Casey's Reviews > I'll Stop the World

While I enjoyed the overall premise of this book I couldn't get past what seemed like cookie cutter characters and not enough plot driving the novel.

My first major complaint is that there were too many POV characters. It felt half of the characters could be cut out and the parts that needed plot could have been moved to interludes. We would meander with characters who are not essential to the plot because I think the author was trying to build red herrings. The characters didn't seem to talk or act like real people and instead do or say things to cause drama or try and spark some empathy with those characters.

Because we were jumping to all of these characters POVs the plot was slow to move along. It took 100 pages to get to the inciting incident. I was honestly ready to give the book up, and probably would have had I not been reading it for a bookclub.

I gave it two stars because although I did not enjoy it I could see that perhaps other people would. It just wasn't for me.