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A review by yuniesan
Truly Madly Royally by Debbie Rigaud
3.0
Okay, let me get through the parts I like before I get to the fact that I give this book a 2.5 out of five stars.
1. Summer College Courses = Meeting Cute Royal Prince
2. Positive Role Model in Zora
3. Mixing two cultures together while also dealing with the awkwardness of trying to be a high school student on a college campus
Now that that's over.....
Honestly I had so much hope for this book, but it was such a mess from start to finish, firstly there's the way it's written it so weird it made it hard for me to get through, sometimes it's written in present tense and it makes no sense. Secondly, it felt really hard to connect with the things that Zora was passionate about, they were often rushed moments where too many characters were talking at the same time never really letting you get to know those characters and their relationship to Zora. Like the kids in the program she started, they were a jumbled mix of sentences and that's all you had, never the reasons why they were so close to her, or why she knew everything they dreamed of. Third, it didn't feel like you were reading about a place, sometimes setting the scene makes everything possible, but even that was a rushed mess of words. The book was too short for what it was attempting to accomplish, and the rush of the relationship was weird, seriously it goes from zero to sixty in such a short time that you can't really get to understand their relationship in the end.
1. Summer College Courses = Meeting Cute Royal Prince
2. Positive Role Model in Zora
3. Mixing two cultures together while also dealing with the awkwardness of trying to be a high school student on a college campus
Now that that's over.....
Honestly I had so much hope for this book, but it was such a mess from start to finish, firstly there's the way it's written it so weird it made it hard for me to get through, sometimes it's written in present tense and it makes no sense. Secondly, it felt really hard to connect with the things that Zora was passionate about, they were often rushed moments where too many characters were talking at the same time never really letting you get to know those characters and their relationship to Zora. Like the kids in the program she started, they were a jumbled mix of sentences and that's all you had, never the reasons why they were so close to her, or why she knew everything they dreamed of. Third, it didn't feel like you were reading about a place, sometimes setting the scene makes everything possible, but even that was a rushed mess of words. The book was too short for what it was attempting to accomplish, and the rush of the relationship was weird, seriously it goes from zero to sixty in such a short time that you can't really get to understand their relationship in the end.