♥ Sarah's Reviews > The Thing About the Truth

The thing about this book was that it lacked any real conflict.

The big lie and the catastrophic outcome of Face it Down Day was a huge letdown.

The "conflict" was so stupid that it was laughable, and kind of offensive. Basically, Kelsey and Isaac meet as new kids on their first day at a public high school (hooray for originality!). They start off as frenemies, and then turn into BF-GF (definitely haven’t seen that before!). The narrative switches back and forth from Kelsey’s POV from "BEFORE" and then with the "AFTERMATH." Both characters alternate in their narrations, so you get a glimpse of what's going on in their heads.

Like I said, the buildup was fantastic, and the story started off great. I just couldn't get on board though, with the empty dialogue, unnecessary scenes, filler characters, and the LAME outcome.

Honestly, I didn't mind that the characters were a bit flat and sometimes one dimensional. I just wanted to get to the meat of story; I wanted a huge grand revelation with something more than a punch here, and a hair-pull there. I wanted chaos, consequences, and the fall out to just be more. But in the end, the fact that I didn't really care about what happened to the characters, kind of already suggests this book was just a huge disappointment. Then to add insult to injury, the whole "conflict" was easily resolved in a couple paragraphs. But then again, there was barely any "conflict" to begin with. Ugh. You see my dilemma?

Even if I was younger, I probably wouldn't have liked this book.
Truth of the matter is: this book needed more meat – real substance; sadly, there wasn't any here.