A review by bridget_books
Boys Are Dogs by Leslie Margolis
2.0
I'm going to start by saying I should have read this immediately when I got it because I would have enjoyed it a lot more then. Now, I'm reading more YA and books with a completely different feel from this one which made me not really like it at all.
24/100 (1 3/4 stars)
Characters: 7/20 (1/4 star)- I hated Annabelle, the main character, because she was so whiny about everything. She's upset she moved to this nice house 30 miles away, and she "had to pretend" not to like her dog because she didn't want her mom and her mom's boyfriend to know she liked the dog. I have moved a couple times and even though I might have been sad about leaving my friends, I was never as whiny about it as Annabelle. She was only moving 30 miles away, not that far away (they're still in the same state!), and I have moved over 1,000 miles away from my friends. I don't know if it was just my experiences, but I couldn't stand how she reacted to the whole situation. The only reason I didn't rate this lower is because there was character development by the end of the book.
Plot: 4/20 (1/4 star)- As i mentioned, I should have read this when I got it because the plot wasn't interesting to me, and I didn't really care what happened.
Setting: 3/20 (1/4 star)- There wasn't a lot of setting descriptions, just when Annabelle was complaining about her new, big house which annoyed me.
Writing: 8/20 (1 star)- The writing just wasn't for me. It was good, but the rest of the book I didn't like, so it didn't seem as good as it could have been in my eyes if the story was different.
Enjoyment: 2/20 (0 star)- It wasn't very realistic or if it was I've never seen anything like that happen, and adding that with everything else I mentioned in this review it just wasn't my type if book overall.
24/100 (1 3/4 stars)
Characters: 7/20 (1/4 star)- I hated Annabelle, the main character, because she was so whiny about everything. She's upset she moved to this nice house 30 miles away, and she "had to pretend" not to like her dog because she didn't want her mom and her mom's boyfriend to know she liked the dog. I have moved a couple times and even though I might have been sad about leaving my friends, I was never as whiny about it as Annabelle. She was only moving 30 miles away, not that far away (they're still in the same state!), and I have moved over 1,000 miles away from my friends. I don't know if it was just my experiences, but I couldn't stand how she reacted to the whole situation. The only reason I didn't rate this lower is because there was character development by the end of the book.
Plot: 4/20 (1/4 star)- As i mentioned, I should have read this when I got it because the plot wasn't interesting to me, and I didn't really care what happened.
Setting: 3/20 (1/4 star)- There wasn't a lot of setting descriptions, just when Annabelle was complaining about her new, big house which annoyed me.
Writing: 8/20 (1 star)- The writing just wasn't for me. It was good, but the rest of the book I didn't like, so it didn't seem as good as it could have been in my eyes if the story was different.
Enjoyment: 2/20 (0 star)- It wasn't very realistic or if it was I've never seen anything like that happen, and adding that with everything else I mentioned in this review it just wasn't my type if book overall.