XGeneration: You Don't Know Me Review (I Didn't Finish The Book)

Today I’m going to review a book that I couldn’t finish. This book is XGeneration: You Don’t Know Me by Brad Magnarella.

I didn’t finish this book so I can’t really give a good synopsis of it, but it’s mostly about these two teens that are just starting high school. It’s set in the 1980s and they are discovering that they have powers, or something like that.

This book just dragged on and on and on and on… The writing was good and that’s the only thing that kept me reading for as long as I did. I only got twenty-five percent of the way through this book, but in all that time not much of anything noteworthy happened. Brad Magnarella focused way too much on their day to day life.

I thought the characters were interesting, but I definitely thought Scott was more interesting than Janis. She almost seemed ridiculous. She loved sports, which means she should be kind of tough, but she acted like such a scared little baby at times.

I really was drawn to this book because of the powers it advertised, but barely anything was mentioned or figured out about those powers by the time I stopped reading. The reviews for this book kept mentioning that if you loved X-Men you would love this book, so I was convinced I would love it. I was very disappointed.

A smaller thing that kind of grated on me is how Brad Magnarella kept mentioning girl’s chests when he described them. Okay, I can totally understand that when it’s in Scott’s POV, being a guy, he would mention this when describing the looks of a girl, but Janis wouldn’t have thought about it. Since the author is a guy, I could understand why he would mention this, but there are way more that you could describe to give readers a picture of what is going on or how people look without this. Really this didn’t happen often, but by the second time it mildly annoyed me.

I do really love the cover of this book, though.