The story is told backwards, beginning with Jule on the run. She’s dressed up in disguise, calls herself “Imogen” and flees when she feels her cover has been blown.
The story is told in third person, by an unreliable narrator. This was one of the only positives I can think of with this book. The unreliability meant I questioned myself as to who I believed and who I felt sympathetic towards. None of the characters were particularly likeable but I think that’s the way they were meant to be portrayed. I also found them completely unrelatable and unlikable because of their attitudes, they were privileged young girls with a lot of money and time to waste.
Being told backwards means it’s quite obvious what has happened. We’re supposed to find out the hows and whys but this didn’t really build up much tension and I found it all very unbelievable and anticlimactic. Being marketed as a mystery, I expected SOME mystery or suspense. There was very little.
I get what E. Lockhart was trying to do and I commend someone for trying a different style but this didn’t quite work for me. I definitely preferred We Were Liars.
The story is told in third person, by an unreliable narrator. This was one of the only positives I can think of with this book. The unreliability meant I questioned myself as to who I believed and who I felt sympathetic towards. None of the characters were particularly likeable but I think that’s the way they were meant to be portrayed. I also found them completely unrelatable and unlikable because of their attitudes, they were privileged young girls with a lot of money and time to waste.
Being told backwards means it’s quite obvious what has happened. We’re supposed to find out the hows and whys but this didn’t really build up much tension and I found it all very unbelievable and anticlimactic. Being marketed as a mystery, I expected SOME mystery or suspense. There was very little.
I get what E. Lockhart was trying to do and I commend someone for trying a different style but this didn’t quite work for me. I definitely preferred We Were Liars.