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review 2016-11-17 22:58
Coin Heist (Review)
Coin Heist - Elisa Ludwig

It’s been roughly a year and a half since I read this book. That being said, I give mad props to book bloggers who manage to juggle their blogging responsibilities while maintaining good grades in their classes because I had absolutely no time to manage my blog during school. However, I have now graduated from college with a degree in English and creative writing, and I’m ready to start catching up!

 

However, lots of my reviews for books I read a long time ago (like this one) simply aren’t going to be very detailed… That’s my fault for having put these off for so long, and not writing reviews when I finish a book, like I used to. So instead of my usually detailed “What I Liked/What I Didn’t Like” sections, I’m going to give a basic overview of why I rated this book the way I did (since I, unfortunately, can’t remember enough to make a pros and cons list).

 

Coin Heist started out okay enough for me, although the four points of view made it difficult for me to engage in the narrative. One thing that I’ve found especially difficult for writers of multiple-POV novels is making the characters’ voices different enough that it’s believable. Unfortunately, Ludwig did not succeed in creating those distinctions for me, and the characters all blurred and muddled together in a way they shouldn’t have for how “diverse” they were supposed to be.

 

In addition, the concept of teenagers robbing a bank has the taste of “lame teenage movie” for me because there’s no good way for it to end. Either the characters have to decide not to go through with their plan (since promoting robbery to teenagers isn’t a great idea) or something will happen that they need go through with their plans in order to stop something bad from happening (even though they’ve changed their minds). And then if that happens, they will either barely escape, or they will be caught by security guards who let them go because they didn’t mean any harm anymore. This is almost exactly how Coin Heist ended, with a few more details specific to the plot of the novel (what with the school’s financial situation and everything). It was like there was no way to impress me as a reader because the ending had been determined by the basic plot idea.

 

While nothing stood out to me so much as to make me hate this book, it also failed to shine as an impressive novel because the characters were lackluster and one-dimensional, and there was absolutely no surprise or suspense in the plot at all. I wish I could have enjoyed it more (and I wish I could have written a better review… a year and a half ago), but it needed more suspense and color to make it stand out.

 

(http://thaliasbooks.tumblr.com/post/153318515077/coin-heist-review)

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text 2015-07-02 00:49
Finished!
Coin Heist - Elisa Ludwig

Guess what??

It ended almost exactly how I predicted! Isn't that weird?

 

//sarcasm

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text 2015-07-01 20:14
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Coin Heist - Elisa Ludwig

So, of course you can't have a novel about teenagers who decide to do something highly illegal and let them go through with it--either with successfully completeing their mission (morally wrong--can't really promote that in YA) or actually dealing with the consequences of being caught (going to prison). 

 

So they had a change of heart! And, instead of realizing what they were going to do was wrong, they changed the plan because teenagers get into fights and get pissed at eachother for stupid reasons!

 

Now we're here. And they have to go through it anyway ("for the right reasons" and all), which means I'm predicting, they'll either finish the job and destroy the money as planned, or they'll get caught but the guards/police won't charge them with anything because either they didn't want the money now, or something along the lines of "All this money is faulty anyway--pay for the material, and the school is a good enough cause for us to donate to." 

 

Something like that, right?

 

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text 2015-06-30 21:44
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Coin Heist - Elisa Ludwig

There are four different points of view running around in this book, and they all sound exactly the same (except with different backstories). The plot seems far fetched to me and not very realstic, but I'm willing to see how it plays out. I wish the chapters overlapped a bit more--when it switches point of view, the new character doesn't seem to address anything the previous chapter went through, which bothers me. I need a little more connection between everything to make it feel more cohesive.

 

The writing is okay, but not great. We'll see.

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