Great concept, but...
Six for Hicks is the perfect reality TV show starring the Hicks family. With father Hicks as the town preacher, the family seems to glow with godly light. All except Essie who is 17 and just found out she's pregnant. The first few chapters were very intriguing but after that, things slowed to a crawl. There are sections and even chapters that could be completely taken out of the book and have it not hinder the story one bit. The writing itself was good but just WAY too much fluff. The characters didn't seem real to me at all which may very well have been what the author was going for as they are a televised family. But for dealing with issues this serious, I felt that I needed a bit more emotion than what I was given. I mean when you put this many cliche teen-drama scenarios all into one book, you'd expect a lot more... drama. Instead it seemed to come up short and I found myself yelling at the characters more than anything. They just did not react realistically to their situations in my opinion. This book has a great concept(s) but I just don't think it was executed quite right. I feel like there's too many unanswered questions and too many things that just didn't make sense because they were never fully explained. Again, the story (along with the characters) seemed very one-dimensional, which is wild considering how much fluff there is in this book. Weird right? Oh well, I digress. Can't say I'd recommend this one.
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