Ade's Reviews > Over You

Hmph. This book basically pissed me the heck off, which sucks because I thought I was off my recent streak of bad book. I had so been looking forward to this book, and I bought it the day it came out, but within the first 8 pages, I disliked this book.
My Issues:
1: The book is in third person. This wouldn't be such an issue if it didn't keep CHANGING characters without any warning. One minute it'll be Max, then the next Taylor, then Ben, and then whoever else the McLaughlin felt like throwing in there. It was confusing and aggravating and it made things much more difficult than they needed to be.
2: The instalove. Ben meets Max and within 5 minutes, he's fallen in love with her. Really, McLaughlin? Really?
3: How unrealistic everything is. (view spoiler)[ Max has this huge couture wardrobe and is permitted to run around New York at all hours of the night. Her parents have no idea what she's doing, and they don't really care enough to ask. The part about her wardrobe really annoyed me. Basically Max's mother works for a newspaper or a magazine, and Teen Vogue happens to be in the same building. So when Max drops her mom off at work, she also sneaks onto the Teen Vogue floor and steals borrows clothing. It's even more annoying because McLaughlin just brushes it off like it's no big deal. Not only is Max breaking and entering, she's STEALING. That is a VERY big deal. (hide spoiler)]
4: How is Max able to afford all the things that she does in the book? Kickboxing lessons? Spinning lessons? Other miscellaneous items that she buys for her clients? From what I gathered, she doesn't charge her clients, so how exactly is she funding her business?
5: Max. (view spoiler)[ The story starts off talking about how Max dropped out of school because her boyfriend dumped her. Really? Where were her parents for this? What parent would let their child drop out of high school because their boyfriend broke up with them? Max came off as this know it all who had all the answers, and she's sitting there advising all of her clients on how to get over a break up, when she can't even handle hers. Fast forward to when she see's her ex-boyfriend in New York and decides that she needs to have her "moment" in order to get over him. Can anyone guess how her "moment" ends? If you guessed "With Max kissing the guy and going home with him," you are correct! So basically, Max preached to all of her clients that no matter how much an ex apologizes, you should never ever go back to them because they are scum, but when her ex apologizes, she falls into his arms and forgets that he dumped her like she was last weeks trash. She only stands up for herself when she realizes that she was his back-up booty call. After she realized this, she had her "moment" and left him standing there. It's all just so.. unrealistic. Max is basically the biggest hypocrite ever, but everyone in this book seems willing to ignore every lie she tells and everything she does to contradict what she says. Max is all about telling her clients what she "stands for," but she doesn't stand for anything. (hide spoiler)] I wouldn't have minded Max or any of the things she and her friends did, if there had been any kind of message behind the book. But there wasn't. It was just Max running around with unlimited funds doing whatever she wanted to with total disregard for anyone else's feelings.

I would NOT recommend this book to anyone, because the message it does send out isn't a good one. The only thing this book taught me, is that it's okay to hurt and lie to people as long as you *kind of* apologize for it afterwards.