BOOK REVIEW: IF I FIX YOU BY ABIGAIL JOHNSON

the writing just absolutely ruined this for me

I can't tell if this book would've been a better book if it had had better writing, but as it stands, it was not a particularly good book. There's no way of getting around it: the writing was melodramatic as hell. I don't really have any quotes to show you what I mean by "melodramatic" (frankly I didn't care enough about this book to highlight any for this review), so you'll have to take my word for it. It was a really trite, tired, recycled kind of writing, and it just made the book feel interchangeable with any other subpar YA contemporary out there. Aside from that, I found the characters to be pretty flimsy and forgettable. Also, one of the 16-year-old main character's love interests was a 21-year-old guy and just...why? Both characters acknowledged that it was inappropriate for them to be in a relationship, but I was just so creeped out by the weird sexual tension all the same. Like why even include the potential of a relationship between a minor and a 21-year-old guy? Why include him in this book in the first place? It irritated me, and I have no idea why the author decided that would be a good idea.

Anyway, I didn't like this book very much. You win some, you lose some.