Title: The Unlikelies
Author: Carrie Firestone
Series: Standalone
Publication: June 6th 2017 by Little, Brown and Company
Pages: 336
Source: Publisher in exchange for a honest review
Summary from Goodreads:
Five teens embark on a summer of vigilante good samaritanism in a novel that’s part The Breakfast Club, part The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks, and utterly captivating.
Rising high school senior Sadie is bracing herself for a long, lonely, and boring summer. But things take an unexpected turn when she steps in to help rescue a baby in distress and a video of her good deed goes viral.
Suddenly internet-famous, Sadie’s summer changes for the better when she’s introduced to other “hometown heroes.” These five very different teens form an unlikely alliance to secretly right local wrongs, but when they try to help a heroin-using friend, they get in over their heads and discover that there might be truth in the saying “no good deed goes unpunished.” Can Sadie and her new friends make it through the summer with their friendships–and anonymity–intact?
This rich and thought-provoking novel takes on timely issues and timeless experiences with a winning combination of romance, humor, and wisdom.
Thoughts:
I’m just going to come right out and say it – I couldn’t finish this book. The sad thing is, it wasn’t the plot – not really. The characters were fine, the plot unrealistic but manageable, and the relationships and the character development were actually surprisingly good. What got me, however, was the writing. The writing wasn’t even bad, it was the structure of it. I could not get myself through the short scene to scene type writing. It was one short section, time skip, short section, time skip, short section, etc. There was hardly enough of the writing to grab hold to anything of importance. I couldn’t swallow it. I couldn’t read it. I found myself losing interest with every page as I glimpsed the small snippets of actual story awaiting me on each page. This review isn’t much of a review for one reason alone – I’ve really got nothing to review.
You might like it, go ahead and try it. The Unlikelies, in my personal taste, was simply not written in a mode that was engaging and, therefore, suffered. Oops.
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