Switch, (Hardcover)

1.5 stars I am not even sure what this book was about. The publisher's summary makes it sound interesting but in reality, the book isnt about much. This whole book is just about flipping a switch in a house that is covered and separated by different boxes. Not sure why there are so many different boxes in their house because not all of them are protecting this switch. I am going to start with the one thing I did 'like' in this book. Probably the only thing that held my attention in this story was the mystery surrounding the sister of the main girl and her brother. There is a battle they fight to try and separate themselves from the manipulation, lies, and abuse this sister has caused. She has told so many lies and for me, this added a nice suspenseful mysterious character to the story who you are trying to figure out. She is only briefly mentioned in the beginning but then we learn more little by little as it is revealed. This was done really well to help build some backstory to the characters and to add some needed conflict and feeling into the book. But now the things that I personally didn't enjoy in this book. It didnt feel like a finished book. While reading it, it felt like a rough draft with only half a thought not fully formed and executed. This had a lot to do with how the book was written, which I have never seen before. Instead of writing things in complete sentences the book was written abbreviated with backslashes between each thought. A lot of the instances this was used was to resay the same thing in many different ways. Kind of how you would writing a book trying to decide which word or phrase to use. But instead of picking one this book has them all. Having everything abbreviated moved the story along so it felt like it was moving very fast from topic to topic. I would like this face-paced normally but sadly this book was faced past into more stuff that didnt matter. At the beginning of the book, I was very lost with what was happening. Things were not clearly explained. The main reason it was so hard to understand was that what was happening made no sense at all. It took a while to wrap my head around what was happening. Then halfway through when something else happened I would go through this process all over again to try and figure the insanity of what was happening, and that isnt good insanity. When I normally use that word it is in a good way by saying it was entertaining but this book was just plain weird. I really do not get the point of this book. This is very disappointing because the plot sounded interesting but how it was executed was very poor in my opinion. .