IN TROUBLE (Carolrhoda Lab)
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I went into reading In Trouble with low expectations. I saw the ratings and read the reviews on Goodreads and they didn’t have me all too hopeful for the book. I wanted In Trouble to be a good book, to deliver the message it intended to bring to the reader. But although I can appreciate what Levine was trying to do, in the end she failed for me. In Trouble is about two best friends, Jamie and Elaine. Everything is peachy until Elaine contacts Jamie, they meet up and Elaine tells her best friend that she is pregnant. Neither of them knows what to do so Jamie tries to find ways for Elaine to get an abortion and Elaine struggles to find out what she really wants. What I liked about the book: There is not all that much. I liked some of the characters, Jamie (even though I often wanted to shake her), most members of her family and Paul. It was a quick read, easy to breeze through, despite the writing. What I didn’t like: The writing. It was clunky and messy. It jerks the reader around, tears him out of one scene and stuffs him into the next without any flow or notice. I was often thrown off, because I didn’t know what was going on all of a sudden. There is barely any transition between scenes and it makes for an unpleasant reading experience. There are letters incorporated into the story but one couldn’t always tell if it actually was a letter since some of them were written in cursive font and others were not. I would’ve liked to see consistent formatting here. The “movie-going-on-in-Jamie’s-head”-scenes. They simply didn’t work for me. They felt out of place and didn’t add anything to the story even though they were probably supposed to paint a picture in the reader’s mind. There is one of those scenes in the book, it’s written like a movie script but then suddenly we’re back to the writing of the rest of the book but still written in a different font when we’re then thrown back in movie script style. Either the formatting has to emphasize that part or everything has to be written in the same style. Elaine. I found her a completely unsympathetic character. I don’t have the patience for naïve and love blind characters. She hangs onto her boyfriend in such vigour, it made me want to skim over her scenes. I think In Trouble would’ve worked better as some kind of biography. Levine’s writing in the Author’s note was much more pleasant to read than the rest of the book and I wish she would have adapted it for the story. Disclaimer: An ARC of this book has been provided by Netgalley and the publisher for reviewing purposes.
Beiträge
I went into reading In Trouble with low expectations. I saw the ratings and read the reviews on Goodreads and they didn’t have me all too hopeful for the book. I wanted In Trouble to be a good book, to deliver the message it intended to bring to the reader. But although I can appreciate what Levine was trying to do, in the end she failed for me. In Trouble is about two best friends, Jamie and Elaine. Everything is peachy until Elaine contacts Jamie, they meet up and Elaine tells her best friend that she is pregnant. Neither of them knows what to do so Jamie tries to find ways for Elaine to get an abortion and Elaine struggles to find out what she really wants. What I liked about the book: There is not all that much. I liked some of the characters, Jamie (even though I often wanted to shake her), most members of her family and Paul. It was a quick read, easy to breeze through, despite the writing. What I didn’t like: The writing. It was clunky and messy. It jerks the reader around, tears him out of one scene and stuffs him into the next without any flow or notice. I was often thrown off, because I didn’t know what was going on all of a sudden. There is barely any transition between scenes and it makes for an unpleasant reading experience. There are letters incorporated into the story but one couldn’t always tell if it actually was a letter since some of them were written in cursive font and others were not. I would’ve liked to see consistent formatting here. The “movie-going-on-in-Jamie’s-head”-scenes. They simply didn’t work for me. They felt out of place and didn’t add anything to the story even though they were probably supposed to paint a picture in the reader’s mind. There is one of those scenes in the book, it’s written like a movie script but then suddenly we’re back to the writing of the rest of the book but still written in a different font when we’re then thrown back in movie script style. Either the formatting has to emphasize that part or everything has to be written in the same style. Elaine. I found her a completely unsympathetic character. I don’t have the patience for naïve and love blind characters. She hangs onto her boyfriend in such vigour, it made me want to skim over her scenes. I think In Trouble would’ve worked better as some kind of biography. Levine’s writing in the Author’s note was much more pleasant to read than the rest of the book and I wish she would have adapted it for the story. Disclaimer: An ARC of this book has been provided by Netgalley and the publisher for reviewing purposes.