Amanda’s Reviews > Finding Laila > Status Update

Uhm, that prologue? I didn't really give a shit about the characters, but that's a crappy way to end a book (for more than one reason).

And jeez, her best friend dies and Laila is still only thinking about herself. "Because I am Laila Nixon and I’m going to be okay."

such a pointless epilogue (and book, if I'm honest).

As I continue stating more information and statistics about assisted suicide, I can tell that Joey is impressed with what I have come up with.

Sounds to me like she's mostly presenting statistics. Not sure if I count finding statistics is impressive in itself.

I’m not so stupid to believe I’m the only one who sees him as the sexy, brooding artist—everyone sees it.

And yet, I've seen no sign of this "brooding" of his. None. Zilch. I've been told he is brooding, but never been shown it.

My problems with this book: it doesn't feel genuine. Not at all. It doesn't feel authentic either. The characters are forced and it feels like they are "filling a quota" so to say. The writing is all telling, no showing. Hate the heroine. No major plot. I think that's it.

Yet another reason I love these guys: Braxton tells them something that has ruined friendships and families because people can’t handle it—but here are my guys…being themselves.

Good job not being bigoted assholes, really, quite an accomplishment.

Okay: about the last update. It's not that a character is gay that bothers me, it's that he's gay because otherwise he'd have no defining characteristic (if you can call a sexual orientation that). He's supposedly one of the main characters, but up until know the reader has only been told about him, and he's barely in the story, so now when he has to come out he's suddenly important again.

"I’m telling you that I’m gay.”

Yeah, this book is kinda pissing me off. Not because he's gay, but rather how it is dealt with in the book.

Could Laila be more of a spoiled brat? So her parents aren't her biological parents and she accuses them of, now that she's eighteen, kicking her to the curb? All they did was tell her the truth. I can see it's a heavy thing to learn, but she's acting as if they're her kidnappers or something.

Laila: get over yourself.

“You don’t just go around telling a girl what she does or doesn’t feel. You let her decide if she’s ready to say these things.”

Coming from the girl who told her friend he's gay, that he knows that, right?

While all the other girls around are clawing and beating each other to be noticed, you are happy to stay in the background away from the spotlight—unseen.

"All other girls"