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A review by veecaswell
Sam & Ilsa's Last Hurrah by Rachel Cohn, David Levithan
2.0
As a fan of collaborations (Magisterium for example!) and David Levithan (I still can’t contain my feelings about Every Day yet) I knew I wanted to read this book and I was sort of mehh about it.
I don’t really get how close the twins are when they are so different. Of course this difference makes for a good dynamic for the plot - Ilsa’s guests are very different from Sam’s and of course it makes for entertaining dinner party discussion however, I just think they tried to hard to be random and it came over as a little trying too hard throughout this book.
I don’t know if Ilsa is meant to be so unlikeable, but she is. Sam seems to have anxiety and Ilsa seems to like making it worse by bothering him and trying to hook him up with everyone he knows, the boy has no autonomy throughout this book as he is defined by her psychologically from the beginning.
I like stories to believe in and this just didn’t feel like it could happen, I do like the premise and the variety of characters, but this one just wasn’t for me at all.
(I received an ARC from Netgalley for a honest review).
I don’t really get how close the twins are when they are so different. Of course this difference makes for a good dynamic for the plot - Ilsa’s guests are very different from Sam’s and of course it makes for entertaining dinner party discussion however, I just think they tried to hard to be random and it came over as a little trying too hard throughout this book.
I don’t know if Ilsa is meant to be so unlikeable, but she is. Sam seems to have anxiety and Ilsa seems to like making it worse by bothering him and trying to hook him up with everyone he knows, the boy has no autonomy throughout this book as he is defined by her psychologically from the beginning.
I like stories to believe in and this just didn’t feel like it could happen, I do like the premise and the variety of characters, but this one just wasn’t for me at all.
(I received an ARC from Netgalley for a honest review).