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The Cupid War: All Love Is Warfare (2011)

by Timothy Carter(Favorite Author)

3.46 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

0738726141 (ISBN13: 9780738726144)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Flux

review 1: I really liked this book in the beginning. There were some really great ideas, and I couldn't get over the giant cubes of love--That was hilarious. After getting half-way through the book though, the story seemed kinda rushed, and some of the transitions were a bit wonky. At one pivotal moment in the story, I turned the page and I thought I must have skipped a page or two, but no--The author just abandoned the scene, which was a shame, since it was so important. Dealing with a subject like depression and suicide, I thought the author should have gone a bit deeper, taken his time with certain things, but it just seemed like he was on a time crunch or something--Too bad. One thing that didn't add up for me is the idea that this boy would attempt suicide because of some girl ... morehe was simply hanging out with...If she had been his actual girlfriend, okay, but just an amiga, didn't really sell it for me. I know there were special circumstances, that she was like a dark spirit incarnate, but still... It might have helped if we had been given more background info on her too. Character development and motivation is always a plus. Anyway, I really liked the book, great concept, it just kinda fell apart during the second half for me--Too rushed.
review 2: There is, I am sure, a great teen novel to be written about mood disorders. There is probably, even, a great teen novel written about mood disorders that is funny and a bit surreal. The Cupid War, however, is not it. Let's say you can agree with and get past the personifcation of a mental illness as an evil being bent on your distruction - which I kinda don't and really can't. Let's say you can embrace the silliness of the idea of a squad of Cupids (because when it comes right down to it that's frankly no worse than sparkly vampires) - which I might, if the mythology offered weren't so poorly conceived. Let's even say you can even overlook the obviousness of the plot (VOYA's cover blurb hilariously and understatedly recommends this for young adults who enjoy "easy-to-understand stories")- which God knows I have before in romance novels...but those have better dialogue than this. Even allowing for all that, Carter's Cupid War comes up against one insurmountable obstacle: It's. Not. Funny. Not remotely. And the protagonist, Ricky Fallon, on whom the entire plot hinges, comes off less as the slightly-edgy, mouthy hero the story needs than a rude jerk no one wants to be around...not even after his death. Not even for just 200-odd pages. less

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