The Loop by Jeremy Robert Johnson
My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I really really struggled to get through this book, and I really really wanted to like it. It started off pretty promisingly but fell apart pretty early on. Honestly, had I not been on the hook for a review, I would have given up on it around the 30% mark.
There was just too much going on - the outbreak/survival plot, the conspiracy/technology subplot, random romance asides, and racial/socioeconomic commentary. None of it was handled well and it all suffered. I think if they just focused on the first two, which were the saving grace and earned it the 2 stars, then it could have been a 3 or 4 star read.
Just pass on this one. It's not worth the time or effort to read. I think being attacked by one of the infected would have been less painful than getting throught this. I'm not even going to discuss the problems with having a white male being the author of a teenage, Latinx girl.
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My rating: 2 of 5 stars
I really really struggled to get through this book, and I really really wanted to like it. It started off pretty promisingly but fell apart pretty early on. Honestly, had I not been on the hook for a review, I would have given up on it around the 30% mark.
There was just too much going on - the outbreak/survival plot, the conspiracy/technology subplot, random romance asides, and racial/socioeconomic commentary. None of it was handled well and it all suffered. I think if they just focused on the first two, which were the saving grace and earned it the 2 stars, then it could have been a 3 or 4 star read.
Just pass on this one. It's not worth the time or effort to read. I think being attacked by one of the infected would have been less painful than getting throught this. I'm not even going to discuss the problems with having a white male being the author of a teenage, Latinx girl.
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