not resemble the age they were being portrayed as AT ALL. The main characters were all sixteen plus (except for one I believe). They reminded me of twelve years olds and at most thirteen. When they cursed and talked about sex it made me so uncomfortable because it wasn't really established in my mind that they weren't preteens or early teens. Some of these characters were in college! I just feel so disappointed by this book, I think it could have been good if the book would have spanned out across several summers and was written in a more mature tone. The we could fall in love with the characters (who by the way were indecipherable from each other, all of them having the same tone except for the "villain" of the story). Anyway extremely disappointed.
I wanted to like this book so much, I love queer retellings of anything, and the cast was pretty diverse, But this book was very possibly the most boring book I've read all year. I know the book is literally called nothing happened, but this was criminally boring. The book was super fast paced, but somehow it still retained it's blandness. Everything in this book was super rushed from the romance to the general plot of the novel. Not that there's much plot. And that'd fine, but when a book doesn't really have a plot it needs to have really good characters that make the reader care about them in any sense. The character have to be really strong, their arc has to be interesting. AND NONE OF THESE CHARACTERS WERE INTERESTING OR REALISTIC
The characters did not resemble the age they were being portrayed as AT ALL. The main characters were all sixteen plus (except for one I believe). They reminded me of twelve years olds and at most thirteen. When they cursed and talked about sex it made me so uncomfortable because it wasn't really established in my mind that they weren't preteens or early teens. Some of these characters were in college! I just feel so disappointed by this book, I think it could have been good if the book would have spanned out across several summers and was written in a more mature tone. The we could fall in love with the characters (who by the way were indecipherable from each other, all of them having the same tone except for the "villain" of the story). Anyway extremely disappointed.