Review: Love, Lex - Avery Aster

Love, Lex
Avery Aster
Series: The Undergrad Years, #1
Genre: Young Adult, More-like-adult-romance
Rating: -7 (0) out of 5 stars
Word Rating: Literally repulsive
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I received this book for the exchange of an honest review.

Unfortunately, I was unable to finish this book, because it was honestly just so awful. The writing is sad, the characters drive me nuts, the plot is all over the place.

The book begins with Alexandra Easton, or Lex, who is apparently so chubby that her boyfriend tells her she needs to lose weight before he dare have sex with her. lol. what. Okay, so this girl who is apparently going to Columbia in the fall and has movie star parents has a low enough self esteem to sit there and take this kind of emotional abuse. Alright, I guess. So then, when she's finally getting close to losing the weight necessary to lose her "Lady V" (virginity), she comes home, to find what? Her mom and boyfriend going at it. I guess after this her (whatever was left of her) self respect kicked in, and she decides to dump her boyfriend.

Now comes the real kicker. After she breaks up with her boyfriend, for no real reason, she decides to burn a dress and some pictures in the bathroom OF A NEW YORK CITY PENTHOUSE. Clearly little Miss Columbia isn't as smart as we thought. Anyway, I guess her mom had 02 tanks around her house to help with her youth and beauty or some equivalent bullshit, and boom, her house blows up, and Lex and her friends are arrested.

While she's getting arrested, by the way, she flirts with the cop.

Because after a few weeks of trying, I was unable to finish the book, I figured I'd skip to the last few chapters to find out if the book had a chance of getting any better. Hint: it didn't, it turned into some sick version of mommy porn that no one should ever have to be subjected to reading.

I'll tell you right now, don't read this book if you want your eyesight to work fully afterwards. The poor writing style combined with the way too out there plot and the most annoying characters on the planet manifests itself in this book, Love, Lex. Hopefully I am able to avoid all Avery Aster books in the process.

This book is marked DNF, for did not finish. (Note: This is the first book in over 6 years I have not finished).

I received this book for the exchange of an honest review.

- Amrutha

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Review: Broken - Elizabeth Pulford & Angus Gomes

Broken
Elizabeth Pulford, Illustrated by Angus Gomes
Series: N/A
Genre: Young Adult
Rating: -2 out of 5 stars
Word Rating: ?????????? SO CONFUSING ???????
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WHAT EVEN HAPPENED IN THIS BOOK??? I literally gave it a negative 2 for a rating. It was that bad. Do not, by any means, even if it is by accident, come within a ten foot proximity of this book. It'll drive you nuts.

The idea is rather unoriginal: Zara (our protagonist) gets into a motorcycle accident and is in a coma. The whole book is about how she travels across various planes and dimensions in order to find her brother Jem and find out stuff about herself and basically the book is about a girl dreaming when she's in a coma. Doesn't seem too bad right? Wrong.

These two authors try to make the book interesting by switching tenses every which way and point of views (Is she flashbacking? Is she in a comic book? Is she in a coma? Is she at her own vigil? Why is the font in italics at random places? THE WORLD MAY NEVER KNOW). This annoying, frantic switching of tenses and POVs makes the book extraordinarily difficult to follow. I almost gave up on reading this novel, and I hate giving up on a book, so that should speak volumes. I had to force myself to finish it, even though I'm not 100% sure what even went on throughout the book.

The book was so confusing already, but then Puford and Gomes chose to add in random comic book pictures - the concept seemed cool, but it really only added to the disjointed nature of the story. The changing of tenses and idea of the comic book adventures seems interesting, but it fell so short that I could not be impressed. These authors try to bring up complex ideas about death and identity to the reader through this uh unique telling of the story, but they only really manage to confuse the eff out of you.

0/10 would not recommend ever. Sorry not sorry :/

- Amrutha

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