The Fever

by Megan Abbott

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I mean the book started out as what I would like to think of as uncanny. I like the style but it's the same one many authors try to achieve and butcher in the process, the one that looks like shit in contemporary books. The full plot didn't seem to be completely revealed in the end but because it is interwoven in the whole story, and you just didn't know it, it almost seems as if the very climax of the book was strong and cool as hell. The book wasn't bad but it was one of those books that tries to hard and uses cheap tricks to make it seem as something it is not.

One of my biggest problems happened to be with the characters. It seemed almost as though the author tries to plot you against each one and even more so with every little thing she reveals about them. It seems every in every contemporary I read one of the biggest plots is teens living in an obscure place no else gives a flying fuck about and they are all obsessed with sex and hating each other and gossip, they all are people from a little town full of dramatic stories and drama. Not my cup of tea, and I don't even like tea.