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cowboying 's review for:
The Living
by Matt de la Peña
Honestly over all this book wasn't awful, for myself personally it was really slow. It took a long time for anything to really happen. I think that was to just set it up at the end for the big reveal, but I felt it wasn't necessary. The author did a really good job of explaining the settings and characters, it just overwhelmed the main plot of the book. If the book was longer it would have been better. I figure it is just setting up for the next book, but I felt it was done in a bad way. I probably wouldn't have finished the book if it wasn't assigned. Also another problem I had was how women were described and treated by other characters, I feel like the author was trying to connect to an audience that I'm not a part of, but I feel using weaker, "hot", and desperate girls is kinda lame.