The Lost A Novel

I wanted to like this so bad, it sounded so good and interesting and different... and it wasn't. None of these things. First of all, Lauren is really annoying. She's stupid and ignorant and not very well written. Her relationship with Peter was really weird and came out of nowhere. I mean, usually authors offer at least some kind of "romantic interaction", aside from stating that the characters find each other hot. But this relationship had nothing of that sort whatsoever. I thought they were still in the "they're hot but I'm not sure I actually like them" phase and then they were suddenly kissing. Also, I just love it when no one ever explains anything. Suspense is a thing, I know, but it only works if everything gets explained. Usually I love descriptions, I love worldbuilding, but the descriptions in this were always in the middle of a dialogue or another important scene. And I don't mean descriptions of other characters, I mean the surroundings. Also, this edition is simply awful. I'm generally very careful and I like my books looking brand new, but this cover just randomly ripped whilst opening the book and the spine creased and broke immediately.