 Hello everybody, E here welcome back to another book review. Unfortunately, it is yet and I know two this week I apologize, but sometimes that's just how the cookie crumbles. This is another negative review Just tell you straight off Neverworld Wake by Marisha Pacell This hurts my heart to say one of my favorite books my number three spot for my favorite novels of all time is night film by By Marisha Pacell. I really love special topics in calamity physics also, which was her first book This one I have no idea what happened here It almost feels like being a Stephen King fan Who someone who has read his share of trunk novels because Stephen King will tell you in like in blaze He tells you right off the bat that this is a trunk novel. You're not getting something new This feels like a trunk novel This feels like something that it was packed away that the author didn't have any faith in because it didn't go anywhere And didn't have anything else to publish so they threw it out there Now I'm not saying that's the case. I'm not really trying to disrespect her because she's an amazing author The problem here is this book goes absolutely nowhere. There is nothing interesting that happens in this book If you go into the synopsis, which I read before and I don't usually but I want to know what I was getting into It does say that there's There is something you know supernatural something fantastic that happens to the to the young adults in this book and Right off the bat. This book isn't bad because it's young adult I didn't I didn't care for anything about this book and that had absolutely nothing to do with the young adult aspect The problem was the characters are so empty and vacuous. They're just but they're it's not in a villainous way There's just nothing interesting about them and I thought to to one extent. I mean this book felt like The author was just checking off an Inclusivity checklist because there's a gay character in here but the only reason we know he's gay is because she tells us flat out this person is gay and moving on and That's it. It's like, okay, so you checked off that box. Let's keep moving. There's a nerdy character in here Is it everything that you will find in your typical, you know, like basically what you're dealing with here Scoot this cast of Scooby-Doo is what you're dealing with to a tee Now that I think about it and I think about it even more after I wrote my review It feels like they should all have gotten in the mystery van and driven off but the problem is the focus of this book is a Maybe somebody that committed suicide didn't actually commit suicide kind of deal But that wasn't the focus that I was looking for it's called neverworld wake not the possible murder of so-and-so And neverworld wake it the the neverworld wake It's a it's a place kind of a reality an alternate reality It's just our reality that just keeps on happening over and over again. It's Groundhog day or that Tom Cruise sci-fi movie. It's been done so many times over and over again And she does absolutely nothing new with it until the end But in the middle of this they bring up a book called the dark house of elsewhere bend first off That's an amazing title. I'd read I'd read the hell out of that book In in this book. It says that that book is 1394 pages. This book is 324 pages It's also about half as long as both of her other books And it feels that way too with the character development and the story and the plot progression everything It just feels rushed and you know slapped together but with With this one the book in the the book inside the book the dark house of elsewhere bend That's what I signed up for that's the the crazy weirdness that I signed up for especially in like in books like night Films she does the same kind of thing where she she dumps into this whole fictional world jumps not dumps She jumps in this whole fictional world and she owns it Like the all the Stanislaus Cordova stuff if you read that I don't want to give you any spoilers We're talking about this book, but with this one. She doesn't she doesn't commit It's like they well it's not like they use this book as an instruction manual and This really super cool concept becomes a plot device instead of actually being the story And of course at the end of the book the person that everybody everybody who reads this is gonna know who gets voted for There's not a spoiler everybody who reads this knows how this is going to end And then at the end you get a super brief glimpse of that crazy wacky not wacky Sorry that that other worldly type of thing you get a brief glimpse of it just about 30 pages of it And then it's over So yeah, I waited five years night feels night film came out in 2013. I waited five years for this book and I'm actually upset if you read my Goodreads review That's a little more passionately upset than I am now because I got I was able to get out in the links down there In the doobly-doo. I was able to get all that out in the writing of it, but I'm really I'm really pretty pissed off about it Especially since I made a case of it to just scream on Twitter about how excited I was about it I pre-ordered it. I jumped through all the hoops trying to get everything, you know Putting putting myself out there going I can't write part of this book just to get this crap anyways, so If you've read it, let me know down there And if you have a differing opinion than me, please explain your differing opinion and please don't go. Oh my god I loved it. Tell me why you loved it. Okay, so until next time. I have any you've been you it's been to the book review I'll talk to you guys there. Bye. Bye