Cold Summer

DNF at 65%. Teenagers do not talk or act like this. These characters are stilted and undeveloped to the point where half way through the book, I have no idea what any of them even look like. The constant mention of Harper being into video games and having an OverWatch shirt got on my nerves a bit like it was the only trait the author could think of to make her “unique” or “weird” in some way. Girls can be into XBox games and still have friends and into sports all at the same time, it's not worth constantly mentioning.
The author also used divorce and death of parent figures in a strange way, and as a lazy plot device. Every family unit in this book has experienced a divorce or death within a few years which seems unbelievable plus you're not quite sure which parents are dead and which are just gone, and there's no mention of the reason why or how. We're mostly told about Aunt Amy's death but I couldn't tell what happened between Kale's parents or if Harper's dad was dead. It just seemed overdramatic and overshadowed the fact that Kale is a time traveler - which should be the main point of this book.
It just feels like this author saw The Time Traveler's Wife and decided to write a book.