5 reasons why Water for Elephants is a bad book.

Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen might be the worst book ever made. The book has some positives, but the negatives greatly out weigh them. 

1. It doesn't keep you hooked throughout the book

The author gives you something to hook you in the very beginning, but after that it just goes downhill after that. Gruen just tells you about his life on a daily basis. The jobs he has, the people he talks to, just your normal everyday life. Her writing does make up for it though because she makes it feel like you are there with Jacob (the main character) and going through his day with him. 

2. Some of the scenes in the book are confusing or weird

Some of the scenes in this book are weird and somewhat disturbing. She describes jacob going to see a stripper in detail and made me slightly uncomfortable while I was reading it. The detail she put in it is very disturbing and wasnt really necessary to the story being told at all. it confused me because I couldn't figure out why it was a part of the story. 

3. It jumps around from different ages 

Jacobs first story is told through him when he is in a nursing home. That confuses me because it's hard to keep up with what's going on in the particular chapter because of the different things happening within his different ages. For example, when he is in the nursing home, he complains about the food and is fighting with this other man about the circus he used to work in. In the chapters where he is younger, he also complains and fights with the other people. 

4. The language 

The language in the book is very distracting from the story because there is so much of it. It is used almost every other sentence and it gets annoying after a while. Some of the characters from the circus are worse than others but it fits their personality that the author has made for them. 

5. The love interest gets introduced way to late

This book is considered a romance novel but the girl doesn't even get introduced until like halfway through the book. Even then she doesn't come off as a love interest because she has a husband and is mean to Jacob because she is a preformer and he is just a worker that doesn't get any special attention. 

This book shouldn't be as widely known and popular as it is. It is really annoying and doesn't even make since half the time. Maybe if the book was written differently it would be a lot better than its all cracked up to be.