Critique | The Elite by Kiera Cass

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Dates Read: July 14th, 2015 – July 17th, 2015

**Spoiler Alert**

Source: Goodreads

Hold on to your tiaras ladies because we’re down to the final six!

I think it’s safe to say that this book has made me despise love triangles. I may have to go get checked for whiplash from all the back and forth America’s been doing here. On one page she’ll be all gung ho for one guy, and the next she’s crying (about every other page) and leaning drastically toward the other.

The thing that kills me about this book is America’s utter lack of faith in Maxon. The smallest things send her crying into the arms of poor Aspen. I don’t think she understands that the Selection effects both her and Maxon. Should she decide not to marry him, he needs to find someone else. Maxon isn’t going to become a monk just because she said no. So she finds him all cuddled up with other girls and totally loses it. Naturally, her reaction is run to Aspen and promise him a future together. Until Maxon knocks on her door, or smiles at her and then it’s all about him again. This happens multiple times in the book and NOT ONCE DOES SHE LET MAXON EXPLAIN. He tries to and she’s all like, “Nope. I’m out. Peace.”

Critique | Imperfect Love by Isabella White

**I received a copy of the book from Fire Quill Publishing via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review**

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DNF @ 16%

I feel like a jerk because I reveived a review copy of this book and I couldn’t even make it a quarter of the way through it. However, this book needs a little more work before it’s totally readable for me. I knew that the more I read, the more frustrated I’d get.

I had high hopes because the description sounded good and it has a 4.01 average rating on Goodreads and Amazon.

However, I started reading and the writing style was too distracting for me. It felt repeatitive with descriptions of what people were doing, as well as excessive with things I didn’t need to know about. There wasn’t much flow to it and dialogue was disjointed. For example, on their way to the hospital in chapter five, Holly and Jake are having a conversation about Sonic and Jake’s lack of girlfriend, when all of a sudden he goes, “Ok Medusa.” Where did that even come from??? There was also the idea that Holly was religious thrown in there, but didn’t seem to stick. It was mentioned at the end of a chapter that she needed to start going back to church and missed it, but wasn’t touched upon again (at least not in the chapters that I read).

After all that, I don’t feel any connection to either one of the main characters; Holly reads too childish for me, despite her being my age, and Jake just feels awkward. He makes odd remarks that throw me off (such as the medusa thing) and I just don’t get that “hot, sexy” guy vibe from him. There was no chemistry between two as of yet, despite the fact that I sensed an insta-love trope lurking about.

My recommendation is to skip this one, folks. I just wasn’t feeling it.