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'Soulmates' by Holly Bourne --- book review



Goodreads page: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16099393-soulmates
My rating: 3/5


Plot:
Poppy.17 year-old college girl with a cynical attitude and a strong love for banana milkshakes.
Noah.Teenage rock star.Known as a "man whore".Greatest catch in the city of Middletown.
Although these two might not seem like it at first,they happen to be soulmates.However,there's quite a bit of drama brough by that simple fact and it may or may not involve the possibility of the world ending because of them.No pressure.This brings them in the eyes of a secret organisation trying to prevent the end of the world (because who wouldn't),which leads to the two having to choose between ending the world or living their lives without each other.
My thoughts on it:
This is a well known fact about me,but I'll just say it again: romance,especially when in excess,makes me want to roll my eyes.A lot.Which is obviously why I had really really low expectations from this.However,once I opened it and started reading,I thought that I might just end up loving it because of how utterly amazing the main character,Poppy seemed.What can I say,I'm a sucker for cynical,sarcastic character,what can you do about it.However,soon enough,I actually just started strongly disliking this.I wasn't a big fan of how Poppy's panic attacks were portrayed,nor was I a fan of how Noah's depression was simply just mentioned about twice,then everything was magically cured by their "love".
I was frustrated by how cheesy and rushed the romance felt.It was instalove and I hate that.Then everything became a bit of a blur and I just kept rolling my eyes so often that I thought I'd develop some odd affliction because of it.I really wish Holly'd went more into the entire science-y/fatastic element of the story instead of just focusing so much on the cheesy romance and only having a subtle hint of the other side every so often.
I also wish we'd had a bit more of Anita's background and found it a bit silly that there were so many hints of her and Rain maybe having something going on,but not really,that was pretty unnecessary,if you ask me,but still.
I did like some of the other characters a lot and I did,at the end of the day,really enjoy the protagonists,it was just that their interractions felt off.A lot.
The writing style also confused me a little,it was such a stereotypical British language being used that I was really wondering if Holly Bourne was sort of mocking her country,because I have quite a few British friends and they honestly talk nothing like that,so I just sort of felt stuck in an episode of Skins,but that wasn't such a big issues,I guesss.
The ending was the thing that I did sort of like,I appreciated not going with a 'Romeo and Juliet' inspired one,especially after mocking the book (extra points for that),but it also felt a little sily before getting to that point,excuse me for actually expecting deciding if you want to save the world or not to be an easy decision.Call me soulless or whatnot,but that was another eye roll worthy moment.
All things considered,the book was still sort of enjoyable,but it just wasn't my cup of tea.
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