IT SOUNDED BETTER IN MY HEAD

 By: Nina Kenwood

Genre: Y/A Contemporary Fiction

Year: 2020

Rate: 2 stars. 🌟🌟

“When her parents announce their impending divorce, Natalie can’t understand why no one
is fighting, or at least mildly upset. Then Zach and Lucy, her two best friends, hook up, leaving her feeling slightly miffed and decidedly awkward. She’d always imagined she would end up with Zach one day―in the version of her life that played out like a TV show, with just the right amount of banter, pining, and meaningful looks. Now everything has changed, and nothing is quite making sense. Until an unexpected romance comes along and shakes things up even further.”

 

It took me a while to understand how I feel about this book, and the best way I have to explain it is like a bouncing castle, all fun and emotion at first but then the bouncing castle starts losing air and then the excitement is gone.

The beginning of the book is great, I got lots of expectations about this girl that overthinks everything and creates multiples scenarios in her head just to be prepared, who had acne’s problems in the past that let her scarred physically and mentally, also she has to endure the separation of her parents, the idea of being the third wheel around her best friends and the new feelings for this guy. So yes, I was super excited!

But then everything was going in another direction; the writing and the narrative are fantastic, however, even when is good for the reader to be in the MC’s head, it took five pages or more of thinking between on line of dialogue and other, so much that in some point I needed to ask, wait, what was the conversation about?

The parents were terrible, something common in a Y/A story but these parents never made the effort to improve the situation, so there was this loose end in the story.

I loved that the protagonist confronted her friends and her parents, but she honestly never grew up enough. She was insecure all the time and she never talked about it with anybody. Also, I liked that she asked questions, but sometimes it was more like an interrogation by an FBI agent than by a girl with needs for answers.

Finally, there are some topics that I wasn’t comfortable with how they were handled, too easily too ‘whatever’ and I don’t think life is like that.

I usually post reviews of books with high rates in my blog, but I decided to post this one too, because honestly the concept of the story is great it’s the execution that didn’t reach my expectation.

 

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