Lisa de Nikolits

I got this in a package bundle with [b:The Witchdoctor's Bones|19536990|The Witchdoctor's Bones|Lisa de Nikolits|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1399704951s/19536990.jpg|27663342] through Goodreads First Reads. It was actually a bit of a surprise, since I'd only been expecting one book. I will say this though, I much perfered the other story to this one, although, looking back, they're quite similar in some ways. I suppose I'll leave that for other readers to decide though; it could just be me.

In terms of the quantity of characters, I can definitely say I enjoyed this smaller case infinitely more than the last book I read by de Nikolitis. It was very clear that this was all about Benny, and the other characters she picked up along the way just showed us a different facet of her personality.

I couldn't really get into Benny as a character though. She changed in the end, but this whole story seemed more along the lines of a pill popping escape than a self-realization sort of journey. It did turn into a good story about growing up in the figurative sense and discovering what you really want out of life. In addition, de Nikolitis (obviously through Benny) reminds readers that you don't need to have your life figured out by the time you're 25, and sometimes it takes doing something completely out of character to rekindle a spark. For Benny, it was her creative spark, but for someone else, it could be the kick in the pants to go back to school, or get sober, or even try out one of their "scathingly brilliant ideas" (obviously I'm speculating, as it did none of these things for me).

I don't know. I really WANTED to like this book. Really I did. I just couldn't. Maybe I need to wait a few years and read it again when I still have no idea what I'm going to do with my life or maybe when i have everything figured out. Perhaps I'm too blue to read it right now and it should be read when one feels more up beat and determined. I'm really not sure. Maybe I'll give it another look-see in a few years and see what happens.

I'd like to give it 2.5 stars, but I don't really know how to do that on here, so 2 it is for now.… (mehr)

I got this in a package bundle with [b:The Witchdoctor's Bones|19536990|The Witchdoctor's Bones|Lisa de Nikolits|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1399704951s/19536990.jpg|27663342] through Goodreads First Reads. It was actually a bit of a surprise, since I'd only been expecting one book. I will say this though, I much perfered the other story to this one, although, looking back, they're quite similar in some ways. I suppose I'll leave that for other readers to decide though; it could just be me.

In terms of the quantity of characters, I can definitely say I enjoyed this smaller case infinitely more than the last book I read by de Nikolitis. It was very clear that this was all about Benny, and the other characters she picked up along the way just showed us a different facet of her personality.

I couldn't really get into Benny as a character though. She changed in the end, but this whole story seemed more along the lines of a pill popping escape than a self-realization sort of journey. It did turn into a good story about growing up in the figurative sense and discovering what you really want out of life. In addition, de Nikolitis (obviously through Benny) reminds readers that you don't need to have your life figured out by the time you're 25, and sometimes it takes doing something completely out of character to rekindle a spark. For Benny, it was her creative spark, but for someone else, it could be the kick in the pants to go back to school, or get sober, or even try out one of their "scathingly brilliant ideas" (obviously I'm speculating, as it did none of these things for me).

I don't know. I really WANTED to like this book. Really I did. I just couldn't. Maybe I need to wait a few years and read it again when I still have no idea what I'm going to do with my life or maybe when i have everything figured out. Perhaps I'm too blue to read it right now and it should be read when one feels more up beat and determined. I'm really not sure. Maybe I'll give it another look-see in a few years and see what happens.

I'd like to give it 2.5 stars, but I don't really know how to do that on here, so 2 it is for now.… (mehr)