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Review: Amy & Roger's Epic Detour

Amy & Roger's Epic Detour Amy & Roger's Epic Detour by Morgan Matson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Wtf????!!!??????!??!?!?!?!???????????????
WHAT WAS THAT ENDING!??
I thought I had like 15 more pages to read... and then it just ends!? Well I guess, now that I think about it, it was starting to get a little boring. Still. That was not an ending. I was so excited to get to know more about Charlie and what happens with him and how his and Amys relationship changes or whatever.
What. Eves.

So! Amy and Rogers Epic Deture, eh? A lot of hype around this one. Lucky for me, I have this philosophy that goes "Always have low expectations and you will (almost) never be disappointed." This way of thinking has maximized my enjoyment of many things that I otherwise would not have liked that much due to over-hyped-ness or just the media in question being kinda bad.

Anyway yeah, A&RED was decent. I feel like I liked it more at the beginning when I was like OOHH PICTURES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But the novelty has rubbed off now that I have finished the book. I dunno, I guess I am just feeling sour because of the shit ending. For pretty much the whole book I was really enjoying myself, having a good time, listening to the same music as the characters.

Oh, did somebody mention the playlists!?!??!?!?!

So in this book, if you do not know, there are many music playlists that the characters made and listened to during their road trip. There also happens to be a Spotify playlist (https://play.spotify.com/user/1259456...) that has (nearly) all the songs, in order, from the book. Something that Matson did horribly wrong with this book was the spacing of the playlists. I would not even be halfway done one playlist when there would be a new one, so I would have to stop reading, and dilly dally while I finished the current playlist I was on. During this dilly-dallying time I chose to just read another book. Another annoying thing was because I am not premium on Spotify I could not listen to the songs in order on my phone or tablet, so I had to carry around my laptop with me whenever I was reading. This became such a nuisance that it made me not want to read because I had to get this whole set up going. So yeah, I lasted 195 pages then I just stoped listening to the music. This last bit is not Matsons fault, but it still annoyed me.

So yeah, read it if you want. Definitely not Matsons best though. This was the last of Matsons books I had left to read, and I can now say that each book published just got better than the last.

Amy and Rogers Epic Detour--3/5 stars
Second Chance Summer---4/5 stars
Since You've Been Gone-5/5 stars

(Disclaimer-Quotation marks, apostrophes, semi-colons and colons are not working on my computer right now so this review was written without the use of any of these.)

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