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Hold
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2.5 stars
I had high expectations as this book opened to the scene of Luke returning to school after his sister’s death. He didn’t tell his friends he was returning to school, but the bullies are there waiting to torment Luke about everything from the color of his skin to his sexuality. In an extreme moment of frustration, Luke discovers he can stop time. The time stopping aspect was the main draw for me here with this book, but it was not developed and the overall story was not at all engaging to me. I couldn’t find one area of this story that opened up for me to get into it and at any moment I could have closed it and walked away.
After the initial shock of Luke realizing that he can stop time, he tells his friends and they test him to prove it. It’s during one of these tests that Luke stumbles over something that he wasn’t supposed to see. This is then not developed further until it becomes the pinnacle focus at the end of the book.
There was a lot added into this story, but nothing was developed. Eddie and Luke work on a drama project together and there were endless pages of them going over the same monologue. Luke becomes attracted to Eddie, but the journey of that storyline wasn’t handled well for me either. There were also many pages of characters discussing a movie they went to see and there was not much to hold my attention. Luke has always been attracted to his friend Marcos and then that story is worked in. However, Marcos wasn’t a prominent on page character until, again, toward the end, where his sexuality then became a focal point, but there was no true exploration of his character.
Read Michelle's review in its entirety here.
2.5 stars
I had high expectations as this book opened to the scene of Luke returning to school after his sister’s death. He didn’t tell his friends he was returning to school, but the bullies are there waiting to torment Luke about everything from the color of his skin to his sexuality. In an extreme moment of frustration, Luke discovers he can stop time. The time stopping aspect was the main draw for me here with this book, but it was not developed and the overall story was not at all engaging to me. I couldn’t find one area of this story that opened up for me to get into it and at any moment I could have closed it and walked away.
After the initial shock of Luke realizing that he can stop time, he tells his friends and they test him to prove it. It’s during one of these tests that Luke stumbles over something that he wasn’t supposed to see. This is then not developed further until it becomes the pinnacle focus at the end of the book.
There was a lot added into this story, but nothing was developed. Eddie and Luke work on a drama project together and there were endless pages of them going over the same monologue. Luke becomes attracted to Eddie, but the journey of that storyline wasn’t handled well for me either. There were also many pages of characters discussing a movie they went to see and there was not much to hold my attention. Luke has always been attracted to his friend Marcos and then that story is worked in. However, Marcos wasn’t a prominent on page character until, again, toward the end, where his sexuality then became a focal point, but there was no true exploration of his character.
Read Michelle's review in its entirety here.
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