Normally I don't write or rate books that I haven't finished. But sorry, this book is an exception.

I did not finish this book. I dropped the book about halfway.

Why?

Emmy + Justin. 2 totally annoying, whiny and bleh characters.

Emmy is all boohoo the world left her and oh boohoo I am fat and I totally don't need anger management (this said while screaming it out loud). In the beginning I was like: Aww, that sucks for you, sorry to hear about the bullying, but by halfway of the book I was like: Oh shut up and do something useful with your life, it is not like you didn't have any fault in what happened.

Then we got Justin. Ah Justin, a big idiot and though he doesn't think so, he likes sex. What did he do? Oh he wanted to prank his mom, you know for attention, and what did he pick for prank? Oh just taking a whole bunch of Tylenol. Of course any normal person would know this is a big NO-NO and that you might die from it. Justin... Justin just didn't know, thought it would be funny. *rolls eyes*
The way Justin talks through the book just annoyed me highly.

IN short, I won't be reading this book further, and I would advise people to not read this.

Normally I don't write or rate books that I haven't finished. But sorry, this book is an exception.

I did not finish this book. I dropped the book about halfway.

Why?

Emmy + Justin. 2 totally annoying, whiny and bleh characters.

Emmy is all boohoo the world left her and oh boohoo I am fat and I totally don't need anger management (this said while screaming it out loud). In the beginning I was like: Aww, that sucks for you, sorry to hear about the bullying, but by halfway of the book I was like: Oh shut up and do something useful with your life, it is not like you didn't have any fault in what happened.

Then we got Justin. Ah Justin, a big idiot and though he doesn't think so, he likes sex. What did he do? Oh he wanted to prank his mom, you know for attention, and what did he pick for prank? Oh just taking a whole bunch of Tylenol. Of course any normal person would know this is a big NO-NO and that you might die from it. Justin... Justin just didn't know, thought it would be funny. *rolls eyes*
The way Justin talks through the book just annoyed me highly.

IN short, I won't be reading this book further, and I would advise people to not read this.

My Goal is to read all. I'd be pleased if finished 8 out of the 10.  

 

Arc provided by netgalley

DNF at 60 %

 

I really try not to leave books unfinished, but any more of this, and i would be the one needing psychiatric help..

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To say that this didn't correspond to my expectations would be putting it mildly.
This was just unbelievable bad....in a sort of reality kids show bad!!

 

I read the synopsis and it sounded like this could be something interesting...kids with vary different problems coming together and helping one another.

What i got: spoiled brats who wouldn't look as far as their belly button...

 

One of these characters, Emmy has an eating disorder....but do her disease gets treated with respect by the other members?
Or even by the authors?
The answer is a big fat NO.

 

The other kids have the social skills of cockroaches.

And the authors would have us believe, that a kid with this sort of problem wouldn't have to start adjusting her eating habits!

No, she gets there, and immediately has to start eating everything they place on her plate!!
Amazing...

 

Then immediately after the story starts, there's an attempt at insta love! Right!!

 

 

Because that's what matters...who cares if the girl is trying to starve herself to death, and the guy tried to kill himself?

This is an YA book! Of course there's got BE LOBE!! And LOBE directed at a schumck who treats her as if she's only being fanciful about food...yeah, he makes a lot of interesting remarks...

 

In fact, pretty much all the teens in the book, come out as spoiled brats!

I guess the authors were aiming for troubled and problematic, but as far as i'm concerned, they only got into the spoiled brats level.

 

The comments, and remarks display an incredible nonexistent level of empathy for anyone that not themselves.

They're arrogant, snarky, politically incorrect characters, who enjoy making cruel/racists and stupid remarks.

 

“Honestly, don’t you see how stupid this skinny thing is? You have notits or ass left. No guy is ever gonna think you’re hot.” (Diana to Emmy)

Yes, they're basically too stupid to live...

 

Maybe further along the line, they'll wont be half as bad, but honestly i've had enough of this.

I'm really close to stop reading this!!

I hate to leave unfinished books, but stupidity really gets on my nerves...

 

Here we have a bunch of teens with serious problems, like eating disorders, suicides, and the eating disorder is mostly treated as a joke by the other teens...in fact, it is mostly treated lightly by everyone.

 

 

Hey kid, so, you don't eat?

Here's the solution: see all that food?? You gonna stuff yourself with it!

See? Problem solved...

 

Here's an example :

"Monday morning I was the second one to breakfast, so I went to sit next to Emmy, who was doing her daily honeydew autopsy. “You don’t have to,” (..)
“Um. But can I sit here with you?” I could hear my voice sounding kind of angry. I mean, it wasn’t like we were besties, and I might have hassled her about her food stuff. But I still kind of liked Emmy, and it pissed me off that she didn’t seem to like me much today."

Justin

 

See, he might have hassled about her food stuff...but he didn't!

He's clearly a respectful human being!