I read Tilt as the February 2018 pick in my online book club, The Reading Cove.
I'm sorry to say it...but that's the one and only reason I finished it. And at 602 pages, it was almost akin to pure torture. :(
The inside cover says "Ages 14 up" and I felt every. word. of. that. I know plenty of adults are on a steady diet of YA novels, but with just a few exceptions (Divergent by Veronica Roth, Legend by Marie Lu, and Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans) they usually bore the crap out of me. :-( Too shallow, too much like reading about green tomatoes that think they're ripe. I find it to be a total waste of time.
The best thing Tilt had going for it, IMO, was its verse style. But unfortunately, the story and substance didn't fulfill the depth that its poetic style aimed to provide.
Mikayla? A yawnable cliche. Shane? He was the most layered POV and storyline, though it still managed to feel watered down and trite by the end. And Harley? She just gave Mikayla a run for her money in the yawning department.
So, all in all, this may be good for teenagers and their parents, but I'm sure there must be other (even YA) novels, poetically rendered or not, that explore well worn topics like teen pregnancy, homosexuality, HIV and date rape with much more depth than this one does.
For me Tilt's a C+. But I am looking forward to our book club's discussion, which I'm sure I'll enjoy much more than I did the book!
I'm sorry to say it...but that's the one and only reason I finished it. And at 602 pages, it was almost akin to pure torture. :(
The inside cover says "Ages 14 up" and I felt every. word. of. that. I know plenty of adults are on a steady diet of YA novels, but with just a few exceptions (Divergent by Veronica Roth, Legend by Marie Lu, and Michael Vey by Richard Paul Evans) they usually bore the crap out of me. :-( Too shallow, too much like reading about green tomatoes that think they're ripe. I find it to be a total waste of time.
The best thing Tilt had going for it, IMO, was its verse style. But unfortunately, the story and substance didn't fulfill the depth that its poetic style aimed to provide.
Mikayla? A yawnable cliche. Shane? He was the most layered POV and storyline, though it still managed to feel watered down and trite by the end. And Harley? She just gave Mikayla a run for her money in the yawning department.
So, all in all, this may be good for teenagers and their parents, but I'm sure there must be other (even YA) novels, poetically rendered or not, that explore well worn topics like teen pregnancy, homosexuality, HIV and date rape with much more depth than this one does.
For me Tilt's a C+. But I am looking forward to our book club's discussion, which I'm sure I'll enjoy much more than I did the book!
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