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^^ I agree 200%.

First, about the review. It was so informal! Like you said, that might be their style, but it was conveyed such a biased feeling to me. Also, yes, it is obvious that they went into this thinking, "let's find all the ways that this is a Harry Potter knock off and then make fun of them!" It's almost as if they read the book as fast as possible, and then skimmed it for anything they could use to make it seem close to Harry Potter.

Seriously, there are so many books like Harry Potter, you can't judge a book by that fact! That's a horrible reason to not read a book. Imagine all the books that wouldn't be read just because they share a few aspects to another book. And the aspects that they cited were ridiculous -- I mean (this is going to be very sarcastic, people):

Oh no, guys, the young main character goes to a ''school! That has a principal''! And that has a name! Not to mention she eats candy! ''And guess what? ''There's a class she isn't good at! With a teacher she doesn't like! This is way to similar to Harry Potter, people, we have to do something!

Wait a second..... that applies to..... most kids.....

But wait, listen to this: The things they lick to open their lockers are FLAVORED!

.........wait a second. That's.... that's not like Harry Potter. Sure, Dumbledore uses the names of candy as the password to his office a few times during the series, but to say those are similar reall stretches the truth.

^ YES Flashback was NOT my favorite. It almost felt like she was dragging the series out a) because she thinks we all want a book that mainly was about romance and b) she needs to fill up a few more books -- 8 and 9 -- since she promised them both.

I once counted, and depending how you look at it, there were about 289 pages -- 289 PAGES -- spent in the hospital wing! That's roughly a third of the book in which this happened:

- Sofitz flirted.

- Keefe tried to help but being WAY out of character -- he seemed to be written as way less mature in Flashback, and I have no idea why.

- .....That's pretty much it.

So yeah, that was really boring to me. I hardly was able to power through that. THEN we got to all these bodygaurds, which felt off. Like she just threw them in their because she needed the characters for certain tasks, and she didn't know how else to include them all. I didn't like it. It didn't seem like something that they would actually do, if that makes any sense.

I don't know, Flashback was just hard to read for me. I am still holding out hope that Legacy will pull it all together.