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A review by emmareadstoomuch
Just One Year by Gayle Forman
2.0
THIS IS WHY WE CAN’T HAVE NICE THINGS.
Of couuuuuurse. Of course this would happen to me. I reread Just One Day, and I’m all confident and pleased because 2017-me loves a book that 2014-me loved. And I’m all, guess what else 2014-ish-me loved? The sequel. This is gonna be great.
Well, guess what, world? It wasn’t great. It was, in fact, garbage.
You’d think I’d expect this by now, but I am STUPID and I NEVER DO.
Ugh.
So this book takes place over the same span of time that the first one covers, except this book, instead of being empowering and interesting and filled with amazing character development, is boring and repetitive and lovey-dovey and actually contains the biggest character downgrade I have ever experienced in my young and bitter life.
Willem is mildly hot in the first book. He is mysterious and poetic and whatnot. He speaks a lot of languages and is tall and has great hair and creates metaphors for love using wrist-Nutella. What’s not to love? Or, more accurately, what’s not to feel neutral toward.
Willem is the narrator of this book, and he is the worst ever.
He is boring. He is obsessive in a way that has very little positive impact on himself. He mopes around and manipulates girls into loving him (ha ha, the reader is supposed to say! How stupid of that girl for not realizing he’s in love with another girl, who this one doesn’t know exists! Lol! It’s almost like he’s f*cking her and living in her home and all around making her think they’re in an exclusive relationship). He is very sh*tty to his friends. He travels around to a few places, but with none of the visceral descriptions the first book has.
What I am trying to say is it is all very bad.
And then the ending is sh*tty and inconclusive and has no payoff, which is why the ebook Just One Night had to exist. And the fact that this book made that glorified pamphlet of foot fetishizing have to come into creation is reason enough to one star it.
I don’t want to talk about this anymore.
Bottom line: Please pretend this book does not exist. It’s for your own good.
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pre-review
SOMEONE JUST MURDER ME. JUST KILL ME. WHATEVER HIGHER POWER MAY BE UP THERE, PLEASE TAKE ME NOW. PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY. END THIS SUFFERING. GRANT ME THE SWEET SWEET OBLIVION OF DEATH.
You guessed it!! Even though I adored the first book and it's one of my favorite YA books ever, this book was not good!!! Because there is no justice or fairness or joy or love in this world!!!
Review to come if I survive today!!!!!
Of couuuuuurse. Of course this would happen to me. I reread Just One Day, and I’m all confident and pleased because 2017-me loves a book that 2014-me loved. And I’m all, guess what else 2014-ish-me loved? The sequel. This is gonna be great.
Well, guess what, world? It wasn’t great. It was, in fact, garbage.
You’d think I’d expect this by now, but I am STUPID and I NEVER DO.
Ugh.
So this book takes place over the same span of time that the first one covers, except this book, instead of being empowering and interesting and filled with amazing character development, is boring and repetitive and lovey-dovey and actually contains the biggest character downgrade I have ever experienced in my young and bitter life.
Willem is mildly hot in the first book. He is mysterious and poetic and whatnot. He speaks a lot of languages and is tall and has great hair and creates metaphors for love using wrist-Nutella. What’s not to love? Or, more accurately, what’s not to feel neutral toward.
Willem is the narrator of this book, and he is the worst ever.
He is boring. He is obsessive in a way that has very little positive impact on himself. He mopes around and manipulates girls into loving him (ha ha, the reader is supposed to say! How stupid of that girl for not realizing he’s in love with another girl, who this one doesn’t know exists! Lol! It’s almost like he’s f*cking her and living in her home and all around making her think they’re in an exclusive relationship). He is very sh*tty to his friends. He travels around to a few places, but with none of the visceral descriptions the first book has.
What I am trying to say is it is all very bad.
And then the ending is sh*tty and inconclusive and has no payoff, which is why the ebook Just One Night had to exist. And the fact that this book made that glorified pamphlet of foot fetishizing have to come into creation is reason enough to one star it.
I don’t want to talk about this anymore.
Bottom line: Please pretend this book does not exist. It’s for your own good.
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pre-review
SOMEONE JUST MURDER ME. JUST KILL ME. WHATEVER HIGHER POWER MAY BE UP THERE, PLEASE TAKE ME NOW. PUT ME OUT OF MY MISERY. END THIS SUFFERING. GRANT ME THE SWEET SWEET OBLIVION OF DEATH.
You guessed it!! Even though I adored the first book and it's one of my favorite YA books ever, this book was not good!!! Because there is no justice or fairness or joy or love in this world!!!
Review to come if I survive today!!!!!