I can think of dozens of ways to improve his introduction, the description of his behaviour, and the reveal. There was no mystery!! He just appeared and behaved like a freak!! Very weirdly described overall, not utilised well. I would've liked some subtlety? Like he just appeared and I was thinking 'what a freaking weirdo why is he advertising companies to his friends, why is he behaving this way.' Any reader with two braincells to rub together could see that Jack (& his family) aren't normal at all. Honestly I cannot find the words to describe my anger at the lack of character development.ġb) JACK. I felt no empathy for her whatsoever, she was severely underdeveloped and lacking in pretty much everything. A flatter and less interesting than a brick wall, as far as characters go. In the epilogue, completely out of the blue, she just seemed to decide she loved Ethan back!!! What!!! That was set up particularly badly, but I'll get to the romance later.ġa) Zoe.

It was just about as subtle as a bag of bricks!! She kept changing her mind with little reasoning, over the course of a few paragraphs!! It was all, 'Ethan is just a friend, Jack is horrible, Jack is mysterious, Jack is gorgeous and I'm dating him, Jack is evil, Jack could never be an android, Jack is an android.' There was no reasoning behind her decisions, no effort made in development whatsoever. And there was no 'development,' particularly with Zoe. This will contain spoilers, though honestly you shouldn't waste any time reading this book, so don't worry about it.ġ) The characters. Was going to give two stars but genuinely couldn't think of any redeemable qualities whatsoever!! so a solid 1/5 from me.

New boy by Bridie Jones