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A review by rewoba
Need by Carrie Jones
1.0
Good reads been suggesting this book to me for a very long time and I've finally decided to gave in....and boy I am disappointed.
Positives - its an easy read. Something that doesn't strain your brain and is not too over-complicated.
Negatives...where do I start?!
Lets start with main character. I get that most YA books are written so that any girl could relate to the main character, so the main character is rarely well described. But this is a new level of vague. I don't think I know anything about Zara, I don't even thing they mentioned how old she is. Apart from the phobias, there wasn't anything there, AT ALL. And it wasn't just her. Other characters had some characteristics that weren't explored. E.g. Issie suppose to be funny and light and bubbly and apart from one comment about loving bunnies, I didn't get that from her.
The plot is not very well thought through. It felt too rushed in some places and too strained for urban fantasy. I know its not easy to plant fantasy creatures into everyday lives but this is just half asked efforts. The "bad guys" were essentially non-existent. There were suppose to be hundreds of them but you don't get that feeling of being in danger or even being threatened by the number of them. There are huge overuse of famous quotes and sayings. I get the whole "Amnesty international" turn to dark side "plot twist" but it was getting so boring and annoying. Any discussion about anything end up about some "innocent prisoners that need saving". "Someone trying to kill me, but its not as bad as kids dying in Africa, so I shouldn't complain"
The relationship is a typical - love from the first sight, soulmate from the first touch so I won't even go into it. Nothing really out of the ordinary there.
Overall....meh
Positives - its an easy read. Something that doesn't strain your brain and is not too over-complicated.
Negatives...where do I start?!
Lets start with main character. I get that most YA books are written so that any girl could relate to the main character, so the main character is rarely well described. But this is a new level of vague. I don't think I know anything about Zara, I don't even thing they mentioned how old she is. Apart from the phobias, there wasn't anything there, AT ALL. And it wasn't just her. Other characters had some characteristics that weren't explored. E.g. Issie suppose to be funny and light and bubbly and apart from one comment about loving bunnies, I didn't get that from her.
The plot is not very well thought through. It felt too rushed in some places and too strained for urban fantasy. I know its not easy to plant fantasy creatures into everyday lives but this is just half asked efforts. The "bad guys" were essentially non-existent. There were suppose to be hundreds of them but you don't get that feeling of being in danger or even being threatened by the number of them. There are huge overuse of famous quotes and sayings. I get the whole "Amnesty international" turn to dark side "plot twist" but it was getting so boring and annoying. Any discussion about anything end up about some "innocent prisoners that need saving". "Someone trying to kill me, but its not as bad as kids dying in Africa, so I shouldn't complain"
The relationship is a typical - love from the first sight, soulmate from the first touch so I won't even go into it. Nothing really out of the ordinary there.
Overall....meh