hello everyone! today, i’m going to be talking about all we could have been by te carter. i gave this book 2.5/5 stars. i’ll explain more about this as i get into this, but i just didn’t like the book and found it really boring at parts.
first thing, i found lexi annoying. she was over dramatic and just complained everything. and most of the time she didn’t make a whole lot of sense. she tried so hard to be so private, but then confessed everything to her friends. and she just went back and forth and couldn’t make up her mind.
i don’t understand why she wanted to go unnoticed and glide through senior year, but joined drama and got friends and boyfriend. i get that every teenager wants to have friends, but, it’s almost like she has two completely different personalities.
i don’t understand about her blood shirt. so, in the start of the book, she talks about this shirt covered in blood. which you later realizes is about her brother. but, i don’t understand how she saw this said shirt, because the police or detectives had to take it, and would obviously put it in a bag.
start slow, picks up, gets slow, and then gets really boring. i really only found the parts with ryan and marcus interesting. it was just boring, since it was so slow. but, there definitely where better parts in between the two of them.
the whole book is about her high school life not her brother. and i felt like it was miss talked about. it’s talked about like you are learning about her brother and what he did, and him learning about what he did. but no, you get lexi in school, with her friends, complaining, and being an outcast.
they sound very young and cliche. i know that they are high school seniors, but they sound so young. and it’s not just the way they talk, it’s the way they act. plus, it’s so cliche. with the fake dating, the ‘love triangle,’ the parents not approving, her falling in love with the bad boy.
positive, i love marcus and lexi together. but, i think that it still is very much a middle school romance, but still they are very good together.
anyway, i hope you enjoy this. i know it was mostly me complaining, but still, i think it is worth reading, since it’s my opinion, and everyone has different opinion.
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