Harry Potter and The Cursed Child by J.K. Rowling

Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, a new play by Jack Thorne, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is the eighth story in the Harry Potter series and the first official Harry Potter story to be presented on stage. The play will receive its world premiere in London’s West End on July 30, 2016.

It was always difficult being Harry Potter and it isn’t much easier now that he is an overworked employee of the Ministry of Magic, a husband and father of three school-age children.

While Harry grapples with a past that refuses to stay where it belongs, his youngest son Albus must struggle with the weight of a family legacy he never wanted. As past and present fuse ominously, both father and son learn the uncomfortable truth: sometimes, darkness comes from unexpected places.

Rating: 3/5 stars


How do I even start this review?

I mean, really, after reading dozens of wonderful reviews, way more articulate and heartfelt than I could ever manage, trying to get my thoughts out there sems kind of pointless.

But hey, I like sharing what I think of books, and Harry Potter and the Cursed Child is no exception, particularly since I had many conflicting opinions on it.

To be fair, when news came out of the eight book in the HP universe, I was unsure of how to feel. Let's face it, this book can be either REALLY good, or REALLY bad as it always happens with new stories being added to an already finished saga.
 At least, that's what I felt before reading it, and now that I'm done I can say that for me (and this is my opinion and nothing else) the book was decent, but it wasn't innovative or necessary. Many fans, myself included, have always wondered how the Wizzarding world carried on after the final battle. We got to see a glimpse of it in the last book with the gang all grown up and taking their kids to the train station, but nothing else.

I personally wanted to see more, but that didn't happen here. The story is written in play format which, even though it didn't bother me, it wasn't helpful in showing a meaningful story.
Several events were glossed over, there were huge time jumps that, although understandble since it was a play, it showed that we were missing a great deal of important information. The family dramas, the friendships, the problems... they were all set aside once introduced and discarted to pursue other topics. It left the story looking awkward and sloppy.

The characters were also quite OCC, particularly Harry. Hermione we didn't see much of and Ron seemed to have been relegated to a comic relief-sort of character with no other layer.

However, if there was something I absolutely loved, and I mean LOVED was Scorpius. My precious cinammon roll, he was everything and I love him. His relationship with Albus Potter was quite interesting too, and another aspect of the story that should have been explored more.

The build-up and revelation of the bad guy was, surprisingly, my least favorite thing in the play. It was so predictable!! Aaaand dumb, I swear I laughed when the revelation came.

In the end, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child was not rage-inducing, but it wasn't a good continuation for the series either IN MY OPINION. The plot was messy, the characters odd and... honestly? I have read hundreds of fanfictions that have done a much better work with this world and the characters than this play.

A Thousand Pieces Of You by Claudia Gray

Cloud Atlas meets Orphan Black in this epic dimension-bending trilogy by New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray about a girl who must chase her father's killer through multiple dimensions.

Marguerite Caine's physicist parents are known for their groundbreaking achievements. Their most astonishing invention, called the Firebird, allows users to jump into multiple universes—and promises to revolutionize science forever. But then Marguerite's father is murdered, and the killer—her parent's handsome, enigmatic assistant Paul— escapes into another dimension before the law can touch him.

Marguerite refuses to let the man who destroyed her family go free. So she races after Paul through different universes, always leaping into another version of herself. But she also meets alternate versions of the people she knows—including Paul, whose life entangles with hers in increasingly familiar ways. Before long she begins to question Paul's guilt—as well as her own heart. And soon she discovers the truth behind her father's death is far more sinister than she expected.

A Thousand Pieces of You explores an amazingly intricate multi-universe where fate is unavoidable, the truth elusive, and love the greatest mystery of all.


Rating: 1,5/5 Stars

"How could I have been such a fool? How could I have questioned for one second that Paul was dangerous? He killed my father and I still wanted to give him the benefit of the doubt.
Stupid, stupid, stupid. I'm never going to let a guy make me this stupid ever again."

I swear, this could have been the funniest thing I read if it weren't so fucking sad.

I feel the need to clarify, I was actually having a lot of fun with this until Russia happened, at which point I lost all respect and joy I had for this book. However, I’ve read several reviews and so far, nobody’s pointed out my big issue as their problem, soit might be just me. If you were planning on reading this book, by all means don’t let this rabid rant stop you.

Because MY GOD will I fucking rant.

Now, I know that a lot of people had problems with the romance in the story. I mean, after all the synopsis promises us “Orphan Black meets Cloud Atlas” as a girl travels through dimensions to avenge her father’s death (I’m still waiting for my Orphan Black, BTW). But do we get awesome dimensions? Do we get action and revenge???! Nope, but we do get a lot bunch of romantic angst, and I mean A GOOD FUCKING BUNCH of romantic angst in the form of a love pentagon and annoying characters making dumb decisions.
However, I had read reviews complaining about that so I was prepared for it, knowing this beforehand really helped me because I wasn’t disappointed or anything.

The story was kind of silly, but it was right around what I was expecting.

The basic premise is this; Marguerite’s parents are geniuses who invented the Firebird, a device that allows for a person (just their conscious) to travel in between dimensions. But just when they had finally succeeded one of her parents assistants, Paul, steals the Firebird, deletes all the data and kills Marguerite’s dad. So now Marguerite and her parent’s other student, Theo, will use the remaining prototypes to follow Paul and… well, get plain old revenge.

The concept was VERY promising, but like I said you’ll be happier if you expect less revenge and more “dumb-ass heroine who confuses her hormones with actual facts”.

As a main character, Marguerite left a lot to be desired. That being said, God, I really fucking hated her. There’s no other way to say it, really. I can’t think of one nice thing to say about her, but I CAN think of a thousand shits to complain about, so let’s start with that.

Marguerite was dumb, mind-numbing, makes-you-want-to-bash-your-head-against-a-wall-until-you-die, dumb. Even during the first chapters when I liked where the story was heading, I had trouble connecting with her. She’s rash, she’s dumb (I’m never going to stop saying that, so you better get used to it), she’s whinny.
She’s your typical YA heroine who is praised as “different” and “especial” when in reality she’s just your average selfish asshole who can’t stop going “Boohooo me!”.



You see, Marguerite is not like her parents, she is not a scientist, she’s an artist. So of course that just makes her absolutely stupid and ugly (don’t ask me how). Hardly a chapter went by without Marguerite comparing herself to her family both in intellect and in appearance (having curly hair instantly makes you hideous, FYI).

It was annoying, her constantly putting herself down so readers would feel sympathy for her while having all the characters (especially the guys, the only other females in the story were related to Marguerite) shower praises all over her.


And then, there's her being dumb (just like she wouldn't shut up about her being ugly or artsy, I won't shut up about her being a FREAKING IDIOT!!!).
Look, right from the beginning we knew that Paul wasn't really guilty; it was obvious. If you present a plot like that and then say in the very summarythat Marguerite starts doubing his guilt... you know for sure something else was up. The fun thing would be to find out what. Was he being framed? Was it an accident and things got out of hands? Was it foulplay??

Dunno! But it was something else to look forward to. However, we knew it was going to be difficult (whatever it was) because all evidence pointed towards Paul, so it's not like Marguerite would believe him out of the blue, RIGHT?!

"Tha astonishment and pain I see are very real. Some people are good enough actors to feign shoc, but shy, uncertain Paul Markov has never had that kind of game.There's no way he could fake this kind of horror, or the tears I can see welling in his eyes."

Paul:

 

I mean, SERIOUSLY??! And then,

"It hits me then, a blow more stupefying than sharp: Paul didn't kill my father."

Let's clarify something, when they discovered that her father had died and all evidences pointed towards Paul nobody cool believe it because he was the sweetest guy ever. But the evidence was irrefutable (even though we never saw it but whatever), so Marguerite was CONVINCED that Paul was some kind of evil mastermind, a psychopath and a monster that played them all for fools, that gained their trust and love in a whole year, all the while he was planning to doing something so awful. In her mind, Paul was a master manipulator and liar... BUT he seems kind of surprised when she sees him, so he OBVIOUSLY couldn't be the bad guy?!



IT WAS MORONIC and a cheap way to solve the main conflict way too easily. How to make Paul and Marguerite team up? Make Marguerite a BLOODY IDIOT who can think only with her hormones, and have her believe evil masterminds because they look/sound kind of honest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111!!!!!


The world building was, honestly, a bit disappointing. You have the chance to create infinite parallel worlds and all you come up are like, four? And none of them is very much explained since the action is always focused on the romance.

Speaking off, the romance was unbearable. Again, what happened in Russia was related to that and it was TERRIBLE, so bad it ruined the book for me. But the rest before hadn’t been much better, Marguerite’s dad just died and all she can think about is Theo being hot, or Paul who betrayed them all (but it’s still hot).


To sum up, A Thousand Pieces Of You was a romance with a love triangle (quasi pentagon), an insufferable heroine who was dumb as f*ck… and some dimensions here and there

Pokemon Indigo League #ReadThemAllThon TBR

Disclaimer: I clearly don’t own Pokemon or else this blog would be much nicer and I’d run a lot of giveaways with my extra money. Plus… I’d kind of be rich.

So the other day I was stalking checking out my friend Joyce’s wonderful blog Completely Booked and came across the Pokemon Indigo League #ReadThemAll readathon created by Read At Midnight, that will start on August the 14^th and will last three weeks. The goal is to encourage people to read all kinds of book while also playing and “competing for points based on the game Pokemon Go.

Even though the game hasn’t come to my country and HENCE I have absolutely no idea of how it works, I absolutely loved this challenge! You just have to check out the tasks and you’ll see why. There are so many different books to read for this! 

You can check the original post here.

Now, my chosen Pokemon will be Zubat purely because it always looks pissed, so I guess we are soulmates *sheds a single tear*

                                              

Now onto the tasks!!!!

                                                      

For this challenge I want to Read Snow Like Ashes, because it’s a book I’ve been curious about ever since it came out and yet… I never read it! Why? I don’t know, I always get distracted with other books.

                                                           

AAAAAWWWWWW GAAAAWWWDDD WHYYYY??!!!! As soon as I saw this one, I knew that the book I’d have to read for it was Dreams of Gods and Monsters. After all, every time I talk about it I mention how I don’t want to read it because it’ll rip my heart out, but I guess it’s long overdue… damn series that come to an end!!!!

                                                      

This one was a tough one to choose because there were several “hyped” books I wanted to try, but in the end I settled for Passenger since I’ve had it for a while now and never read it :O

                                                         

There were so many books to read for this one!!! AHHHH how to settle on just one?? But of course, I had to, so in the end I chose Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe, because it’s another book I’ve wanted to read for a good while and didn’t… for some reason I still don’t understand.

                                                 

But... how do I even know the romance will be epic before I read it?? Damn it! This one was a though one for me, but finally I settled with Uprooted because it's one book that I've been told a few times it has a great couple!

                                                  

For fantasy I had a lot of books I wanted to read (let’s face it, there are a lot of stories out there I still haven’t tried and who knows how many I’ll get to read???) but after spending several minutes going back and forth, back and forth, I settled on The Girl At Midnight because it looks pretty cool and it's compared with Daughter of Smoke and Bone!

                                                    

Red covers are hard to find! Especially ones I haven’t already read… but for this challenge I decided to go with Illuminae. This was a book I tried a couple of months back but couldn’t get into the format. This time I’m determined to get to the end! Damn it!

                                                  

Ok, to get the Earth Badge I had to do a lot of digging because Post-Apocalyptic it’s not a genre I’ve been dabbing into lately, but thanks to Goodreads lists I chose The Immortal Rules. Sure, it has some vampires on it, but Goodreads says it’s post-apocalyptic so I’m gonna trust it… for now.

And that's it! Will you also be playing? What are you guys planning to read?

July Wrap-Up

Anddddd July is over!!! Phew! I gotta say, this month proved to be one of the longest and shortest months of the year. How does that make sense you might wonder? It doesn’t but whatever, just play along with me.

On my July TBR post, I’d said I wanted to read three books for last month and I’m pleasantly surprised to say that, not only did I read them all but I also read SEVEN more books plus a few novellas!

Like, what??? Since when do I read so many books? I’m too slow and busy complaining about college to read so much! But somehow I did, and I’m kinda proud of myself.

But enough about bragging! Here are the books/novellas I read on July in no particular order:

1.The Winner’s Kiss:

Ahhh yes, the much awaited ending to the Winner’s trilogy! I’ll admit I had been avoiding this book because… well, series ending can be the best and worst feeling in the world, plus I had had a few issues with the previews book, The Winner’s Crime. But I really enjoyed the last installment! Although it wasn’t as “epic” as I like my finales to be, it was still good.

2.Breakfast at Tiffany’s:

I’m not entirely sure what drove me to read this… I have already seen the movie, but one day, out of the blue, I remembered and thought “hey, did I ever read the book it was based on??” and then proceeded to find it and read it. It was ok, but I’ll admit the story and narration still was too weird sometimes for me. I did like Holly though, she was terribly flawed and complex and made the weird style absolutely worth it!

3.An Ember in The Ashes:

 

This was a book that I was afraid to pick up because it was so hyped. Whenever a book comes out that everybody loves I’m secretly afraid to read because WHAT IF I’M THE BLACK SHEEP THAT WON’T LIKE IT?! But it was time I read it, and I did it with my friend Charysse! I liked the cool fantasy elements (even though they were kind of ignored and in the background) but the romance I could have been without. Really, I still can’t think of a single reason on why the romance was so relevant to the story or why the heck it came out of nowhere, it just made some parts VERY annoying.

4.This Savage Song:

This was my first book by Victoria Schwab, and was pretty cool! I liked the writing style and the characters. Also, the fact that there’s no romance but still managed to keep entertained with the story and the relationship growing between the two MC’s!

5. The Adoration of Jenna Fox:

 

THIS DAMN BOOK! I’ve been looking for it for… five years maybe? And this July I finally managed to read it! I really enjoyed it (read it in two days) and it’s made me curious about the author’s other books. Now I know that she’s the author of The Kiss of Deception, a book I myself DNFed because the romance and tropes were overwhelming… but I’m thinking of giving it another shot!

6.Bone Gap:

Ehh… weird-ass book alert. I can’t really find other word to describe this book other than “weird”, I just can’t! I was terribly confused up until 70% of the reading, which says a lot, but once some stuff were being explained I began to understand and enjoy the story. It’s definitely the kind of book I’ll have more fun with the second time around.

7.The Program:

This book… wasn’t so great for me. I didn’t like how it used mental illness as a plot device and then made it horribly inaccurate. What could have been a great book to raise awareness, ended up being a clichéd narrative that perpetuates harmful stereotypes.

8.Nerve:

I started reading Nerve because the movie is coming out on August, sadly I wasn’t a fan of it, so far the trailer for the movie looks SO much better.

9.Nobody’s Goddess:

Another Buddy Read with Charysse! This one was quite strange for me, because it had many elements I LOVE, but the main character was so frustrating it made the reading a toll. The world-building could have been explained a bit more, too.

10.Firefight:

David and his crappy metaphors are what made this book for me! Unfortunately, his obsession with Megan kind of killed it for me. I wish I’d gotten to see more of the character and not the “love interest”.

11.Lips Touch: Three Times:

I read it for the BooktubeAThon, but I was a bit underwhelmed by it. The stories were creative and cool, I just wasn’t filling it. Some things seemed too forced and nonsensical, not what I expected from Laini Taylor.

12. The Selection novellas:

I read 3; The Guard, The Queen and The Favorite. They were ok (except for “The Queen” I found the relationship there too creepy and disturbing).

And those are all! Hopefully August will bring more great books to read with it! What did you read this July?

The Assassin Game by Kirsty McKay

Who will be left after lights out?

At Cate's isolated boarding school, Killer is more than a game- it's an elite secret society. Members must avoid being "Killed" during a series of thrilling pranks, and only the Game Master knows who the "Killer" is. When Cate's finally invited to join the Assassins' Guild, she know it's her ticket to finally feeling like she belongs.

But when the game becomes all too real, the school threatens to shut it down. Cate will do anything to keep playing and save the Guild. But can she find the real assassin before she's the next target? 



Rating: 2/5 stars

I was provided with a copy via Netgalley and thanks to the publisher Sourcebooks Fire, in exchange for an honest review.

I want you to do me a favor and look at the cover and description for The Assassin Game.

Go go, I’ll wait right here.

Are you back? What did you think? Because when I first came across this book, I thought it looked wonderfully creepy. I mean, just the cover alone with the girl, the mask and the forest behind was FREAKING CREEPY. Add to that the synopsis that promises a game in a private school turned deadly and you have a wonderful book!

Or so it should be, at least that’s what I was expecting but despite the concept behind The Assassin Game being compelling, the story wasn’t all that great.

My issue here was that the narration itself was silly, and so was the plot. I was expecting MURDER! FEAR! SUSPENSE! MURDER! BETRAYALS! MURDER! ANXIETY! MURDER!!!!!!!!!!!! And none of that was on the book.

This is an Elite game played at a Welch private institute, where players have to avoid being killed (which are actually just pranks) and discover who the killer is in order to win. The only way to play is if you’re invited, and this year it’s finally Cate’s chance to belong. 

But of course, shit had to go down.

Kind of… at least that was the idea. This was one of my issues with the story, I was expecting something horrible to happen, but up until the end the story remained rather silly and not much went on until the very end with the revelation of the “Killer” which was rather predictable too. Sometimes the pace could get too dull, and it took me over a month to get through it (and I'll admit that the reason I finished it today was because the Netgalley archive will expire tomorrow).

As for the characters, I couldn’t connect with any. Cate’s narration was emotionless, and even the strange love triangle didn’t help *shrugs*

In the end, The Assassin Game promised a lot, but it didn’t fully lived up to my expectations. It was a good story, but not creepy or scary at all.

The Winner's Kiss by Marie Rutkoski

Some kisses come at a price.

War has begun. Arin is in the thick of it with untrustworthy new allies and the empire as his enemy. Though he has convinced himself that he no longer loves Kestrel, Arin hasn’t forgotten her, or how she became exactly the kind of person he has always despised. She cared more for the empire than she did for the lives of innocent people—and certainly more than she did for him.

At least, that’s what he thinks.

In the frozen north, Kestrel is a prisoner in a brutal work camp. As she searches desperately for a way to escape, she wishes Arin could know what she sacrificed for him. She wishes she could make the empire pay for what they’ve done to her.

But no one gets what they want just by wishing.

As the war intensifies, both Kestrel and Arin discover that the world is changing. The East is pitted against the West, and they are caught in between. With so much to lose, can anybody really win?

Rating: 4/5 Stars


And another series that comes to an end...



I know this review is kind of late because everybody has already read this book, but I’m always afraid of finishing series, so I try to push the last book away and away until I can’t resist anymore.

The Winner’s Kiss was an action-packed and fast paced book that lead readers into a heart-stopping finale. Although I did find it underwhelming in certain aspects, I still enjoyed it very much.

I don’t know what it is about this series, but I feel like it hit its peak in the first book and then slowly went down. I enjoyed The Winner’s Curse (just ask anybody I talked to when I finished it, I pretty much shoved it into everyone’s face saying they HAD to read it), but was quite disappointed with The Winner’s Crime; the second book felt like a filler, an in-between for the last book to come. The story basically consisted of Arin and Kestrel making assumptions about each other, but never talking about what was really happening because of “reasons”. 
Miscommunication as a plot device to create drama is not one of my favorite routes for a story, specially one that’s hard-core romance. That’s because, if the couple can’t do something so simple as to say “Hey, shit is going on” then I can’t believe that their romance is one for the ages, destined to be together forever… Blah, blah. I just can’t. The foundation for a healthy relationship is communication, but Kestrel and Arin couldn’t tell each other the most simple things because they were too damn proud and distrusting.

The third book goes away from all of that and it picks up where TWK ended; with Kestrel incarcerated and Arin on his way to war.
I wasn’t sure what direction the story was going to take, but I was surprised to see how certain things developed but then I was glad because it allowed the characters to develop in more complex ways. This is, by far, the more character-driven of the three books. It deals with hurt and forgiveness and how people deal with it.

Perhaps my one complaint is that it wasn’t as pumped as I was hoping this ending was going to be. I mean, yes there were some super tense moments that kept me glued to the page, but there were problems that were solved way too easily or weren’t even paid any attention to when this was THE END of the story.

Overall, a good ending and great for the fans of the series!

PS: I had written this review on the 16th, but totally forgot to post it!

Nerve by Jeanne Ryan

For fans of The Hunger Games

A high-stakes online game of dares turns deadly

When Vee is picked to be a player in NERVE, an anonymous game of dares broadcast live online, she discovers that the gameknows her. They tempt her with prizes taken from her ThisIsMe page and team her up with the perfect boy, sizzling-hot Ian. At first it's exhilarating--Vee and Ian's fans cheer them on to riskier dares with higher stakes. But the game takes a twisted turn when they're directed to a secret location with five other players for the Grand Prize round. Suddenly they're playing all or nothing, with their lives on the line. Just how far will Vee go before she loses NERVE?

Debut author Jeanne Ryan delivers an un-putdownable suspense thriller.

Rating: 1/5 Stars

“A great phone without Mom and Dad complaining about the bill would be heaven. But am I willing to put myself on the streets to win it?”

Take a fucking guess, guys.

The reason I wanted to read Nerve was because of the upcoming movie starring Emma Roberts and Dave Franco, if you haven’t seen the trailer check it out because it’s AWESOME.

Unfortunately, the book wasn’t so great. I know the blurb says for fans of The Hunger Games, but in reality it’s more for fans of The Selection; applicants have to submit an entry to participate in the online game known as NERVE where people can be paid to do dares or pay to watch.

Vee is a regular girl, kind of reminded me a lot of Bella Swan (Dark hair, big eyes, great lips, thin but also curvy? Who is super jealous of her super gorgeous and amazing blond friend). Only Bella Swan was much more likeable than this girl.

                               

Vee is always doing safe stuff, she feels more comfortable working backstage than auditioning for the main roles at her school plays. She’s shy, she’s “good” AKA she’s really boring and whines all the time about being boring… it wasn’t the most thrilling combination ever.

“Recklessness is not part of my personality. Shy, hardworking, loyal, all of those boring Capricorn traits, that’s me.”

I knew that going into it, the story would be quite different from the trailer. But I was hoping that there’d be at least some excitement to it, you know?

Instead, the dares are kind of lame, but at the same time way over the edge, if that makes any sense. For instance, the reason Vee was selected to play in NERVE was because she did a preliminary dare in which she had to throw water over her head on a public dinner and say “COLD WATER MAKES ME HOT” so she grabs a little plastic cup and throws some, but somehow that infinitesimal amount of water soaks through her shirt and bra and makes them see-through, so her video becomes popular.

It just made no sense, this is a game where people are PAID to do dares, I bet there are thousands of people doing worse shit than this, and she somehow gets picked for a little water on her shirt?

The plot was lame, Vee is paired up with Ian, a super-hot, super-cool, super-boring and unrealistic guy that instantly falls in love with Vee (and viceversa) and they have to do the dares together. 
The dares themselves didn’t make much sense, since they weren’t bad enough (except maybe for one?) to explain why so little people got to the end. For instance, in one the two of them had to go to an abstinence reunion and ask for a condom, and of course Vee complains all the way through and feels awful. But on the next dare she has to pretend to be a hooker in a part of her twon where people get killed and she’s totally fine with it! 
Just when you think, ok maybe she’s getting used to the idea now?? She has to drink a beer on camera, and complains that “she can’t believe NERVE is making underage kids drink alcohol on camera!” 

Maybe the biggest problem for me was Vee, as a narrator she was terrible, not to mention an awful person. Vee had a crush on the biggest jerk on the planet, he is an actor at her school play, and he touches her without her consent, embarrasses her, takes the video of her nipples showing and shows it to everybody even though she begs him not to (but she’s still totally into him). 
But then, the unthinkable happens and in the last play when the Jerk had to kiss her best friend, Syd, for the final act, the kiss is prolonged for FIVE SECONDS.

That’s right! So it’s that only kiss and not her best friend’s claims that the guy is a total jerk and they should stay away from him, that convinces Vee that Syd is a backstabbing bitch and she should enter NERVE to prove her years’ worth friend that she's better than her.

Because that… makes total sense, right?

Throughout the whole book, it’s shown that Vee is a real asshole. Not only did she treat her best friend like scum for nothing but she was constantly complaining about the game, even though she KNEW what it was about and what she’d signed into. She keeps wondering “How is it that the game knows so much about me?!” as if it were a big secret, when in reality the girl posts everything she thinks and feels on social media. IT WAS IMPOSSIBLE NOT TO KNOW GAWWWDDDDDDD!

But of course Ian, super gorgeous and perfect Ian thinks Vee is the shit, and amazing, and kind and perfect even though he’s only known her for forty minutes.

I didn’t enjoy the way women were treated her, either. All women treated each other as “bitch” or “slut” and every single one of them (except her best friend, but she was an asshole in Vee’s eyes for NOT being an asshole) were awful to each other.

I kept reading to find something of that amazing factor that there was in the trailer, but no such thing happened. The construction of the story was sloppy, the writing forgettable and the romance incredibly forced and silly.

The ending also is… weird. I think it’d have made more sense as a series, but NERVE is a standalone so the final scene looks clunky.

In the end Nerve was a huge disappointment, it had tired tropes, horribly behavior toward women, and a boring and nonsensical plot.