Crash Into Me by Albert Borris

Gut Instinct Rating - 2

Characters - 3

Believability for type and topics - 1.5

Similarity to other books - 2

Writing Style - 1

Excitement Factor - 1

Story Line - 2

Title Relevance - 3

Cover art - N/A

Dust Jacket Art - 5

To read or not to read? Not to read. This book was hugely disappointing.

Goodreads users gave this book a 3.77. I think it was more deserving of a 2.28.

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Published in 2009

Pages: 257

Publishing Company: SimonPulse Publishing

Number of books by author: 1 Book

Genre: Young Adult, Realistic Fiction, Romance, Contemporary, Mental Health

Oh, what a snooze. This book was super predictable almost entirely throughout, and was very poorly written. The characters felt very rehearsed. It was almost as if the author took a bunch of suicidal kids of different backgrounds (the smart kid, the attention seeker, the under privileged kid, the gay kid) and then wrote a book about their conquest to end their lives. When you put all of these characters together, it can become very vanilla very quickly. There was hardly any conflict, and the conflict that was present, was resolved in a matter of pages, if not paragraphs.

It was all so unbelievable. The suicide pact is what drew me to this book. That makes sense. That part of this story is believable. But everything else about this book is just so far fetched. The book itself just isn't that unique unless you really hone in on the story line behind Audrey, which I couldn't help but focus on after it was revealed.

The writing style was incredibly choppy, with no true chapter breaks in between each "section." It was all just very "smooshed" together. I really only finished this book out of pure curiosity and stubbornness. The prompt was obviously was enough for me to pick up and purchase the book (however, I would've never just picked this book up out of a line up based on it's cover art or title). But, the story itself just wasn't good enough to carry me through. It was so obvious that no one was actually going to kill themselves during the story, so it became repetitive. It wasn't until Audrey's story was divulged that there was anything intriguing.

I have no idea where the title came from, and quite frankly, I still don't know where it came from. The cover art was perfect for the book.