A Hundred And One Reasons (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
First and foremost, I read this book because a very close friend of mine recommended it. So finally, after seeing this book sitting in my shelf for less than a year now, I took the courage to read it. And it was half-frustrating and half-exciting.I'm not a fan of local popfiction (as they call it now) and I'm not even sure if this book is one. I'm literally tired of the COMMONLY USED storyline where girl gets sick and falls in love at the same time. And I had too high expectations on that kind of story because of SDTG. Seriously? Where are our creative juices, my dear fellowmen? Then, I must say that there are a lot of lose details in this story. Like who what when where questions that didn't get an answer 'til the end. One more thing is that the characters and situations are too dramatic, unrealistic and over-acted. Let alone, how often the characters cuss and talk like gang members. It doesn't sound cool. It's unnecessary.However, this book became exciting in some ways. But I ended up disappointed because my excitement got me nowhere. First, the 101 reasons weren't even finished. And second, she died JUST like that. After all the dramatic building up of this whole dying thing, you will just kill the protagonist that way?On the other hand, I like how the language became fluent for the author. I admire her use of words and metaphors. Oh hey look at that, I can rate a none or zero! (just found out lol)-Words are not enough to describe how disappointed I am with this. I expected this to be really good. As the saying, do not judge a book by it's cover, I judged it by the title. If there is a rating of zero, that would be my rating for this.Anyway, it's cliché, predictable, I did not like how some parts are just randomly added, I hate the characters' names, did not like the overflowing drama because it's very annoying, how the author just killed or made everybody sick, the rebel teenage stage that is oh so cliché, making the character fall in love, break up, then fall in love again (like seriously?), the gramma nazi in me is crying and typoerrors makingme insane (see what I did there?), and I guess that's it for this.Definitely never recommending this to anyone. I'll recommend it if the person wants a bad reading experience or if the person wants to be disappointed. I sort of regret buying the second book. I just bought it because I didn't want to leave it hanging. I'll see how that goes.Side note: Even though I do not like this book at all, I am forever grateful for the person who gave me this book because he supports my love, my hobby, my obsession, my addiction.
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