Thursday, August 10, 2017

The Roanoke Girls - Amy Engel

It took me a long time to get into this book. Many of the reviews I saw before starting had a lot to say about the fast paced beginning and how quickly it drew you in, but that was not my experience with this book. For me, the beginning seemed to drag a little and, honestly, once the book did get going, I was not that impressed with it.

The premises of the book was intriguing and it was written in such a way that made you want to read to the end to figure out exactly what was going on, even though I had kind of figured out what the deal was about halfway through, but you still want to get the end to see if you're right, and, in my case, hoping you're wrong. 

But that's really the best thing I can say about this book. I mean, some of the characters were okay but I really didn't care for most of them and I found the protagonist, Lane, to be extremely annoying. Her little dilemma with her love interest was a big, meaningless mess that was aggravating to read about. It got to the point where it seemed like the last half of the book was just them having sex. This girl has to have sex with this guy because she likes him, then she has to have sex with him because she doesn't like him and she has to have sex with him to prove she doesn't like or care about. These adults have no self control and it almost made me want to stop reading the book altogether. However, the main plot line is intriguing, as well as disturbing and it does really get interesting and intense during the last few chapters.



I received this book from Blogging for Books for this review.

Author's Website: amyengel.net

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