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A review by anna_reads_too_much
Fault Line by Christa Desir
1.0
I have been thinking about how to write my review for FAULT LINE for about a week now. I have this horrible feeling that this review is going to be a jumble of ideas, but hopefully it made sense!
I bought Fault Line without reading it from the library first, like I normally do, because there were so many great reviews of it on the blogs I read when it first came out. I saw it in Barnes and Noble when I was spending my Christmas gift cards, and so I bought it.
I was hoping for a lot more from this book than what I got. Needless to say, I was very disappointed.
I was thinking this was going to be a very deep, very powerful book that made me feel something. However, I didn't feel anything. I almost didn't finish it, but managed to keep going, hoping for that connection with the story, with the characters, with any part of this book.
Ben is a hard character to relate to and understand. When I was reading, I felt like he was a stereotypical boy. I had no connection to him at all as I was reading. I felt like he was two-dimentional, like he was a part of this book only, and that this story isn't a story that could have happened to real characters. This feeling of two-dimentionalism is how I basically felt about all the characters in the book. I never connected with them, therefore I never connected with the story at all.
Most people are commenting on the ambiguous ending. For once, the open ending didn't bother me. This is actually the one part of the book that I didn't mind! It resembles real life - the person victimized and their family or friends might never really know what happened that one night.
Overall, I had no connection to the characters or story. I would pass on this book.
I bought Fault Line without reading it from the library first, like I normally do, because there were so many great reviews of it on the blogs I read when it first came out. I saw it in Barnes and Noble when I was spending my Christmas gift cards, and so I bought it.
I was hoping for a lot more from this book than what I got. Needless to say, I was very disappointed.
I was thinking this was going to be a very deep, very powerful book that made me feel something. However, I didn't feel anything. I almost didn't finish it, but managed to keep going, hoping for that connection with the story, with the characters, with any part of this book.
Ben is a hard character to relate to and understand. When I was reading, I felt like he was a stereotypical boy. I had no connection to him at all as I was reading. I felt like he was two-dimentional, like he was a part of this book only, and that this story isn't a story that could have happened to real characters. This feeling of two-dimentionalism is how I basically felt about all the characters in the book. I never connected with them, therefore I never connected with the story at all.
Most people are commenting on the ambiguous ending. For once, the open ending didn't bother me. This is actually the one part of the book that I didn't mind! It resembles real life - the person victimized and their family or friends might never really know what happened that one night.
Overall, I had no connection to the characters or story. I would pass on this book.