Flick

by Abigail Tarttelin

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This 2.5 coffee mugs review was first published on Latte Nights Reviews.

Flick is a good story of a fifteen-year-old that has been dealt with a black card but he keeps thriving everyday to make it through.

It’s really hard for me to connect with male POV’s, which I have stated before and this is one of those books. I believe that if Flick had been in Rainbow’s POV, I may have enjoyed it a lot. Like I said above, this is a good story that I just enjoyed and I wish it had been a little bit more fast paced than it was. At times, lots of pages would go by without any interaction and that usually leads to me DNF’ing a book but I really wanted to give this book a try.

Flick is a very complicated character that was hard to like. He is only fifteen years old and he is pretty much wasting his youth. There were times where I completely forgot he was fifteen because the stuff that he does so early on age had me double checking his age quite a few times. I mean, there are teens these days that do what he does, I get that but it was just so hard to get into his head because he was so conflicted over a lot of aspects of his life, which is understandable, I know. Then he meets Rainbow and it is like love at first sight. I would say for both but Rainbow’s emotions kind of lacked through the story, which is why I would have loved to read her point of view or at least alternating between the two.

I really loved Rainbow’s character, primarily because she really didn’t want to be with Flick if he was going to keep going back to the drugs and I give props to her for being strong in her decision and actually mean it, which got Flick to be scared but he still went back to it. I saw myself in Rainbow, I connected with Rainbow in so many ways. I believe if there had been more parts where Rainbow was featured, we could have really understood her even more and liked her even more. I disliked Flick’s girl friends…a lot. I tried liking them but I would just roll my eyes at them and just wanted them out of the book.

The story picked up by part three (it is divided in five parts) and I was enjoying myself but then it started falling and falling but I kept thinking it would be better. The ending fell entirely flat, like a heart-line when the heart is dead. I couldn’t believe the story had ended the way it did, which threw me off a bit.

The writing, though. I really like Abigail’s writing. It is so detailed and it has this sort of elegance to it. I would really liked to read a book by her on a girl’s point of view. I would buy that in an instant! Abigail is a good writer, for sure. But I believe exploring other areas and having the characters do interactions, will help us learn about them and maybe even connect with them.