Even when the narration does stick with Laila, she’s tough to follow as a character. Occasionally, though, the narration drifts away from Laila to describe things that Laila wouldn’t know and wouldn’t be perceptive enough to remark upon even if she did these segments, while well written, are jarringly out of place. I’ll probably never know.” Seven Ways We Lie is a phenomenal novel that perfectly balances seven POVs from seven awesome, diverse characters whose stories interweave in fascinating ways.įor the most part, the narration is third person limited, with Laila as the POV character. Hannah basically walks around with a billboard on her forehead that says, “I LOVE YOU, LAILA” and Laila is like, “Huh? I wonder what that sign means. Her friends broadcast their motives to her, and Laila goes out of her way to misunderstand absolutely everything. It’s hard to understand where she’s coming from emotionally because she is absolutely clueless and most of her decisions are therefore based on nothing. Final Draft should have been a home run for me, but it just… never engaged me. Riley Redgate is an awesome writer, and as a rule I love stories about writers and fangirls. I really, really wanted to like Final Draft. Review: What’d I think? Also minor spoilers Nazarenko is not nearly as easy-to-please as her predecessor, and Laila finds herself working to distraction to impress her impossible-to-impress new mentor. Madison gets unexpectedly hit by a car and takes an extended leave of absence from school, he is replaced by Nadiya Nazarenko, an award-winning novelist. She spends most of her time working on her stories, but she’s too self-conscious to share her writing with anyone but her creative writing teacher, Mr.
High school senior Laila is eats, breathes, and sleeps sci-fi. It’s not nearly as good as her earlier books and ultimately I’m glad I found it at a library instead of a bookstore. Unfortunately, I didn’t like it all that much. I finally found it at my new library, and by that point the anticipation was high.
I checked multiple bookstores and multiple libraries (across multiple states!) and even failed to find it at the Kenyon bookstore. Weirdly, I had a really hard time finding it. I have extra fondness for Redgate because she graduated from Kenyon College, which has produced everyone from John Green to Ransom Riggs to Allison Janney to my sister.įinal Draft has been on my to-read list since before it came out. I sought out her other book, Seven Ways We Lie, and liked that one even more.
A couple years ago, I randomly picked up Riley Redgate’s novel Noteworthyand loved it.
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