Be Good Be Real Be Crazy by Chelsey Philpot
*NO SPOILERS*
“For fans of Mosquitoland
and Paper Towns” (Goodreads). That is
a bunch of lies! Mosquitoland is one
of my all-time favorite books and this one was nothing like it. I honestly
don’t know how I even finished this book, it was slow in the beginning but I
thought it would pick up. I was wrong, I managed to push through to the end,
but I was completely bored the whole time. The story itself was supposed to be
of a road trip from Florida to somewhere way up north, but there weren’t any
adventures. I picked up this book mainly because it was a road trip book. In
these types of books, you expect there to be spontaneous stops and awesome
adventures, I didn’t get any of that in this book. I wanted a whole lot more
from this book. The originality in this book is nonexistent, but I picked it up
because I thought it would be like other road trip books I’ve read. This book
was also super predictable and made me not want to read it, because I already
knew what would happen. This book didn’t make me feel anything but boredom and
the characters were flat. They weren’t relatable at all, and seemed to only
have one personality trait. Out of all my TBR this one I was the most excited
about, and it let me down. Not only was the story uninteresting, the writing
style wasn’t for me. The only thing I liked about this book was this one quote:
“Human beings are like planets. We have individual orbits that overlap in
places, but whether or not we meet at the overlaps is all about timing and
chance. But that possibility is enough to keep us spinning in circles.” I was
really hoping this would be a light, fun beach read and I would love it, but it
wasn’t and I didn’t like it at all. Now, after saying all this doesn’t mean I don’t
acknowledge all of the author's time and love that went into this book. Just
because I didn’t like it doesn’t undermine the author’s writing ability. I’m
sure she is very proud of it, and she should be, it just wasn’t for me. I won’t
do a spoiler section because it would just be me complaining about everything.
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