Where I Belong (Where I Belong, #1)

by Gwendolyn Heasley

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This isn't an awful book, despite my two star rating. But Corrinne is self absorbed and annoying for the first two-thirds of the story. It helps that she tells you up front she's going to be. And that there is character development so she's not so bad by the end. But a largely unlikable main character starts the book off with a base rating of 2 stars.

Then, for my review, I try to think of the things I really liked about the story - the secondary characters or the moments I laughed or that were sweet or the romance... and the thing is, I didn't love any of those things. They weren't bad. But to climb out of a two star default rating they have to be good enough to offset the main character. And these were just fine. So I can't bring myself up bring it up to three stars.

Also it's full of things that annoy me. But I can't stand Adjective Names (Depressing Debbie - Terrified Tabitha) and they're used fairly frequently by the main character to describe her emotional state. Also, she speaks in cliches and over uses acronyms. I've chosen to decide that [a:Gwendolyn Heasley|4077568|Gwendolyn Heasley|http://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/authors/1336080407p2/4077568.jpg] did that as part of Corrinne's characterization and that's not Heasley's writing style. But I still didn't like it. But maybe those things wouldn't bother someone else that much.

So, yeah. Not a bad book. It was just ok.