![]() ![]() That's the problem with Flip against most of the other YA novels I have read. Alex, unfortunately, doesn't, and it becomes less a story about identity, and merely a story about being in someone else's body for a while and shutting yourself off from the world while you attempt to get back into your own body. Most stories like these allow the main character to actually learn something, even if it is just to appreciate life and the people around you more. It is for this very reason that I didn't feel like Alex learned anything at all. Here he is given the opportunity to exist as someone who actually has a life and more than one friend, but he's so hellbent on going back that he doesn't embrace the very opportunity, even before he learned the reason for his current situation and was given something to look forward to. ![]() Alex, as I mentioned before and we're led to believe, didn't have much going for him. If I were to suddenly wake up one day as someone else, sure I'd freak out at first, but there would come a time where I would have to embrace who I had become, stop panicking, and work on a solution while still keeping the person I was in alive. I know the story is supposed to be about Alex and him attempting to get back to his own body, but I feel wholly unfulfilled. Even when he was caught by police doing something unspeakably creepy, his parents simply suggested therapy and Alex said no. This kid was popular, an athlete, a son, a brother, but none of these things Flip had in his life were even the slightest obstacle for Alex. Cricket coaches never raised an eyebrow, his parents ignored him acting differently, his sister accepted the changing dynamic of their relationship, his friends at school (we knew Flip was popular but never really met his friends) didn't even question him. Flip had things going for him before he was inhabited by Alex, and all that shut down and everyone was apparently okay with it. And, to be honest, I was much more interested in Flip's life than Alex's. Alex-as-Flip was too unbothered by Flip's life for all but one chapter of the book, so we never got a sense of what Flip was like. We met Flip's best friend and his two girlfriends, but were never given the opportunity to flesh them out. Pdf flip review series#Characters were going in and out in a series of pointless subplots. It's almost as if this book had no set structure. Of course I feel bad judging him of that, because I mostly sit on the Internet and interact (albeit, much more amicably) with my family on a daily basis, but that's not something I want thrown into a book about identity. Alex went to school as Flip a couple times, but most days he was just psychoFlip so we had to watch him sit on the Internet and interact pointedly with his family. I was expecting there to be more on Alex coming to terms on being Flip before finding a way to become Alex again coping with his current life while also working towards his old life. It kept me up all night reading, and I was excited to pick it back up once I could properly keep my eyes open the next day. ![]() I did, honestly, enjoy the beginning of this book, probably until about halfway through. Ok, that was more harsh than I intended this review to be. I don't want to give myself too much credit here, so I'll give some of that predictability credit to the author, Martyn Bedford, for writing a book so linear that I could see the ending from a couple chapters in. It's like every time something was built up, I already knew what was going to happen. I read the Skinjacker trilogy earlier this year, so the big "reveal" as to why Alex's psyche was in Flip's body seemed derived. I don't want to give myself too much credit here, so I'll give some of that predictability credit to the author, Martyn Bedford, for writing a I feel pretty bad giving this book such a low rating, so once I've had more time to think about it I will probably bump it up, at most, a star. I feel pretty bad giving this book such a low rating, so once I've had more time to think about it I will probably bump it up, at most, a star. ![]()
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