Palatul de hârtie by Erin Watt
Drama, drama, and more drama. It isn’t surprising, but it does get rather repetitive.
This book isn’t one of the best I’ve read, not even close. It’s mediocre at best. It is an easy book to read, even fun at times. The characters are incredibly flawed and their perspective on the world is dismal.
Ella seems to be getting dumber by the minute. While she’s together with Reed, all she thinks about it sex. We get it, you’re a horny teenager, but still. Not once does she seem to think about anything else other than Reed or his case. It is so frustrating. She is so superficial. She hates everyone in her school just because a few people make fun of her. All she wants is to have sex with Reed, most of the action in the novel is about her planning to lose her virginity to him.
She measures her worth completely based on her sexual experiences. She only cares about herself and her boyfriend. It is such a toxic relationship and it is so disgusting to watch. She does have some outbursts that would make you believe that she isn’t one dimensional, but really she is.
Once Steve enters her life, she can’t handle being cared for by a father figure. After all, what man in his right mind would let his teenage daughter sleep every night in the same house with her boyfriend. It is absurd how Ella is constantly frustrated by the limits her father sets on her relationship with Reed. To be honest, I found Steve to be one of the most normal characters in the book, up until the end obviously.
Reed is consumed by rage and thoughts of his future life in jail. As I guess is normal in the situation, but it’s incredibly annoying to watch him and Ella get together. There doesn’t seem to be anything that actually cares about anyone but himself in his soul. He is such an irritating character, both he and Ella are probably some of the most idiotic characters I’ve ever seen.
I wish Easton had been more present in this novel, it would have made the scenes with Ella and Reed more bearable. Val was stuck in her head, constantly thinking over scenes with Wade, making her somewhat absent in the story. Everyone else other than Reed, Ella, and Steve were irrelevant in the story.
I want to read the next book, if only to finish the series, but I don’t recommend reading these to anyone anymore. If you want to read books that aren’t perfectly written and have incredibly one-sided characters, then this is the series for you.
