Amanda’s Reviews > Play of Light > Status Update

This wasn't over the top like most NA are, but at the same time it was still more of the same. Abusive past, traumatic deaths, misunderstandings/miss communication, boy love girls and pushes her away, both love each other "from the moment they met", slutshaming, and blah, blah, blah. It just wasn't as ridiculously dramatic some other titles in the NA genre.

“I loved you too, Sarah. Probably from the first moment I saw you.”

Am I really the only person thinking these kinds of things aren't romantic? Not even in fantasies do I find this romantic. It's cheesy, and imo, kinda demeaning? Can't explain why in - *checks how many characters I have left* - 117 characters.

Not sure if I can call this a twist. It was, uhm, obvious? Was I supposed to not figure it out from page one? Have I read too many mysteries in my days? Given my limited days and the mysteries (in comparison), I have to say no.

Painfully obvious from first chapter.

Can't understand what this book wants to be. A book on grief? Characters and relationships aren't complex enough. A romance? The love interest is underdeveloped. Small town life? Not enough atmosphere. Something else? Can't tell.

I thought I couldn’t really love anyone until I saw Spencer again. Then I realized the problem wasn’t that I couldn’t love—it was that I couldn’t love anyone but him.

I think reading romance has made me cynical, because this isn't the least romantic imo.

“That’s right. They were like the Spencer Pierce fan club. I forgot about those skanks. Sorry, Sarah. No offense.”

And what exactly made Sarah better than them? She was crushing all the same on Spencer. If the difference is that she wasn't all over him all the time or she wasn't running after boys in general, then I'm calling bullshit.

When we were kids, Spencer came off as introverted but cocky.

Given that we have alternation timelines (we read about when they were kids) this shouldn't be included (or told). It should've been shown in the "before" POV. btw, I didn't get this impression of him; to be honest I barely got an impression of him at all.

“But she’s better than the skanky groupies he picks up when she’s not around.”

Of course the girls who are into the heroine's love interest are skanky groupies.

New Adult, step it up, you're still predictable.

“Also, she’s a bitch,”

Of course the girl who's into the heroine's love interest is a bitch?

New Adult, step it up, you're predictable.