Lisbeth Avery {Domus Libri}'s Reviews > Glitch

Caution: Rant ahead; proceed at your own cost.

Shhh! Don’t tell anyone, but the truth is I couldn’t didn’t finish the book. I got halfway in, then decided I couldn’t take it anymore.

To start with what I liked, I was glad when the book started, Zoel was already glitching. I didn’t want to go through pages of blankness and robotic-ness. I’m glad the Zoel started questioning everything before Adrien came. The story premise was interesting and I can honestly say I really wanted to read it. That’s about it.

Ms. Anastasiu: if you can’t come up with new words that don’t make your characters sound like dimwits, don’t use them at all. I can’t possibly like a guy who says shunting, gnangy, and godlam’d.

Insta-love to the extreme. In Twilight, she saw him for a week or so before she was in love with him. Zoel saw Adrien for maybe five hours before she decided she may be in love with him.

Characters:
Zoel was just another Mary Sue. She relied on men to do anything. She falls in love with a guy after knowing him for all of a few hours. Zoel didn’t know she was pretty till the fact was pointed out to her.

I’m having a weird sense of deja vu…



—Bella doesn’t seem to know either!
Adrien bored me to death. I have nothing else to say.

Max was even worse. I’m guessing he’s part of the love triangle, but how could any one like him after (and no, I am not joking) he asks her if he could see her genitalia. And he’s a love interest.

Fail.

Plot:
I’ve read bad books with horrible characters, but I usually keep reading because I may be mildly interested in the plot. Maybe I didn’t get far enough, but the plot was boring. I didn’t care about anything.

Even though I only got halfway in, I saw some holes in the plot. For example, if the memory disruptor would make Zoe forget about her make out session with Adrien, wouldn’t it make her forget about glitching? And if glitching made sure the disruptor didn’t work, she would remember Adrien.

Granted, I’m probably over thinking this.

What I liked/disliked:

Liked:

■ Zoel was already glitching
■ Premise
■ Zoe was questioning things

Disliked:

■ Plot
■ Zoel
■ Adrien
■ Adrien’s cuss words
■ Max
■ Insta love

In conclusion:
I strongly disliked this book, so much so I dropped it (something I haven’t done in a very long time). I do not recommend it to anyone and suggest you avoid it like the plague.