bookfairy95
Alright, I am finally sitting down and write some reviews that are long due, because I finished them a while ago already. I’ll start with the one that’s been sitting here the longest waiting to be reviewed: Lola. I had some troubles getting warm with Lola as a character, therefore I didn’t really feel the connection and her feelings just didn’t feel relevant to me at first. I liked her more when she finally sorted out her feelings for Cricket and generally when she “came to her senses”. All this deception didn’t really sit well with me. Overall, I must say that I liked Cricket way more than Lola as a character, because he felt genuine to me all the time. He wasn’t hiding anything and his feelings, actions and words seemed honest throughout the entire book. The cheating issues people had with Anna – and that I could see, but didn’t really bother me to an extreme amount – were worse in Lola. Lola actually had a real boyfriend whom she “loved”, not just a crush like Anna. They had regular brunch (was it?) with her parents and she tried really hard to convince her fathers to finally accept Max. And even though her parents had all these issues with Max, because of him being older and being a rocker and all that (which is understandable since Lola is underage), they realised what was going on with Lola when Cricket came into the picture and she didn’t tell Max anything of him. They didn’t approve of her lying to Max (or not mentioning anything) about “the boy next door”. They told her that what she was doing is wrong, and not only did her parents tell her, but also her best friend and Crickets’ sister and her mother. All these people continuously told her that she was doing something bad and yet I think Lola realised it far too late. I think this was a very problematic matter in this book, however, I really hope that Stephanie Perkins’ intention behind this was to teach something. In the end Lola does realise everything that’s bad and wrong in her behaviour and her way of acting. If it had truly been meant in a teaching way of what not to do I would appreciate it. Nonetheless, I think there are better ways of teaching than this.
