A review by novelheartbeat
iBoy by Kevin Brooks

Did not finish book.

DNF

This was really more of Middle Grade than Young Adult. While the concept was cool, the writing was flat and boring. And so were the characters. The idea of a boy getting pieces of an iPhone embedded into his brain, thus developing the power to do some awesome things, was very neat and original. But the delivery was horrific. The way things were explained was a train wreck. It was all over the place, and repetitive - I felt like I was running up a downward escalator. It was exhausting!

And the text talk, really? Who the hell actually talks like that? I understand using 2 and u instead of the real words, but come on. People don't abbreviate EVERYTHING. I don't know even one single person that texts like that. I actually had trouble figuring out what the supposed text messages were trying to say. Plus there were WAY too many dots in the conversations. The pages were so overloaded with "blah blah...." pauses that it was distracting and made my brain hurt. What's wrong with using a f*cking period?

I was bored out of my mind and I didn't give a crap about the story or the characters. I couldn't bring myself to get past 100 pages.