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A review by deedeethebumblebee
The Difference Between You and Me by Madeleine George
1.0
DNF at 100 pages. I was going to continue with this, but I found out I just couldn't. Some reasons why:
-I just didn't care about the characters. At all. If you know me, you know I love character development and character analysis and just characters in general. A story can be crap and if I can find one character I become attached to and care about what happens to them - the whole book isn't ruined for me. For this book, it wasn't the case. I mean, the characters were well written. They were interesting, if slightly obnoxious. But almost halfway through the book, I found I didn't care what happened to them. Something terrible could've happened and I would've just sighed and turned the page.
-The story was moving along at a snail's pace and I found myself skimming a lot of parts. Also Emily's narration was just...irritating for some reason.
-I didn't *want* to really read this book. I mean, I did when I picked it up from the library. But about fifty pages in, I just wanted to finish it because I had so many others to read.
I'm overly persistent when it comes to finishing books (not series - if the first book doesn't catch my interest enough I won't read the others), but with this I just couldn't trudge on any longer. It's a shame, because I love LGBT+ fiction, especially in YA, and I think there needs to be a lot more of it. This isn't a good example of it. If you are looking for good LGBT+ themed stories I recommend Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe or Beauty Queens - both great, with interesting, well-written characters. I'm sad I had to give up on this one, but it was really tying my patience.
-I just didn't care about the characters. At all. If you know me, you know I love character development and character analysis and just characters in general. A story can be crap and if I can find one character I become attached to and care about what happens to them - the whole book isn't ruined for me. For this book, it wasn't the case. I mean, the characters were well written. They were interesting, if slightly obnoxious. But almost halfway through the book, I found I didn't care what happened to them. Something terrible could've happened and I would've just sighed and turned the page.
-The story was moving along at a snail's pace and I found myself skimming a lot of parts. Also Emily's narration was just...irritating for some reason.
-I didn't *want* to really read this book. I mean, I did when I picked it up from the library. But about fifty pages in, I just wanted to finish it because I had so many others to read.
I'm overly persistent when it comes to finishing books (not series - if the first book doesn't catch my interest enough I won't read the others), but with this I just couldn't trudge on any longer. It's a shame, because I love LGBT+ fiction, especially in YA, and I think there needs to be a lot more of it. This isn't a good example of it. If you are looking for good LGBT+ themed stories I recommend Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe or Beauty Queens - both great, with interesting, well-written characters. I'm sad I had to give up on this one, but it was really tying my patience.