Helpful Score: 1
For someone familiar with Stephenie Myer's Twilight stories from seeing the films, SWITCHED read too much like a Twilight saga knock-off for me to enjoy it.
Though not the best, the writing shows promise, so I'm open to more from Amanda Hocking, but this had way too many scenes that were ripped right from the Twilight story: boy visits girl through her bedroom window; damsel in distress; car ride running away from her family/home because the bad guys are trying to get her; trolls have different abilities; not to mention it's just trolls instead of vampires.
I don't think the story was original enough to stand on its own merit.
I also got bored with the juvenile pussy-footing around each other for 300 pages. The young adult, inexperienced emotional angst gets old for me. It really made me crave to read about adult relationships, but I'm sure this is great for adolescents, teens and young adults.
SWITCHED was very predictable; nothing new here. I give it a C+.
Though not the best, the writing shows promise, so I'm open to more from Amanda Hocking, but this had way too many scenes that were ripped right from the Twilight story: boy visits girl through her bedroom window; damsel in distress; car ride running away from her family/home because the bad guys are trying to get her; trolls have different abilities; not to mention it's just trolls instead of vampires.
I don't think the story was original enough to stand on its own merit.
I also got bored with the juvenile pussy-footing around each other for 300 pages. The young adult, inexperienced emotional angst gets old for me. It really made me crave to read about adult relationships, but I'm sure this is great for adolescents, teens and young adults.
SWITCHED was very predictable; nothing new here. I give it a C+.
