A review by emperorcupcake
Paper Valentine by Brenna Yovanoff
3.0
3.5
Ok look, I don't like romance. I like murder. You can keep your popular jocks and millionaires and doctors and lawyers and such - even your cowboys! - but if you present me with a kind, misunderstood Bad Boy from The Wrong Side of the Tracks, you got me. Dear god, I'm only human. I wouldn't read a whole book about that but you put it in my murder book, I'm not gonna be mad.
This is a YA supernatural thriller with a romance. It is nothing earth-shattering, but I like Brenna Yovanoff's writing. There's an effortless honesty to it. I loved her story in Toil and Trouble, which brought me here. And I liked this too, though sometimes novel-length YA can test my patience. I'm so beyond caring about things like mean girls and fitting in and high school hierarchies, but I understand I'm not the intended audience. And I still enjoyed it, so of course I'd recommend this to teens. I also love stories that are about the value of people you can just be yourself with - like without even having to think about it - even if they're not the so-called "right" people, and that's a big theme in this book.
One thing that bothered me tho - the paper valentines are never explained! like we know who left them, but not WHY. What is the significance of the title of the dang book, please??
Ok look, I don't like romance. I like murder. You can keep your popular jocks and millionaires and doctors and lawyers and such - even your cowboys! - but if you present me with a kind, misunderstood Bad Boy from The Wrong Side of the Tracks, you got me. Dear god, I'm only human. I wouldn't read a whole book about that but you put it in my murder book, I'm not gonna be mad.
This is a YA supernatural thriller with a romance. It is nothing earth-shattering, but I like Brenna Yovanoff's writing. There's an effortless honesty to it. I loved her story in Toil and Trouble, which brought me here. And I liked this too, though sometimes novel-length YA can test my patience. I'm so beyond caring about things like mean girls and fitting in and high school hierarchies, but I understand I'm not the intended audience. And I still enjoyed it, so of course I'd recommend this to teens. I also love stories that are about the value of people you can just be yourself with - like without even having to think about it - even if they're not the so-called "right" people, and that's a big theme in this book.
One thing that bothered me tho - the paper valentines are never explained! like we know who left them, but not WHY. What is the significance of the title of the dang book, please??