Hi friends and happy Wednesday! I hope you’re all doing well. Today I’m posting my review of Whiteout by the dream team, Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk & Nicola Yoon.

Whiteout by: Dhonielle Clayton, Tiffany D. Jackson, Nic Stone, Angie Thomas, Ashley Woodfolk & Nicola Yoon: It’s not often that Atlanta, Georgia gets hit with snow, but when a snowstorm forces the city to screech to a halt, plans get changed very drastically. A group of teens all on their own journey, start to band together to help their friend pull off the biggest apology yet. No one was prepared for the whiteout, so only time will tell if they’ll be able to pull it all off, despite the snow. This novel was cute, but it didn’t spark the same kind of love that this dream team brought us with Blackout. The reader isn’t quite able to pin point why exactly this didn’t work for them, but they really wanted to love it and they just didn’t. The way this followed multiple characters throughout one story meant we had a lot to keep track of. For such a short book it just felt like we didn’t get enough of each character to really care about them. Plus, it made it hard to remember them, too. There were definitely some characters who weren’t as memorable because we saw them for two seconds and then they were gone. This might have been better if each character had had a short story dedicated to them, instead of bouncing around from story to story to story; it might have helped with getting to know the characters better and feeling less confused as to how they fit into the bigger story, because there were quite a few side characters. This also felt like it focused on all the characters trying to get back with someone, and sure that is supposed to make us as the reader feel the love, but in some instances it came off as feeling more desperate to get someone back than being in love. The overall plot of being stuck in a snowstorm was fun to read and definitely gave the story life and excitement. One of the good things about this novel was the fact that it didn’t drag; for a story that had the potential to be slow, this was never boring and it was always fast-paced. In the end this wasn’t a bad novel, it had its moments, but on the whole it didn’t completely live up to the hype that this reader thought it was going to deserve.