A review by kricketa
Bumped by Megan McCafferty
2.0
i'm so sorry, dear book club. with great excitement i picked this book for our may meeting. i really love the jessica darling series so i'd been waiting for mccafferty's new series with bated breath (whatever that means.) alas, i found this lacking for a few reasons:
1. it grates on my nerves when books set in the future have all this crazy new lingo and cute names for new inventions. seriously, nails on the chalkboard. i get why authors do this but it doesn't keep it from feeling contrived and overly precious to me. i had the same problem with westerfeld's "uglies."
2. i felt like i wasn't getting a complete picture of either of the main characters. maybe because we switch back and forth so much? it felt like just a skimming of the top of who they were- all of them: melody, harmony, zen, jondoe, ram. speaking of which...ugh on all the names. ugh ugh.
3. even as she was writing from harmony's perspective, i felt like mccafferty wasn't genuinely getting her. it seemed like she was making fun of harmony's faith even as she was inside her head. maybe harmony as a character was supposed to be funny- kind of airheaded and "godfreaky" but i think a good writer would have taken her more seriously.
end rant for now. sorry again, friends.
1. it grates on my nerves when books set in the future have all this crazy new lingo and cute names for new inventions. seriously, nails on the chalkboard. i get why authors do this but it doesn't keep it from feeling contrived and overly precious to me. i had the same problem with westerfeld's "uglies."
2. i felt like i wasn't getting a complete picture of either of the main characters. maybe because we switch back and forth so much? it felt like just a skimming of the top of who they were- all of them: melody, harmony, zen, jondoe, ram. speaking of which...ugh on all the names. ugh ugh.
3. even as she was writing from harmony's perspective, i felt like mccafferty wasn't genuinely getting her. it seemed like she was making fun of harmony's faith even as she was inside her head. maybe harmony as a character was supposed to be funny- kind of airheaded and "godfreaky" but i think a good writer would have taken her more seriously.
end rant for now. sorry again, friends.