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Title: even more tepid than the movie
Review: I picked this up on vacation as my cousin was reading it, hoping to find a new YA author. Apparently, this was made into a movie called "How to Deal" with Mandy Moore, a movie I turned off about fifteen minutes into it. I hoped the book would be better. I was wrong.The plot was cookie cutter. The writing was tepid with nothing distinctive about it. The characters were annoying and unsympathetic. Even worse, I started wishing for even more bad things to happen to them. I put it down about fifty pages into it.Yes, I'm an adult, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying well written YA novels. The key is "well written." It takes a colossally bad book to get me to ditch it halfway through, and this one was that.
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