Now patriciar

Was okay, but didn't enjoy the read. Frustrated me and all. Disliked the MC. Originally posted here.Let­ter to my Future SelfDear Patri­cia,it is Feb­ru­ary as I am writ­ing this let­ter to you, even though the review is sched­uled for April. You’ve had sev­eral issues with this book and to be fair and hon­est, you skipped sev­eral pages in the mid­dle of the book, because you couldn’t take it any­more. So fair warn­ing: These pages could have blown your mind, and you just don’t know it! So based on that, this here really is just. a. let­ter. to my future self.Jer­sey Angel was sup­posed to be a great and fresh read, but the main char­ac­ter, Angel, really annoyed you in a way that few to no Young Adult hero­ines have man­aged so far. Except for Zoey Red­bird, but duh. She is a very super­fi­cial char­ac­ter and even though you know quite a lot of girls just like her, and con­cluded that Angel might be a relat­able char­ac­ter for some read­ers, it was hard for you to read her story.Sev­eral review­ers said that they liked how Angel was very con­fi­dent about her sex­u­al­ity, with­out all the slut sham­ing. In the­ory you liked that. It’s why you requested the Gal­ley if I recall cor­rectly. A girl who is sex­u­ally con­fi­dent, but not so sure about love, and all in all sat­is­fied with her life; who does not have great plans of being a sur­geon one day but a recipent, and so on, sounded like a great story to read. The prob­lem, though, was that you really hated Angel, and for sev­eral rea­sons, two of them being:1. She treated her boyfriend like crap. In the end she learned a lit­tle, but..2. She slept with her best friend’s boyfriend. (And with some other guy, but that one was sin­gle, so that’s okay.)While some peo­ple might really enjoy this story and the way that Angel does not shy away from telling the reader that she likes it rough, while sev­eral read­ers might enjoy read­ing about her jour­ney and about an indipen­dent girl… you sim­ply thought that she was a bitch. Not because she had lots of sex, but because she dis­re­garded other people’s feel­ings. Next to that it didn’t feel like a real plot. Things hap­pened, but like our real lives it really was “just a sum­mer” if you know what I mean. There was no grande plot­line, which would have been okay, if not for the fol­low­ing reason: For a book to be read­able, it requires at least two of the fol­low­ing points: Good plot. Good char­ac­ters. Good writ­ing style.As you might have guessed already, you didn’t like the character(s). There was no real plot. And the writ­ing style wasn’t bad, but it cer­tainly did not blow your mind.All my best,Patri­ciaPS. One of her friends get preg­nant. You didn’t read all of that, but it might have been bril­liant. Ask some­one you trust and who has read the book if it was. Thanks.