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A review by deepower7
Let's Get Lost by Adi Alsaid
2.0
When they say it's for fans of John Green, they really mean it. Except that Green's books actually succeed in duping you into thinking they're good.
This doesn't. It does however, portray a world where men are rewarded, sympathised with, and martyred for being disturbingly obsessed with girls.
The main character is literally a flat, major Manic Pixie Dream Girl, who just floats into the lives of four different people and fixes everything. The book is split into sections of these four characters - this is a cute idea, but in reality, you just end up with rushed plots, characters with no substance, the mother of all insta-love cases, and because there's so much to cram in, the writing gets lazy and ends up just telling everything instead of showing. It is impossible to care about a single character with the amount of time we are given with them.
The way this story was told just killed the book; I actually think Leila's story might have been a good one, if we'd been in her head for more than 60 pages, which just makes it more disappointing.
This doesn't. It does however, portray a world where men are rewarded, sympathised with, and martyred for being disturbingly obsessed with girls.
The main character is literally a flat, major Manic Pixie Dream Girl, who just floats into the lives of four different people and fixes everything. The book is split into sections of these four characters - this is a cute idea, but in reality, you just end up with rushed plots, characters with no substance, the mother of all insta-love cases, and because there's so much to cram in, the writing gets lazy and ends up just telling everything instead of showing. It is impossible to care about a single character with the amount of time we are given with them.
The way this story was told just killed the book; I actually think Leila's story might have been a good one, if we'd been in her head for more than 60 pages, which just makes it more disappointing.