Never Sometimes Always
By: Adi Alsaid
Genre: YA realistic fiction
Pages: 320
Published: 2015
Read: March
2 out of 5
I
experienced the opposite feeling with this book than I just did with my
previous read, The Steep and Thorny Way.
I considered Alsaid’s Let’s Get Lost one of my favorite books
and this one doesn’t even come close. Maybe
my expectations were too high, but either way I was disappointed. It started
out with a good premise, but quickly came extremely unrealistic and very
predictable. Two best friends, Dave and
Julia, who are mere weeks away from graduating high school set about completing
a list of tasks they said they would NEVER do. Although some are funny, some
just don’t make sense – building a tree house in the school yard large enough
for several teens to sit OVERNIGHT; organizing a scavenger hunt in just a few
hours with the ENTIRE school orchestra. The characters were one-dimensional and
it bothered me that while
the parts of book were written by only one character’s
view it was written in 3rd person. I believe I would have connected
with the characters more if written in first person.
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