Review : Don’t Even Think About It by Sarah Mlynowski
Don’t Even Think About It by Sarah Mlynowski
Pages : 336
Genre : YA, Contemporary, Supernatural
Series : Don’t Even Think About It, book 1
My Rating : 4/5
About the Book :
Since we’ve kept our freakish skill a secret, we can sit next to the class brainiac and ace our tests. We can dump our boyfriends right before they dump us. We know what our friends really think of our jeans, our breath, our new bangs. We always know what’s coming. Some of us will thrive. Some of us will crack. None of us will ever be the same. So stop obsessing about your ex. We’re always listening.
My Thoughts :
I had read Sarah Mlynowski before, both her adult and YA fiction, and always ended feeling satisfied by her stories. I feel like she always has fun ideas and a very entertaining way to pull stories together, with a just enough heart and humor to make it easy to relate to.
Don’t Even Think About It was no different. The idea of a whole group of ordinary school kids all getting the same power is great, and completely changes the game from the usual story featuring a single hero. The execution is also very clever; I thought I would get bothered by the “we” narrating the story, but in fact, it worked very well. The author used it in little doses : most of the narration felt like a usual third person narration, and from time to time the “we” would chime in with some humorous thought or intriguing foreshadowing. I quickly fell in love with the idea.
I also enjoyed the characters. There was a great cast of them, with different personalities who dealt with their new powers in many different ways. The dynamics between them were also interesting; while their mind-reading caused a lot of problems, I was happy to see it also created a sort of camaraderie that felt realistic enough.
I appreciated the story to the conclusion and was sort of sad to see it ends. While the story doesn’t leave unanswered important questions, I spend a lot of time post-reading imagining what would happen next for the characters, what the possibilities were with their powers. There’s a few hints in the book that these powers may grow to become more; Goodreads tells me this is a series, and I am definitely hoping this is true!
Don’t Even Think About It is available for sale now! Thanks to Delacorte for generously providing a digital copy of the book for this review.
This sounds so cute!