Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

So many people seem to love this book, and the premise sounded interesting, so I went in with high expectations. Unfortunately it isn't at all dystopian, but a straight-up romance novel. Not really my thing, but that wasn't even my problem with it. Despite the interesting idea, there's really no plot development to speak of. However, there's so much purple prose and so many metaphors it's like the author took it as a challenge: "Nobody has ever written a novel *entirely* in metaphor and purple prose before. I bet I could do it!" Some excerpts: "His lips his lips his lips his lips his lips. My eyes are fighting not to flutter. My legs have won the right to tremble. My skin is scorched everywhere he's not touching me. His lips are so close to my ear I'm water and nothing and everything and melting into a wanting so desperate it burns as I swallow it down." "Raindrops are my only reminder that clouds have a heartbeat. That I have one, too." "I am a raindrop. My parents emptied their pockets of me and left me to evaporate on a concrete slab." "He's so wrong. He's more wrong than an upside down rainbow." "...my body is in a blender, and I'm made of mush" "My heart is a field of lilies, blooming under a pane of glass, pitter-pattering to life like a rush of raindrops"a "My heart is a stick of butter, melting recklessly on a hot summer day" I know, I know, some of you are thinking these are beautiful, and I'm just a monster who hates beautifully written prose. But as I put it to my daughter just now: "You like sprinkles, right? Sprinkles are pretty, and they taste good. But do you want me dumping the whole huge jar of sprinkles right on top of your ice cream? No, because then you wouldn't appreciate the taste of the sprinkles, and it would ruin your ice cream." This book was buried under so many sprinkles that I never even tasted any ice cream.