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Title	:	Flip
Author	:	Martyn Bedford
Book Format	:	Kindle Edition
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 104 pages
Published	:	(first published January 1st 2010)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Fantasy. Paranormal. Science Fiction. Mystery

Flip

Martyn Bedford

Kindle Edition | Pages: 104 pages

Rating: 3.53 | 3247 Users | 486 Reviews

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I feel pretty bad giving this book such a low rating, so once I've had more time to think about it I will probably bump it up, at most, a star.

I read the Skinjacker trilogy earlier this year, so the big "reveal" as to why Alex's psyche was in Flip's body seemed derived. It's like every time something was built up, I already knew what was going to happen. I don't want to give myself too much credit here, so I'll give some of that predictability credit to the author, Martyn Bedford, for writing a book so linear that I could see the ending from a couple chapters in.

Ok, that was more harsh than I intended this review to be. I did, honestly, enjoy the beginning of this book, probably until about halfway through. It kept me up all night reading, and I was excited to pick it back up once I could properly keep my eyes open the next day. I was expecting there to be more on Alex coming to terms on being Flip before finding a way to become Alex again; coping with his current life while also working towards his old life. But there wasn't really much of that. Alex went to school as Flip a couple times, but most days he was just psychoFlip so we had to watch him sit on the Internet and interact pointedly with his family. Of course I feel bad judging him of that, because I mostly sit on the Internet and interact (albeit, much more amicably) with my family on a daily basis, but that's not something I want thrown into a book about identity.

It's almost as if this book had no set structure. Characters were going in and out in a series of pointless subplots. We met Flip's best friend and his two girlfriends, but were never given the opportunity to flesh them out. Alex-as-Flip was too unbothered by Flip's life for all but one chapter of the book, so we never got a sense of what Flip was like. And, to be honest, I was much more interested in Flip's life than Alex's. Flip had things going for him before he was inhabited by Alex, and all that shut down and everyone was apparently okay with it. Cricket coaches never raised an eyebrow, his parents ignored him acting differently, his sister accepted the changing dynamic of their relationship, his friends at school (we knew Flip was popular but never really met his friends) didn't even question him. This kid was popular, an athlete, a son, a brother, but none of these things Flip had in his life were even the slightest obstacle for Alex. Even when he was caught by police doing something unspeakably creepy, his parents simply suggested therapy and Alex said no. And that was the end of that conflict.

I know the story is supposed to be about Alex and him attempting to get back to his own body, but I feel wholly unfulfilled. If I were to suddenly wake up one day as someone else, sure I'd freak out at first, but there would come a time where I would have to embrace who I had become, stop panicking, and work on a solution while still keeping the person I was in alive. Alex, as I mentioned before and we're led to believe, didn't have much going for him. Here he is given the opportunity to exist as someone who actually has a life and more than one friend, but he's so hellbent on going back that he doesn't embrace the very opportunity, even before he learned the reason for his current situation and was given something to look forward to. It is for this very reason that I didn't feel like Alex learned anything at all. Most stories like these allow the main character to actually learn something, even if it is just to appreciate life and the people around you more. Alex, unfortunately, doesn't, and it becomes less a story about identity, and merely a story about being in someone else's body for a while and shutting yourself off from the world while you attempt to get back into your own body.

That's the problem with Flip against most of the other YA novels I have read. While other novels are unrealistic, the author writes them in a way that makes you believe that they could actually be real. Even when the same thing happened during the Skinjacker series, it felt like a plausible scenario within the scope of the story. With Flip, it never did. I'm in someone else's body and clearly acting differently in front of my parents and friends and teachers. I go online and search for answers, and it turns out someone with the exact explanation I'm looking for reaches out to me. Then it turns out that they are just a drive away and know what I look like and where I will be on the day they find me. Then after they find me, they mentor me, drive me to the beach with my friends, buy me beer, pizza, etc... I'm never questioned by my parents or friends (who think he is my cousin)...... yes, this actually happens in the book. There could have been more going on behind the scenes, like Alex posting pictures of Flip or his actual locations, I don't know, but the book just got so over-the-top unrealistic that I stopped believing.

And that brings us to the underwhelming ending. It ends in probably my least favorite way any book could end: an email from the main character's point-of-view even though the entire story was told in third person. It was completely out of place and didn't tie anything together. This whole book we are given half of the story, from Alex-as-Flip, and now at the end that's the same thing we are given. No answers as to what has happened otherwise or to anybody else. We don't know, for sure, what any of the unrealistic repercussions are, and trust me, there are quite a few of them that I can't mention because they would be major spoilers. The last few chapters were so frustrating that I couldn't wait for them to finish, hoping that maybe, at the end, everything would come back around. It never did.

Looking back, I was completely dissatisfied with this book, even though I mostly enjoyed it. That aside, I honestly would not recommend it. It became too trivial to read after a while and never really got my interest once the plot really took off. Oh well.

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