No Star for You!
As I always get a giggle out of Travis Jonker's One Star Review Guess Who posts, I figured I'd swipe the idea and post the occasional one-star Amazon review of a much-lauded YA title.
So, can you guess what book this disappointed reader is reviewing?:
This book is so boring. I felt like I was being forced to read it for school or something. The whole first half of the book is 5 men/youths traveling across mountains, plains, forests, rocks, pebbles, blah blah blah. The author spends WAY too much time describing the mundane things the characters are doing and the boring scenery they are passing. I don't want to read about how many hills they hike up, or how many mountain peaks or 'flat spaces' they can see, or what direction they are traveling. It is so tedious. I don't want to read about how many naps [PROTAGONIST] takes, or how much oatmeal he eats, or how hungry he claims to be.
Just writing about this makes me hate this book even more. [PROTAGONIST] is the most unlikable, whiny character ever. I admit that I didn't finish the book; I wasn't enjoying it at all. I do know what happens at the end, but I feel that the author had no excuse for boring her readers so thoroughly in the first half of the book. I even flipped through the rest of the book and I saw a lot more descriptions of landscapes and food and other boring things.
There are so many better books to read than this one; books that are a joy to read, books that captivate you from beginning to end instead of making you power through pages and pages of boring text like this one does.
Skip it.