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A review by bookish_kristina
Halfway Girl by Tessa Bailey
2.0
I don’t have much to say about this one, it was super short. I wouldn’t read this if you haven’t read Runaway girl as most of Birdie’s character development is done in that book, in this one she will seem very sad and boring if you don’t have that background. That being said, this book just moved too fast. There is instalove and there is insanity, this was the latter. Birdie was way too young and shouldn’t have been moving in with her grown boyfriend two weeks after meeting him, diabetes or not. Maybe I just can’t read YA or NA type books anymore now that I have kids, the mom in me just gets too angry.
Side note: the timeline of this book doesn’t track with the timeline in Runaway Girl. Birdie is finishing high school in that book when Naomi meets Jason. Fast forward maybe four months and Jason and Naomi have a baby and are married and he is back from his deployment? Unless Birdie took a gap year this is impossible. And since Jeremiah states there is an almost four year age gap between them, I’m thinking a gap year didn’t happen. Sorry, Naomi would not have had time to gestate a baby and have a newborn by the time Birdie was a few weeks into her freshman year. Even rodents don’t breed that quickly.
Side note: the timeline of this book doesn’t track with the timeline in Runaway Girl. Birdie is finishing high school in that book when Naomi meets Jason. Fast forward maybe four months and Jason and Naomi have a baby and are married and he is back from his deployment? Unless Birdie took a gap year this is impossible. And since Jeremiah states there is an almost four year age gap between them, I’m thinking a gap year didn’t happen. Sorry, Naomi would not have had time to gestate a baby and have a newborn by the time Birdie was a few weeks into her freshman year. Even rodents don’t breed that quickly.