Jack McEvoy kinda troubles me...(NOT!)

Of course, one doesn't have to love a character to appreciate a book or series.  And Jack McEvoy didn't trouble me until The Scarecrow.  I really did enjoy The Poet but then I didn't like Scarecrow so much I was surprised by how much I really did enjoy Fair Warning. But FW was so good that I will read the book about Jack.  Even though I do find him troubling...I don't remember why...but there were some things in Scarecrow that really made me raise my eyebrows...but maybe I am just being picky.

NO NO NO WAIT!

Dude while I didn't like Scarecrow, it wasn't Jack that bothered me...it was the guy from the other book by that woman who writes about a woman priest and a sheriff.  And the sheriff guy is a HUGE Blame-the-Victim dude.  BIG Time!  This one! 

So I had to change my title of the "review."  Jack is just a regular dude.  I mean, do feel bad for him because he lacks a lot of self confidence, especially when it comes to love.  But he isn't a creep like the law guy in that other series!  Sorry! 

Was it Just

that I didn't like the character?  I gave My Life Before Me only 3 of 5 stars.  I really didn't like Cady.  All of the girls had the same problem, but Cady just was a jerk.  In my opinion.  She was very realistic!  Her journey took her to the United States, to the state of Indiana, where racism is rampant, just like in the south.  I can't tell if Cady is as miserable and uncaring about her birth parents as she seems to be or if it is a defense mechanism.  Either way, this was my least favorite one, but still glad I read it.

Cruising Along...

Oh, Snap!  is the fourth book in The Cruisers series by literary legend Walter Dean Myers.  I do love Mr. Myers and I love Zander Scott, but I am not deeply in love with this book just because I think it jumped around a lot.  There was a lot going on here.  Sometimes that is great in a book, but for me in this case, it just took a little bit of something away for me.  That said, I will continue to read this series and to love WDM.  

A Lot Going on Here!

When my car was super messy, which was and is, always, my friend Rachel would politely say, "There's a lot going on here,"  referring to the mess.  In Far from You, there is a lot of mess and there is, for sure, a lot going on in Sophie Winters life.  She's only seventeen and she is already a drug addict in recovery and she has almost died twice.  Her best friend is dead, murdered right in front of her.  And the thing is, her best friend, Mina, wasn't just her best friend, she was love as well.  Her secret love.  But very much her love.
The characters in the book are so real and well drawn.  The story is too, and I didn't figure out the ending.  Great book and I will recommend it for sure and buy it for the library.