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A review by blurrypetals
Tempest by Julie Cross
2.0
This book is an excellent example of near-perfect marketing and absolutely beautiful, striking cover design getting people to read a book because I first saw this book right when it came out, five fucking years ago and I have not for one second forgotten the cover, nor have I forgotten how badly I wanted to spend some of my birthday/graduation money on it on more than just a few--several, in fact--occasions, but convincing myself I didn't need to buy it, I didn't need that gorgeous cover on my shelves.
Thank god past-Sara didn't buy it. Unfortunately, the recent past-Sara still found the audiobook at the library one evening, knew it was free to listen to, and checked it out. Can I get Jackson's powers so I can get the time I wasted on this book back, please? Because it was quite a lot of time; it took me a fucking month to read this tiny book because it was such a slog.
I should have just dropped it after a certain point, but it was the only book I had on my phone and I kept forgetting to put something else on there and it was just barely engaging enough that I slogged through. I even fell asleep during a part near the end during a car ride and, after re-listening to see if I'd missed anything pivotal (and realizing I hadn't) I gladly just listened to E-Dubble for the rest of my vacation to get myself out of the bad mood this book left me in.
Fuck books that retcon their entire plots with endings like this book's garbage ending, 'aight? 'Aight.
Thank god past-Sara didn't buy it. Unfortunately, the recent past-Sara still found the audiobook at the library one evening, knew it was free to listen to, and checked it out. Can I get Jackson's powers so I can get the time I wasted on this book back, please? Because it was quite a lot of time; it took me a fucking month to read this tiny book because it was such a slog.
I should have just dropped it after a certain point, but it was the only book I had on my phone and I kept forgetting to put something else on there and it was just barely engaging enough that I slogged through. I even fell asleep during a part near the end during a car ride and, after re-listening to see if I'd missed anything pivotal (and realizing I hadn't) I gladly just listened to E-Dubble for the rest of my vacation to get myself out of the bad mood this book left me in.
Fuck books that retcon their entire plots with endings like this book's garbage ending, 'aight? 'Aight.