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A review by jenntucci2
The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall
3.0
some of the dialogue is just cringey and shows how out of touch the author is with teenagers. this made the characters seem fake and I couldn’t connect with them. I especially noticed this when Clara decides to have a dance off to dance away the stress of her brother-in-law being accused with attempted rape. uhhhhhh.
the writing is very simplistic. some pages feel like, “he did this. then he did this. he also did this. he did that as he did this.” for entire paragraphs. this is childish writing.
page 183: as someone from massachusetts, there is no such college called “University of Boston.” A simple google search will tell you. There’s Boston University and University of Massachusetts - Boston. Details like this show that neither the editor nor the author bothered to check. it feels sloppy.
the book is drawn out with caricatured people and simple sentences. It’s very dialogue heavy, and the dialogue is written poorly. Nobody speaks like that. Also, the author inserts overly specific statistics to show how smart the main character is and to show how woke she is. It doesn’t blend well and is just awkward to read.
It got better towards the end, and I wish we saw more resolution and help with Sadie’s clear problems and blooming reliance on weed. I wish there was more writing about after the trial. Not a bad book, but definitely flawed. More so in the writing than the plot. Though, the plot had many issues and was very very unrealistic. For a book trying to talk about sensitive topics, let’s make it more realistic and less dramatized. I feel like the author wanted to comment on many issues (rape/sexual assault, anxiety, homophobia, age gap relationships/teacher abusing student, rich white privilege etc) at once and got overwhelmed.
the writing is very simplistic. some pages feel like, “he did this. then he did this. he also did this. he did that as he did this.” for entire paragraphs. this is childish writing.
page 183: as someone from massachusetts, there is no such college called “University of Boston.” A simple google search will tell you. There’s Boston University and University of Massachusetts - Boston. Details like this show that neither the editor nor the author bothered to check. it feels sloppy.
the book is drawn out with caricatured people and simple sentences. It’s very dialogue heavy, and the dialogue is written poorly. Nobody speaks like that. Also, the author inserts overly specific statistics to show how smart the main character is and to show how woke she is. It doesn’t blend well and is just awkward to read.
It got better towards the end, and I wish we saw more resolution and help with Sadie’s clear problems and blooming reliance on weed. I wish there was more writing about after the trial. Not a bad book, but definitely flawed. More so in the writing than the plot. Though, the plot had many issues and was very very unrealistic. For a book trying to talk about sensitive topics, let’s make it more realistic and less dramatized. I feel like the author wanted to comment on many issues (rape/sexual assault, anxiety, homophobia, age gap relationships/teacher abusing student, rich white privilege etc) at once and got overwhelmed.