A review by vespurr
The Possible by Tara Altebrando
2.0
The truly unfortunate thing about this book is what great potential it had. I feel like the CONCEPT was great. Podcasts are so relevant right now, and a teenager with a potentially psychic mother in prison for murder? What a plot! I personally listen to a whole range of both true crime and paranormal podcasts and felt this book COULD HAVE been great.
It wasn't. It was roughly 300 pages long but so much of it was taken up by large-print snippets of text messages and one liners. It read extremely fast, but that isn't always a good thing. There didn't seem to be enough actual story, and it was completely underdeveloped.
Kaylee is bratty and self-centered, and none of the other characters are fleshed out well enough to become attached to them.
Additionally, I realize this is YA, but you don't have to constantly vomit up pop culture references to seem relevant.
This book had so much potential, but it turned out to be extremely underwhelming and failed to deliver. It was far too 'short' in terms of content (I read it cover to cover in a matter of a couple hours), and I finished it feeling sadly disappointed. To be honest, I considered just calling this a DNF, but the quickness of it made it easy to finish despite it's shortcomings.
The one positive I can say for this book is the cover is absolutely stunning. It does have probably the most beautiful cover art I have seen all year so far.
It wasn't. It was roughly 300 pages long but so much of it was taken up by large-print snippets of text messages and one liners. It read extremely fast, but that isn't always a good thing. There didn't seem to be enough actual story, and it was completely underdeveloped.
Kaylee is bratty and self-centered, and none of the other characters are fleshed out well enough to become attached to them.
Additionally, I realize this is YA, but you don't have to constantly vomit up pop culture references to seem relevant.
This book had so much potential, but it turned out to be extremely underwhelming and failed to deliver. It was far too 'short' in terms of content (I read it cover to cover in a matter of a couple hours), and I finished it feeling sadly disappointed. To be honest, I considered just calling this a DNF, but the quickness of it made it easy to finish despite it's shortcomings.
The one positive I can say for this book is the cover is absolutely stunning. It does have probably the most beautiful cover art I have seen all year so far.