A review by imanisun
All These Things I've Done by Gabrielle Zevin

2.0

Alrighty. Here I go. Here's the scoop.

While reading this book, here's all the things that I did:

*I admired the cover and binding(because it really was an awesome looking book).

*I got annoyed with the characters(especially Win)

*I wondered about their ethnicity(are they Italian, Russian?)

*I restrained myself from telling Ashley what it was about(she wants to read this too).

*I got disappointed.

*I realized that ( ) should only be used occasionally in books.

In short, "All These Things I've Done" turned out to be "All These Things I've Done w/ Very Little Detail or Passion". Seriously. I did like the whole futuristic things, but it seemed a bit contrived. I mean, when you have read as many dystopian novels as I have (Including the Hunger Games), after awhile any other dystopian books you've read seem to get cliche. At times, it didn't really even seem like they were in the future. And if Anya(the protagonist in this story) is suppose to be some daughter of this gang member, why wasn't she more...tough? I mean she was pretty tough but not in the gang kind of a way. Like, I wanted her to shoot someone and act like it was no big deal. And her boyfriend...Win. I wanted to like him. I really did. But I didn't really feel anything for him. Sure he had some personality. But for the most part, he was pretty bland and he was almost unneeded throughout the story. I honestly just wanted him to leave and quit bothering Anya.

Okay, so maybe that wasn't all that short.Although I gave this 4 ****, this disappointed me and did not live up to Zevin's other novel, [b:Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac|317282|Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac|Gabrielle Zevin|http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1317793286s/317282.jpg|308098]. Sigh. I kind of hope this is a trilogy because maybe the sequel will redeem some of the characters.