I'm going to be brutally honest here and say that I was not the biggest fan of this book.

In fact, I think I'm being a little overly nice with the rating I'm giving it, while also rounding up to match the ratings on Goodreads and Amazon.

Fear of Missing Out is a book I was fairly interested in, mainly because the main character has cancer. As this has been a heavy theme I was hoping more authors would write about, I was really excited to see how the story would turn out.

In short, this book was slow.

Very, very slow.

It was so slow, that nothing really happened until 160 something pages in, and this book has a page count of 320 pages. That really tells you something, doesn't it? After those initial 160 pages passed, the story finally began to pick up some semblance of speed and began moving.

The main character Astrid is someone I'm sure a lot of us can relate to. She is snarky, sarcastic, and a little bit over the top with jokes (and her jokes include her dying, so image what kind of jokes the rest of us could make). Trying to gain a little more control over her life, she cuts and dyes her hair after receiving her diagnosis. It is after this that Astrid meets a cryopreservation doctor and begins to wonder if that's the way she would like to go.

Her best friend happens to suggest an idea after they talked over a few things, and that idea included taking a road trip down to Arizona to visit the cryopreservation facility, along with making road stops to visit monuments in a manual they have. Mohit—Astrid's boyfriend—decides to tag along.

All in all, this book just wasn't the best for me. The characters felt like they'd been shortened out from more story potential, and the plot just felt like it was rushed after being dragged for so long. For this, I rate this book 2.75 stars (but I'll round to 3 on other sites). ( )

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