Name: Jekel Loves Hyde
ISBN: 9780152063900

Beth Fantaskey

As seventeen-year-old Jill Jekel and classmate Tristen Hyde work together on a chemistry project, hoping to win a scholarship for her and a cure for his curse, they also uncover family secrets and a chemistry of their own.

Jekel Loves Hyde

Ella Zegarra

La historia original es desconocida para mí, solo he oído o visto películas que lo tratan muy por encima. Cuando tuve este libro en mi estantería para empezar a leer, lo que se me vino a la mente fue que sólo era una especie de FanFic, de esos que no me gustan mucho. Dónde cogen solo el nombre de personajes conocidos para atraer lectores.
Sí, se puede considerar una especie de Fic, pero... 
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Dina

Okay. So. The thing about this book is that it was going pretty okay for me in the beginning, but, some 70 pages from the end, it was like the author just started flipping tables and decided to introduce a few different dramas at once. It got cliched, it got lame, it got bad.

The story started off okay, with this interesting idea of putting together a Jekel and a Hyde, working on a chemistry project. At first, you're like "yeah, but this is all pretend, this has nothing to do with The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, apart from this whole intrigue the author is trying to set up because of their names".

However, weird things soon start happening, you learn about this conspiracy and how these characters are really related to that Dr. Jekyll and things start to get reeeeally interesting, with strange bouts of rage and violence, people sort of blacking out, even though they don't really lose their conscience, they just can't remember any of it happening, and lots of creepy moments involving non-suspicious characters. Suffice to say, it was getting good, picking up pace, and I found myself reading faster, eager to see where it was all going.

The problem comes when, some 70-80 pages from the end, the author creates relationship drama, the main character gets irrationally angry about something that happened way back, she starts pushing the guy away for stupid reasons out of his control, goes and does stupid things over and over without a realistic reason to do so, obvious things get overlooked... It was a mess.

So, having that in mind, I don't really wanna go for 3 stars. I'll give it a 2.5 star rating only because of that interesting bit somewhere in the middle of the story, but everything else fell pretty flat. And let's not even talk about that last 1/4 of the book and unsatisfactory ending.

Jekel Loves Hyde

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