Chloe Stephens

I felt like there was a few things that were left unanswered. I also wasn't a huge fan of the ending, I felt like it could have gone in a different direction. I felt like the ending didn't really match the character, and so the ending felt wrong for this book. I expected it to be a lot more academic, but it wasn't. I also felt like the twins whole drama wasn't necessary, and a bit random. A lot of things that happened in this book felt random, and whilst they were good ideas, I think the book would have been better if it was just focused on the main plot point-the murder. It was a good story to listen to, but not one I'm absolutely jumping to talk about with people. I would recommend this to quite a few people, but I'd be warning them that it's a long book with an unsatisfying end

It took me 2 1/2 years to get around to reading this cover to cover but I am glad I did. I really enjoyed learning about how someone could feel so genuinely angry at a country for failing in writing. This is a collection of poems deeply rooted America, there’s even a poem that’s addressed to America. Whilst I didn’t personally enjoy every single one of the poems, I found it very educational to read. It was really interesting to see how this style of poetry came about, and how the author, through his poetry, calls out America on its old, repetitive, easy-out way of writing. I can also appreciate how this collection was one of the first of its kind to step outside of that box. It definitely shed some light into how poetry evolved, specifically for America.

Love, love, loved this! What a wild, bittersweet autobiography! This woman’s life has been absolutely absurd, and terrifying. Even from a young age she navigates her way through the world, learning how to use herself to get what she wants. She wants to get some new clothes? Steals it. She wants to do heroin? Bangs a 26 year old for some. She wants to get her tongue and nipples pierced at age 12? Flirts with the piercer and gets it. I could go on and on. I was particularly surprised to hear about her issues with Ace, and how she dealt with that (or didn’t deal with, more like). It is just so insane to me that she never had any support, no matter what stage in her life. From being 5 years old, having separated parents, having parents to abuse her and each other, and having to steal to survive and hide whatever money she could, to now, being 34 years old and one of the highest paid supermodels in the world. Truely amazes me to have heard her story and seen how far she’s come.

A cute little collection, easy to read and listen to. Great imagery, deeply rooted in LA. Shoutout to Lana for adding music to the background of the audio version, it really helped shape the tone of the poems.

I would like to start out by saying I appreciate that I am clearly not the target audience for this book. I didn't like the writing style or the dialogue/ monologue choice. It was definitely trying to be quirky, relatable and intelligent but it was just annoying. I didn't like Elenor at ALL. She felt like such a poser and there are so many things that were just unnecessary, or didn't quite pack the punch. For example, I guessed the killer in the first 5 pages, and there's no mention of anything related to him until the last 20 pages when he basically just randomly admits to being the killer. There's also lots of questions that weren't answered, for instance, why do her family keep moving towns so often? Where is her dad? Why can't the police do their job? Why is everyone so casual about a murder? I felt like the book was written for 10 year olds, but the characters are aged 16-20, and so the thoughts that they have and the way they say certain things, just isn't the way any other 16-20 year old would think or speak. It felt very dumb. And the mystery wasn't even good. I was so excited to finish this book so that I didn't have to read it anymore and I could shove it away into a deep dark pit somewhere and forget it ever existed. This book was $4 at a second hand book store, and it was $4 too much. Even free would have been too much. My hater-isis was flaring up reading this. Thank god it's over. The book is called "Elenor Jones is not a murderer. Literally only 1 person called her a murderer, and she's the school bully so it doesn't even count. I’ll definitely give this author another chance on a different series, and I appreciate that this is her first novel, but it just wasn’t meeting my expectations. Sorry :(