Review ~ Malorie Blackman - Boys Don't Cry

Review - Malorie Blackman - Boys Don't Cry
Released : 28th October 2010 (uk)
Started : 6th January 2010
Finished : 7th January 2010
Plot : 3.5/5
Cover : 4/5
Page Turner : 3/5
Characters : 3/5
Ending : 4/5
Over-all Rating -
 

The Blurb -
This is the explosively page-turning new novel for teenagers from the author of the award-winning "Noughts and Crosses" sequence. You're about to receive your A-level results and then a future of university and journalism awaits. But the day they're due to arrive your old girlfriend Melanie turns up unexpectedly ...with a baby ...You assume Melanie's helping a friend, until she nips out to buy some essentials, leaving you literally holding the baby ...Malorie's dramatic new novel will keep you on the edge of your seat right to the final page.
My Review -
Ok l want to start this review by saying there isn't anything really terrible with this book, there just isn't anything amazing and at no point was l struggling to put this down. It's just not that sort of book and after the blurb you kind of expect a bit more than what you get! Saying that I am glad l have read this but can't help feeling if l read it a few years back when l was younger (l am 18) then l would of enjoyed this even more.
The writing isn't amazing, its pretty simple and at some points l would say its quite poor with very simple sentences which ruins the communication between two characters. For instance you know when you feel a sentence could be written in such a better way? l felt that many times. Likewise a few things this book deals with would be perfect for someone younger but for me how they were written in the book felt very emotionless, towards the end the way it was written got to me so l found the things which should be quite sad and should of made the reader feel something, didn't make me feel anything. 
At sometimes this book contradicted itself, at one point a character was mean't to be a person who Dante didn't get on with then 5 minutes later they are having a heart to heart, l just didn't get it! Once this had happened l was more fussy and picked up on other things which got to me. The unrealistic parts in this book annoyed me. If a life changing thing happened would you just carry on like nothing happened? Well characters in this book did and seemed to with ease.  I then got a bit frustrated with how the baby (l think around 2) seemed to be able to talk so well and understand a lot, the things the baby said l felt they wouldn't ever say. 
It's definitely a book that you could read if you find your distracted a lot and need an easy read as its quite easy to put down and come back to whenever. 
Overall - I wouldn't buy this book and probably won't read another by this author but l found this book ok and wouldn't want to have left it unfinished! 
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My Next Read :
Unearthly - Cynthia Hand
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