Review: The Truth Project
Due to my exams coming up soon, like right after New Year's and college courses being extremely tough, I haven't been able to read as much as I'd like to lately. I kid you not, this book wasn't even on my list, but I had the E-pub and I needed something to read while I was working out at the gym, so yeah. I'm weird like that. And I've been getting into verse novels lately, so.
Seventeen-year-old Cordelia Koenig was sure of many things going into her last year of high school. For one, she wasn’t going to stress over the senior project all her peers were dreading—she’d just use the same find-your-roots genealogy idea that her older sister used for hers. Secondly, she’d put all that time spent not worrying about the project toward getting reacquainted with former best friend and longtime crush Kodiak Jones who, conveniently, gets assigned as Cordelia’s partner.
All she has to do is mail in her DNA sample, write about her ancestry results and breeze through the rest of senior year. Done, done and done.
But when Cordelia’s GeneQuest results reveal that her father is not the man she thought he was but a stranger who lives thousands of miles away, Cordelia realizes she isn’t sure of anything anymore—not the mother who lied, the life she was born into or the girl staring back at her in the mirror.
If your life began with a lie, how can you ever be sure of what’s true?
QUICK THOUGHTS AND REVIEW: 3.9/5, CLICHE, BUT HAD SOME INTERESTING VIEWPOINTS.
Possible Trigger Tags:
1. Alcoholism
2. Infidelity
3. Mentions of abortion
4. Mentions of teenage pregnancy
5. Underage drinking
6. Underage drug use
7. Mentions of sexual content
WHAT DID I FEEL ABOUT THE BOOK'S:
1. Writing Quality: The whole book is basically a novel in verse. I'm not usually a fan of poetry, I haven't really expressed my disdain for it before, but I definitely do not have the energy to analyze poetry and find out the hidden meaning behind it and I can't just read poetry for the sake of reading because my mind WILL analyze it. I just don't possess that energy anymore. Anyways, I do enjoy novels in verse because the statements are short, to the point, yet they always convey more meanings than actually possible/permissible in a single statement in a novel. Also they make a novel particularly more interesting. Like I read The Ghosts of Rose Hill back in June/July-ish, I don't remember when but that too was a novel in verse and it was pretty good.
2. Character Development: The whole book is basically built on Cordelia, though I do feel like there isn't much character development around her? She kind of gives me a very loner type vibe. And I think that despite Cordelia's character development about accepting her non-biological father as her own, Cordelia seems like a very bland character if I may say so. Also about her feelings towards Kodiak, I'm very conflicted because there isn't any reason mentioned as to why she likes him. I just find her to be very eh.
3. Couldn't put it down- Ness: 7/10 to be honest. There isn't much interesting to say about this.
4. Intellectual Depth: I think the main point of the story was finding yourself and where you belong in a family. Sometimes it does seem like you don't belong somewhere and oftentimes it is true. But someone, somewhere out there will accept you for who you are, even if you're not related to blood. Sometimes, all that matters is that you've stayed together through thick and thin and you've seen all the ugly parts and yet, when you could simply walk away, you could choose to stay.
5. Plot: Back when I had heard about the book in Jan via Goodreads, I thought that the plot seemed pretty interesting from a standpoint. But it has been almost 11 months since then, and I have read a lot of books and I do think that the plot is too cliche from a particular standpoint. Too Wattpad-ish, if you know what I mean. The storyline's also pretty much following a lot of cliches including the characters so I guess there's nothing more to say about it.
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