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A review by zarlina
Twenty-Seven Minutes by Ashley Tate
2.0
I'm so confused over this book. Not in a "I don't know what the hell happened" kind of way, but more because I struggle to find what the point of the story was. We have a mystery, a girl is dead in an accident, which we understand there is more to than what everyone in the book thinks. Through the story we find out that the characters have secrets, but none of it feels like it would be enough for what unfolded.
Grant is hiding something from Phoebe. He makes it sounds like it was something major, something that would ruin everyone's lives, but eh, was it really that bad in the end? And would he really let his sister DIE over something as stupid as her threatening to maybe tell someone about him using drugs? And what the hell was going on with Wyatt? We read things from his pov and we get to know he's hiding something from his sister and soon he needs to tell her what it is he's hiding, but he's actually dead? He's gonna tell *everyone* this big secret he has, something that will ruin lives, but he's... what? A ghost? Imagination? I have no idea. He must somehow tell June about it because she confronts Grant, but if Wyatt is actually dead, how did June know to confront him about it?
I'm so confused.
On top of that, we never really got to know any of the characters. I felt absolutely nothing when we got to relive the moment when Phoebe died. We didn't get to know her, despite the time jumping back and forth through the whole book, and when the twist about Becca was revealed all I felt was... eh? We didn't know her enough to feel bad for her, and we didn't know any of the other characters enough to get the feeling like she was some crazy stalker being delusional about the relationship she had with Grant.
It was all just "meh". I didn't hate it, but I also don't feel anything else about it. It doesn't bother me that we didn't get any real answers because I didn't connect with a single character enough to care about them, and the book wasn't so bad that I'm now angry enough to tell everyone about it. Which is good in its own way, but also not, because at least anger means I will be passionate about just how much I hated it. With this I feel nothing. It's just one of those books that I will forget all about the second I'm done with this review.
Grant is hiding something from Phoebe. He makes it sounds like it was something major, something that would ruin everyone's lives, but eh, was it really that bad in the end? And would he really let his sister DIE over something as stupid as her threatening to maybe tell someone about him using drugs? And what the hell was going on with Wyatt? We read things from his pov and we get to know he's hiding something from his sister and soon he needs to tell her what it is he's hiding, but he's actually dead? He's gonna tell *everyone* this big secret he has, something that will ruin lives, but he's... what? A ghost? Imagination? I have no idea. He must somehow tell June about it because she confronts Grant, but if Wyatt is actually dead, how did June know to confront him about it?
I'm so confused.
On top of that, we never really got to know any of the characters. I felt absolutely nothing when we got to relive the moment when Phoebe died. We didn't get to know her, despite the time jumping back and forth through the whole book, and when the twist about Becca was revealed all I felt was... eh? We didn't know her enough to feel bad for her, and we didn't know any of the other characters enough to get the feeling like she was some crazy stalker being delusional about the relationship she had with Grant.
It was all just "meh". I didn't hate it, but I also don't feel anything else about it. It doesn't bother me that we didn't get any real answers because I didn't connect with a single character enough to care about them, and the book wasn't so bad that I'm now angry enough to tell everyone about it. Which is good in its own way, but also not, because at least anger means I will be passionate about just how much I hated it. With this I feel nothing. It's just one of those books that I will forget all about the second I'm done with this review.