Eleanor Richmond

Read this like 3 years ago in class, they kept saying “you will get the humor eventually” well guess what it’s been three years and I still think that word puns are for the dude that works for corporate and wears fun socks, telling bad jokes to lighten the mood.

Sat down. Read the book. Squinted my eyes. Squinted them again. Still couldn’t find the plot. Where is it? All of them had a limerence for one another and were just teenagers with wayyy too many opinions

Too dramatic. I can just picture the author thinking at his desk, “this is too boring so far, let’s pull the classic move and make the dad die..” just why. But don’t take it from me, I’m just a person who was forced to read it because of school.

I also had to read this book for 7th grade, and let me say, I am being generous by giving it two stars. Although this doesn’t have much to do with the book, the audio that we had to listen to was absolutely insufferable. The plot is so predictable and yet…not? It gets messy at the end and doesn’t make much sense, since it REALLY plays into the stereotypical historical aspects. Because nothing bad can ever happen to that stupid main character except predictable things. In addition, the main character is whiny and annoying, the author uses said for almost every piece of dialogue. Before you all say as much, yes: I know yellow fever was disgusting, and well this book definitely… showed it, beware for chapter nine. It was absolutely traumatizing. Honestly, the people that like this just like YA, and there’s nothing inherently wrong with that, it’s just not my cup of tea.