jayvall reviewed Sucks to be me by Kimberly Pauley
Review of 'Sucks to be me' on 'Goodreads'
3 stars
This is probably closer to a 2-star "it was ok" but I typically use 2 stars to mean, I didn't really like it that much, which is why it's getting 3 stars from me. Which is not to say it was A GREAT BOOK! it wasn't. It was an ok book but with nothing so wrong with it that I found it annoying.
Perhaps the biggest criticism is for a book where the main character has to choose between becoming a vampire or not, it was super boring. Nothing really happens. She likes 2 different boys, she's got a school project. She's trying to hook up her two best friends. I kept waiting for some kind of conflict, or something that would make me gasp and turn the pages even faster, but there was nothing. The only gasp-worthy thing happened about 15 pages from the end, and it had nothing …
This is probably closer to a 2-star "it was ok" but I typically use 2 stars to mean, I didn't really like it that much, which is why it's getting 3 stars from me. Which is not to say it was A GREAT BOOK! it wasn't. It was an ok book but with nothing so wrong with it that I found it annoying.
Perhaps the biggest criticism is for a book where the main character has to choose between becoming a vampire or not, it was super boring. Nothing really happens. She likes 2 different boys, she's got a school project. She's trying to hook up her two best friends. I kept waiting for some kind of conflict, or something that would make me gasp and turn the pages even faster, but there was nothing. The only gasp-worthy thing happened about 15 pages from the end, and it had nothing to do with Mina.
I read this because it was easy, and it fit the parameters of the book challenge I'm doing, but I wouldn't have read it otherwise. I used to read more YA than I do now, which probably explains why it's been in my TBR for so long, but I almost wonder if this isn't more middle-grade than YA. It's pretty chaste, there's essentially no violence. But I can see how an advanced reader might enjoy it. I probably would have if I had been 10 or so.
