on August 18th 2015
Also by this author: My Life Next Door
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A surprising, utterly romantic companion to My Life Next Doorāgreat for fans of Sarah Dessen and Jenny Han
Tim Mason was The Boy Most Likely To find the liquor cabinet blindfolded, need a liver transplant, and drive his car into a house.
Alice Garrett was The Girl Most Likely To . . . well, not date her little brotherās baggage-burdened best friend, for starters.
For Tim, it wouldnāt be smart to fall for Alice. For Alice, nothing could be scarier than falling for Tim. But Tim has never been known for making the smart choice, and Alice is starting to wonder if the āsmartā choice is always the right one. When these two crash into each other, they crash hard.
Then the unexpected consequences of Timās wild days come back to shock him. He finds himself in a situation that isnāt all it appears to be, that he never could have predicted . . . but maybe should have.
And Alice is caught in the middle.
Told in Timās and Aliceās distinctive, disarming, entirely compelling voices, this novel is for readers of The Spectacular Now, Nick and Norahās Infinite Playlist, and Paper Towns.
I AM SAD AND DISAPPOINTED. I don’t know how else to start this review. šĀ In the first book, I didn’t really like Tim at all. He grew on me, for sure, but not enough to make me say “hey I’d love to read a book about him.” Regardless, when I saw this one on Scribd, I thought it’d be a perfect audiobook to start. I was pretty interested at the beginning and Tim continued to grow on me even more. And then the TWIST happened (which happens so early in the book that it feels weird to call it a spoiler?) and everything went downhill. Don’t worry, I’ll be spoiler-free for a while. In the most general terms I can say, I didn’t MIND this turn of events. It’s not what I was expecting when I set out to read this book, but it also wasn’t surprising. I knew exactly what was going to happen when certain things started happening. Sorry for the vagueness, but go with it. Regardless, I don’t think this particular element of the story (which turned into pretty much the entire plot) bothered me like it may have bothered others. I didn’t care about Tim much so it didn’t upset me thatĀ this was happening to him. I was intrigued but slowly that interest waned. I had a big feeling of what was going to happen by the end of the book, so it all felt pointless to me. There were some pretty big glaring holes that for some reason no one was thinking of. I was rolling my eyes and scratching my head quite a bit throughout the whole thing.
AND now for the spoilers, hidden neatly in here before I wrap up the review:Ā View Spoiler » I really didn’t think that this particular storyline would bother me that much, but it did. It’s not because I loved Tim and wanted more for him, but because it all felt stupid and unnecessary and preventable.
Now that Tim’s shit is out of the way, I’ll move on to Alice. As a character, I just didn’t connect with her at all. Honestly she has all the makings of someone I’d like, but I didn’t feel it. I think the biggest reason was because Tim’s issues were so HUGE and his chapters were more frequent than hers.Ā This book did not need two points of view at all. I would have been completely satisfied (that’s an exaggeration I guess) with just Tim’s. Her problems with money and her father’s health were definitely big, but they never got the right amount of attention. It just wasn’t necessary.
Because I didn’t care much about Alice or Tim, really, I couldn’t even ship them too much. I’m glad they were trying things out because they seemed like a good pair, but whatever.Ā ĀÆ\_(ć)_/ĀÆ Ā No feels or swoons or anything. I actually rolled my eyes a bit and cringed during the inevitable they-finally-hooked-up scene. Not a fan. Not sure why, but it just didn’t work.
I also hate that I didn’t like the writing too much. Tim’s voice felt weird. I didn’t get the way he talked in awkwardly phrased sentences… ESPECIALLY because we know that he’s smart, based on everything that happens in the previous book. I don’t know how to describe it, but it just didn’t jive with me.
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Overall: | 2.8 |
Nooo! I was the same way with the previous book. Loved it, hated Time.. but he grew on me by the end. I was actually excited to read his book because I felt like his character would have some depth to it. Sounds like the author missed the mark on this one though. š
I know :/ I was NOT a fan of him in the first book and was hoping for some growth. I definitely liked him more by the end of this book, but the story overall just didn’t click for me. So sad.
I completely agree that we didn’t need Alice’s perspective and her plotlines were pretty lame and unexplored compared to Tim’s and also that the romance was pretty meh. I also agree that everything about Tim’s big storyline was predictable. However, I did like Tim in the first book (he had to grow on me) and while he annoyed me sometimes here, I did mostly enjoy his parts.
Yeah I know what you mean. I generally liked him and he grew on me, but I felt like so much of what happened in the book could have been avoided. I couldn’t get that fact out of my head!
So sorry you didn’t enjoy this book! I actually really enjoyed the plot and characters of this book. Really great hearing your thoughts on the book and hopefully, the next Huntley Fitz book you read, you like!
~Kaitlin
I hope so too! I just have one more of hers left.
Ahhhh I am nervous now! I pre-ordered this book but haven’t gotten around to it yet, and I’m surprised you had such a strong negative reaction (however, I didn’t read the spoiler section of your review, waiting until after I read the book!) I’m intrigued by Tim as a character but admit that I am a little wary to read about Alice just because I don’t think I’ll “care” about her enough as a character, if that makes sense?
Yep I understand!! I hope you like it more than I did š I just don’t know about the whole spoiler section and my thoughts on it. Definitely let me know when you finish!
Oh no! I liked this one, not as much as My Life Next Door, but a lot more than What I Thought Was True. (I really, really disliked that one.)
I was really sad by the ending, though. I just thought it was a really cruel thing to do to Tim, especially after he worked to get everything together.
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