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If Only by Yvonne Beattie

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


I chose If Only by Yvonne Beattie only because of Title and description. If I had to go on the cover, this book wouldn't even have grabbed my attention. I love covers and my honest opinion, think this cover could've been done better then what it is currently at.
Now that I have that out of the way, the first 40 percent the book was okay.
If I had not chose to review it, I would've not finish this novel. It just did not grab my attention at all, or hold it in order to turn the pages. The first 40 percent of a novel is so important. Around the 50 percent mark I actually got drawn into the book. The characters, Marty, Rachel, Bex, Si and Joel all started to became more real. I still feel that it should be something that needed to be present from the first page.
If I had to built my review on only the first 50 percent, I would've given in a one star rating, but I give it a three and a half star because of how really invested I got around the 70 percent mark.
I wish so badly that this book could have been a 100 percent all the way. The characters was there, they were just not that interesting for me in the beginning. The plot was slightly weak but it did get little stronger during the end.
So the beginning and middle didn't really do it for me, but the last 40 percent or so, well done Yvonne. I really rooted for Rachel and Marty. I just struggled to get there.



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