Teen Spirit

I'm utterly disappointed, this book was meh and I was absolutely bored throughout it. There were little dashes where I was entertained but then those moments would flicker away, not going to there full potential. Nothing exciting or scary happened, I wasn't sitting on the edge of my seat. And the romance, what romance? It was absolutely boring and there was nothing romantic about it. There was no development for it. At first I thought it was just the first 50 pages, the world building, for why it was boring...but then I got deeper into the book and nothing was happening. I feel like something was holding back the author when it came to the supernatural part of the book or maybe it was just her style of writing I didn't like. Where she gave glimpses of things that can't be explained and then doesn't go deeper into those things. Like Julie can see auras and has very symbolic dreams but they don't really go into explaining why she has these gifts, just leads on where they make you think "could this be why?". Honestly it was just silly watching her make the same mistake over and over again. I get it, everyone handles grief in there own way. But you'd think she would know not to mess with an Ouija board. Overall this was very lackluster and I didn't really connect with the characters. It's a simple read but at one point I wanted to quit the book all together. I was hopeful things would get exciting....I knew I was going to be wrong.