Over the Rainbow by Brian Rowe

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Title: Over the Rainbow
Author: Brian Rowe
Published by: Indie
Release Date: August 6, 2013
Format: Kindle Book
Pages: 260
Genres: Young Adult, Fantasy, LGBT
Reading Challenges: Lenoreo's 2018 Beat the Backlist Challenge, Lenoreo's 2018 Reading Assignment Challenge, Lenoreo's COYER Big Summer Birthday Bash 2018
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Blurb:

The Wizard of Oz meets Jurassic Park!

Zippy Green never meant to fall in love with a girl, but when she does, her ultra-conservative father tries to send her to anti-gay camp. At the Kansas City airport, however, she hides inside a giant suitcase and sneaks onto an airplane headed not to the camp, but to Seattle, where her online love Mira lives. Halfway through the flight, the plane barrels out of control and crashes into the ground, knocking her unconscious.

When Zippy awakens, she finds that most of the passengers have vanished. She doesn’t know what’s happened, but she’s determined to find out. She begins a quest on foot toward Seattle, and along the way, she meets a teenager with a concussion, a homeless man with a heart condition, a child without a shred of bravery, and a terrier named Judy. Together the group discovers that more than two-thirds of the world's population have mysteriously disappeared. But that's only the beginning...

All Zippy wants is to find her Mira, but before she can she has to contend with two outside forces. The first is her homophobic father, who does everything in his power to keep her from the girl she loves. And the second is extinct creatures of all shapes and sizes, including living, breathing dinosaurs, which have replaced the missing population.

DNF @ 22% — Uhhhh….  I got this one almost 5 years ago, I think because someone whose reviews I follow loved it.  I can honestly say that we must have different tastes.  I was NOT a fan of the writing style at all.  It felt…simplistic?  The characters came across really flat and almost like caricatures.  I didn’t care about Zippy at all.  There were no subtleties here, if that makes any sense.  Honestly, I could tell in the first few pages that this was likely not going to be for me, so I highly recommend checking out the sample beforehand, and if you feel similarly to me, you should know fairly quickly.

Honestly, I was trying to push through b/c I don’t read a lot of books containing lesbians, and I wanted to switch in a non-contemporary book (since I read a lot of contemp).  But then we got to the rum part, and then the trippy dream, and I got bored and couldn’t do it anymore.  At a certain point you just have to admit when a book isn’t connecting with you.