Helpful Score: 2
If one was to distill literary mediocrity, it would boil down to two things: the Twilight series and Kristin Hannah's writing. Why has Hannah not been sued for lifting the plot and characters from "Beaches?" Seriously, it contained *everything* that book did. This is more than comparison; it's plagiarism. Although I cried out of sorrow at "Beaches," I cried for wasting my life after reading this trash. The only good part of it is that one of them dies at the end.
This meritless waste of paper contained every element of every bad Lifetime movie you've ever seen with the exception of an eating disorder. I'm sure if Hannah had churned out another 100 pages, Marah would have developed one. I certainly wanted to vomit after the friends professed their friendship over and over and over and over again. Most of this book is taken up with the sentence, "We're best friends, aren't we?" The two just randomly chose each other as "best friends;" the readers are reminded of the depth and intensity of their friendship every time they ever spoke to one another, not because the writing showed that, but because the girls would not freakin' stop talking about how they were friends. When you have to try that hard, girls
Even before I started, I told my husband exactly what this book would contain and the order in which the plot elements would emerge. I nailed them all. Firefly Lane is formulaic, unoriginal, and just plain stupid. In a word: banal.
This meritless waste of paper contained every element of every bad Lifetime movie you've ever seen with the exception of an eating disorder. I'm sure if Hannah had churned out another 100 pages, Marah would have developed one. I certainly wanted to vomit after the friends professed their friendship over and over and over and over again. Most of this book is taken up with the sentence, "We're best friends, aren't we?" The two just randomly chose each other as "best friends;" the readers are reminded of the depth and intensity of their friendship every time they ever spoke to one another, not because the writing showed that, but because the girls would not freakin' stop talking about how they were friends. When you have to try that hard, girls
Even before I started, I told my husband exactly what this book would contain and the order in which the plot elements would emerge. I nailed them all. Firefly Lane is formulaic, unoriginal, and just plain stupid. In a word: banal.
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