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A review by woolfardis
Travel Glasses by Chess Desalls
1.0
A generic first-person Young Adult novel, attempting to be the next Twilight. Same old story: young girl is moody because she's so different and no-one understands (with missing parent figures, tick), she meets a boy who is described as beautiful within the first few pages, she falls for him and they run off together. But it's okay, because she constantly questions whether she should have feelings for him, making this 100% feminist literature.
Because women can run off with men at a moment's notice, too. Even if they've been let down by their parents and betrayed by their friends and don't trust anyone any more, why wouldn't they just drop theirknickers plans for the first hot male that appears out of nowhere?
The author used a thesaurus far too much and was keen to show off her knowledge of words. Unfortunately, quite often those words were used in the wrong place. The concept is quite nice and has dashes of originality, but the execution is poor. We visit different places but none are ever described much at all, the world-building is non-existent which is usually fine for fans of YA because they prefer character development, but there is little of that here, too.
Because women can run off with men at a moment's notice, too. Even if they've been let down by their parents and betrayed by their friends and don't trust anyone any more, why wouldn't they just drop their
The author used a thesaurus far too much and was keen to show off her knowledge of words. Unfortunately, quite often those words were used in the wrong place. The concept is quite nice and has dashes of originality, but the execution is poor. We visit different places but none are ever described much at all, the world-building is non-existent which is usually fine for fans of YA because they prefer character development, but there is little of that here, too.