Visions #1
Lisa McMann
January 8th, 2013
Simon Pulse
233 pages
Amazon/Book Depository/B&NIf what you see is what you get, Jules is in serious trouble. The suspenseful first of four books from the New York Times bestselling author of the Wake trilogy.
Jules lives with her family above their restaurant, which means she smells like pizza most of the time and drives their double-meatball-shaped food truck to school. It’s not a recipe for popularity, but she can handle that.
What she can’t handle is the recurring vision that haunts her. Over and over, Jules sees a careening truck hit a building and explode...and nine body bags in the snow.
The vision is everywhere—on billboards, television screens, windows—and she’s the only one who sees it. And the more she sees it, the more she sees. The vision is giving her clues, and soon Jules knows what she has to do. Because now she can see the face in one of the body bags, and it’s someone she knows. Someone she has been in love with for as long as she can remember.
In this riveting start to a gripping series from New York Times bestselling author Lisa McMann, Jules has to act—and act fast—to keep her vision from becoming reality.
Final Destination with enough internal drama to completely overshadow the thrilling parts. That is how I would describe this book. The book blurb is basically the exciting version of when you watch a movie trailer and see all the funny parts of an upcoming comedy. The rest of the book is filled with feelings and a Romeo and Juliet-esque forbidden romance. If you could really even call it a romance. It's really more of Jules screaming, "I love you" at inappropriate times to Sawyer.
There's a lot of annoying sequences in the books. A lot. So many I couldn't possibly list them. I'll hit on the most jarring.
- There are two cases where the author decides on a footnote, only for that footnote to demand you look something up. You know what, with that attitude, I'd not care what a wenus was if I didn't already know.
-At one point there is a quazi-masturbation sequence. Or maybe it was actually masturbation. It was very colorfully written and there were some sparks and a buildup. Generally showers do not make me feel that way unless something else is going on.
The amount of the usage of "Oh my dog!" At one point, the character said God and I wasn't sure if it was a typo or if she was really upset and forgot to change the word back to dog, or if it was just an oversight of some sort.
- Despite obligations and being grounded, Jules is allowed to wander about whimsically and take off school for no reason. I hate when YA books do this. Sometimes, just sometimes, kids have overarching issues. They can't go be creepy stalkers trying to Early Edition away other people's problems.
The actual crash happens way before the end of the book. There isn't a crash, then a chapter to wrap things up. There is a crash and then another flood of feels. It got to the point where the crash was just a secondary plot point. The real plot point being the forbidden love (still not sure if its mutual?) between the two characters and their family drama. The family drama ended up being way over the top. Like, Veronica Mars style over the top family drama.
The cliffhanger at the end of the book was ridiculous and uncalled for.
Sadly, a book with this much promise should have been much better.
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