ARC Review: 10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall
10 Things That Never Happened by Alexis Hall
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
3 stars
I'm as surprised as you are that I didn't completely hate this book after the last several tries with AJH. I'd even go as far to say I quite enjoyed it. Sure it had the very annoying thing where -y is added to the end of words to be cutesy (see what I did there) and it is written in what I assume is a northern accent so if i never see a sentence end in "like" again it'll be too soon. But the amensia plot was kind of fun, I liked the two MCs, and the meddling family and meddling coworkers were rather enjoyable. What's keeping it three stars is the rather predictable 95% breakup, the 97% Christmas Death (ugh we were so close to a mostly death free Christmas! But no here they are kissing in a cemetery wtf), and the aforementioned annoyingly accenty (lol) narrative. It helped a lot that the POV character, Sam, wasn't completely full of anxiety or self-loathing, I think. It kept the hijinks and comedy closer to Boyfriend Material than anything contemporary AJH has written after. It's worth a read if you liked Boyfriend Material and are still willing to give AJH's books a try. (But watch me totally regret saying this when Father Material comes out).
I received an ARC copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.
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My rating: 3 of 5 stars
3 stars
I'm as surprised as you are that I didn't completely hate this book after the last several tries with AJH. I'd even go as far to say I quite enjoyed it. Sure it had the very annoying thing where -y is added to the end of words to be cutesy (see what I did there) and it is written in what I assume is a northern accent so if i never see a sentence end in "like" again it'll be too soon. But the amensia plot was kind of fun, I liked the two MCs, and the meddling family and meddling coworkers were rather enjoyable. What's keeping it three stars is the rather predictable 95% breakup, the 97% Christmas Death (ugh we were so close to a mostly death free Christmas! But no here they are kissing in a cemetery wtf), and the aforementioned annoyingly accenty (lol) narrative. It helped a lot that the POV character, Sam, wasn't completely full of anxiety or self-loathing, I think. It kept the hijinks and comedy closer to Boyfriend Material than anything contemporary AJH has written after. It's worth a read if you liked Boyfriend Material and are still willing to give AJH's books a try. (But watch me totally regret saying this when Father Material comes out).
I received an ARC copy of this book from Netgalley in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own.
View all my reviews
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