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A review by gabography
Chlorine by Jade Song
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
i should've read the reviews before going in lol. not because of any triggering moments, but because of the issues i had with the mc and the writing.
something ain't right when you can't tell if a word or metaphor choice is the author speaking or the character, and i scratched my head a bit as i read. as some reviews have said, the mc is giving angsty "you're all below me, bleh" vibes the whole time and while that can absolutely be interesting to read, it's not here. ren has an ego on top of being delulu and i don't know if the author has quite figured out how to make her a character worth following or caring about as she whines for the tenth time about wanting to be a mermaid and how all humans suck. like someone on goodreads said, it's giving "my immortal".
and that's where i get to the writing and story overall. is this ya? it sure sounds like ya. is it really horror? not really, unless you count a body mutilation scene. is it sapphic romance? ehhh, there's a girl she likes. that's kinda true. this book is labeled as and trying to be a lot of things, and i think that's part of its problem. and again, the mc's narration and feelings make that jumbled mess such a head-scratcher because after a while i wondered why should i care. and i was a sports girl with pressure from coaches and family all while in those formative teen years of everything changing and feeling weird. this just leaned a little too much into the weird that it wasn't only unrelatable; it was so uninteresting.
and i just need to mention the blue eyes white dragon analogy because huh?? lmao???
something ain't right when you can't tell if a word or metaphor choice is the author speaking or the character, and i scratched my head a bit as i read. as some reviews have said, the mc is giving angsty "you're all below me, bleh" vibes the whole time and while that can absolutely be interesting to read, it's not here. ren has an ego on top of being delulu and i don't know if the author has quite figured out how to make her a character worth following or caring about as she whines for the tenth time about wanting to be a mermaid and how all humans suck. like someone on goodreads said, it's giving "my immortal".
and that's where i get to the writing and story overall. is this ya? it sure sounds like ya. is it really horror? not really, unless you count a body mutilation scene. is it sapphic romance? ehhh, there's a girl she likes. that's kinda true. this book is labeled as and trying to be a lot of things, and i think that's part of its problem. and again, the mc's narration and feelings make that jumbled mess such a head-scratcher because after a while i wondered why should i care. and i was a sports girl with pressure from coaches and family all while in those formative teen years of everything changing and feeling weird. this just leaned a little too much into the weird that it wasn't only unrelatable; it was so uninteresting.
and i just need to mention the blue eyes white dragon analogy because huh?? lmao???