Review - Fallen Crest High by Tijan

Genre:  Mature YA, Romance, Drama
Overall Score:  2 / 5
Content Rating:  R
Technical Rating:  1 / 5
Series?: Yes
Would Recommend?:  No

" I don't wanna go to sleep

I wanna stay up all night

I wanna just screw around

I don't wanna think about

What's gonna be after this

I wanna just live right now "

C'Mon - Ke$sha

A vague book synopsis gives way to an even vaguer book. Far too confusing to  be enjoyable. Cut some subplots, clean up the errors and this could have been a decent read.

_Summary_

Mason and Logan Kade are two brothers who did their own thing. They were rich and expected to attend her school, Fallen Crest Academy. They chose public school and now Samantha has to live with them. The problem is that she doesn't care at all: about them, about her friends, about her cheating boyfriend, or even about her parent's divorce. But maybe that's a good thing. Maybe change is a good thing. - via goodreads.com

_Technical Review_

This story was absolutely murdered by horrendous spelling and grammar errors. Spelling mistakes, missing words, incomplete sentences, complete sentences that made absolutely no sense, lack of understanding of how to properly use pronouns that caused all sorts of confusion as to who was speaking or being spoken to/about. I read a lot of self pub/indie books, and errors are part of the deal. Usually, I can just ignore them as I read, but I just couldn't do it with this book. It was too hard to keep straight who said/did what because of the pronoun misuse and massive amounts of missing words. Can and Can't, Do and Don't and many other combos were often mixed up - drastically changing the meaning of a lot of phrases. There were many occasions where it felt like the author opened a dictionary to a random page, chose a random word and just stuck it in a sentence, regardless of if it made any sense. I got the feeling that English is not the authors's first language. I'd be shocked if it was.

_Personal [Spoilered] Review_

Angry, ranting review incoming... I'm a fan of music as much as books and often when I read, songs pop into my head that I feel fit the book or characters. This whole time, I just kept thinking "this book is a bigger train wreck than a Ke$ha song." The book managed 2 stars out of me because of Logan. He's the only reason I finished this one. His idgaf attitude and smartass mouth made him an enjoyable, funny personality to read. The rest of the lot was very hard to find enjoyable. The attraction and bond between Mason and Samantha was nearly nonexistent and poorly built. When they finally decided to suck face it was awkward and felt random. Mason comes off cold and uncaring towards Samantha, he wants her just to want her. He doesn't seem to actually give a shit about her - he just goes after her to piss off someone else and just to show he can have her if he wants her. Even as the story progressed, I just didn't feel the connection between the two of them. Logan was the same. The "surprise" revelation at the end that Logan loves her and wants her too was just so out of left field and random. He never acts in any way other than a welcoming, if not a bit mental, soon to be stepbrother. I just didn't buy it.

The premise of the story could have been good, had it not turned into a crazy soap opera. Way too many characters, way too much pointless drama and way too many plot twists in an already convoluted plot. These two are brothers, she's the soon to be step sister who's mother cheated with their father, who's real mother cheated on their father while he cheated on her and now she's sleeping with the soon to be step sister's biological father and while her fake father is sleeping with a pta mom, and they're all actually mermaids who come from atlantis but decided to grow legs and move to the shore to live in mansions. It was just too much. All it was missing was a trip to the Maury show, with Mr. Povich waving cards around screaming "You are NOT the father!"

Based on the ratings and reviews, this looks like one of those books that I'm in the minority of as far as liking it goes. And I'm completely okay with that. Logan, ilu, but I will not be reading the follow-up to this one.