Book Title: Everything That Makes You
Author: Moriah McStay
Published Date: March 17th, 2015
Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books
Genre: YA Contemporary
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Book Link: Goodreads
Synopsis from Goodreads:
One girl. Two stories. Meet Fiona Doyle. The thick ridges of scar tissue on her face are from an accident twelve years ago. Fiona has notebooks full of songs she’s written about her frustrations, her dreams, and about her massive crush on beautiful uber-jock Trent McKinnon. If she can’t even find the courage to look Trent straight in his beautiful blue eyes, she sure isn’t brave enough to play or sing any of her songs in public. But something’s changing in Fiona. She can’t be defined by her scars anymore.
And what if there hadn’t been an accident? Meet Fi Doyle. Fi is the top-rated female high school lacrosse player in the state, heading straight to Northwestern on a full ride. She’s got more important things to deal with than her best friend Trent McKinnon, who’s been different ever since the kiss. When her luck goes south, even lacrosse can’t define her anymore. When you’ve always been the best at something, one dumb move can screw everything up. Can Fi fight back?
Hasn’t everyone wondered what if? In this daring debut novel, Moriah McStay gives us the rare opportunity to see what might have happened if things were different. Maybe luck determines our paths. But maybe it’s who we are that determines our luck.
Disclaimer: I received this eARC from Katherine Tegen Books via Edelweiss in exchange for my honest review.
Review:
I was really looking forward to this book. It was one of my most anticipated reads for the first six months of 2015. I was eagerly awaiting the perfect time to read this. I went into this book excited and hopeful that it would be everything I wanted it to be.
Unfortunately it wasn't. The pacing was weird. It was sort of jerky and I found myself totally uninterested in Fi Doyle's life. I thought she was a snit and I really couldn't stand her. Whereas Fiona was awesome. I really liked her and how she dealt with everything. Fiona was actually enjoyable and reading about her was fun too. Fi was such an irritating individual and more than once I wanted to scream. The pace was jerky because while I flew through the pages of Fiona's life, Fi's life bored the heck out of me and it would take me awhile to finish her chapters.
This book also lacked significant character development for the secondary characters, and after I had read the book halfway through, the secondary characters seemed to melt together. There was no distinctive voice for any of them and I grew to really not care about any of them. I think if there had been fewer characters, their character development could have definitely improved.
I love the idea of this story, it's actually one of my favorite types of stories. Unfortunately this one was poorly executed. I didn't get excited to pick this book up whenever I could. It felt more like pulling teeth to get me to pick this book up. Even reading Fiona's parts of the story couldn't really excite me.
The ending was very underwhelming and it made me wonder what the heck had I just read? That's really a crappy feeling to have after reading a book. No one wants to feel like that. I had that this book let me down so much, but I am going to give this book 2 stars.
And what if there hadn’t been an accident? Meet Fi Doyle. Fi is the top-rated female high school lacrosse player in the state, heading straight to Northwestern on a full ride. She’s got more important things to deal with than her best friend Trent McKinnon, who’s been different ever since the kiss. When her luck goes south, even lacrosse can’t define her anymore. When you’ve always been the best at something, one dumb move can screw everything up. Can Fi fight back?
Hasn’t everyone wondered what if? In this daring debut novel, Moriah McStay gives us the rare opportunity to see what might have happened if things were different. Maybe luck determines our paths. But maybe it’s who we are that determines our luck.
Disclaimer: I received this eARC from Katherine Tegen Books via Edelweiss in exchange for my honest review.
Review:
I was really looking forward to this book. It was one of my most anticipated reads for the first six months of 2015. I was eagerly awaiting the perfect time to read this. I went into this book excited and hopeful that it would be everything I wanted it to be.
Unfortunately it wasn't. The pacing was weird. It was sort of jerky and I found myself totally uninterested in Fi Doyle's life. I thought she was a snit and I really couldn't stand her. Whereas Fiona was awesome. I really liked her and how she dealt with everything. Fiona was actually enjoyable and reading about her was fun too. Fi was such an irritating individual and more than once I wanted to scream. The pace was jerky because while I flew through the pages of Fiona's life, Fi's life bored the heck out of me and it would take me awhile to finish her chapters.
This book also lacked significant character development for the secondary characters, and after I had read the book halfway through, the secondary characters seemed to melt together. There was no distinctive voice for any of them and I grew to really not care about any of them. I think if there had been fewer characters, their character development could have definitely improved.
I love the idea of this story, it's actually one of my favorite types of stories. Unfortunately this one was poorly executed. I didn't get excited to pick this book up whenever I could. It felt more like pulling teeth to get me to pick this book up. Even reading Fiona's parts of the story couldn't really excite me.
The ending was very underwhelming and it made me wonder what the heck had I just read? That's really a crappy feeling to have after reading a book. No one wants to feel like that. I had that this book let me down so much, but I am going to give this book 2 stars.
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