Tuesday, September 12, 2017

First two novels were SOOO much better...

Crazy Messy Beautiful

Crazy Messy Beautiful

By: Carrie Arcos

Genre: YA Realistic Fiction

Pages: 312

Published: 2017

Read:  September

2.75 out of 5


2.75 stars


If I wasn't an adult and I was able to avoid comparing this story to Arcos’ other novels, I may have starred it higher. But I am an adult and I loved her other books. Although there is feeling in this one; it is also just a simple teenage love story that ends happily ever after. I missed the raw emotion and heart-wrenching sadness of There will Come a Time and Out of Reach. I tend to deviate from authors that get in a rut and therefore the books all start to sound alike. Arcos may be attempting to not have this happen and tried a different angle. However, I feel she went too sappy for her writing style and lost the raw feeling. Her characters came off as pathetic instead of sympathetic. 

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