Review: Love, Jacaranda

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Love, Jacaranda Love, Jacaranda by Alex Flinn
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Note: An ARC was granted generously by the publisher HarperTeen, the author, Edelweiss in exchange for an honest review.

I was so excited for this novel, one because the cover is cute as hell, two some of my friends loved it and I in general loved the summary. SO these were obvious reasons why I requested an ARC from Edelweiss.

But then it all fell to...nothing. Disappointed me beyond hope.

So let me tell you how it all happened.

First of all the cover - The cover was cute as hell, a guy and a girl holding each other at night, so yeah cute as heck image and I liked it immediately: 1. the night. 2. the couple. SO yeah definitely a favorite cover of mine. Hence a star.

Second - The summary - Jacaranda is a girl who has a talent of singing even though lives in a poor condition, works and still goes to school and behaves like a normal 16 year old as best as she can. One day while singing for a customer at the supermarket she works at, she gets viral after being filmed there. Soon her life changes after a mysterious benefactor offers to pay for everything and send her to a prestigious music school. There she embarks on a life changing path, meeting new friends, finding love and navigating the world of music and finding her place among the prodigies and the rich ones who don't have much talent.

A good summary. Not so cliche but not that original. I liked it, hence the star.

But then it all blew like a volcano on my face.

ONE thing that completely ruined it all- the formatting of the writing.

Look, she originally started off as a POV. But then somehow magically, it all switched to letter writing. I don't like being mislead like this. Hence my DNF.

The author should try to stick to one writing style and not manipulate or trick a reader into writing something and making them think that it's still the same.

So a miss for me, alas. Maybe someone else will like it. But I certainly didn't.

I might not even try her other novels for this misleading.

So yeah, DNFed. Not recommended.

Until the next read,

TMR

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