Vitaliy Shuvalov Shuvalov itibaren Aldama, Tab., Meksika
You know, nothing can touch Wicked. But if only to see some familiar faces, I DID enjoy this. It's like ex sex.
Great beginning, middle, and almost end. I just didn't like the finishing touches. Smart, inventive, character-driven. Good writing.
its great
So well-written, very real and believable characters. About South Africa, about apartheid and much much more.
Another splendid page-turner from Jilly Cooper. There are a few bits of child abuse covered therein, which upset me, but were crucial to the plot, having been perpetrated by the "baddies". I was rooting on the side of the "goodies/underdog" all the way through. Cooper lets some familiar characters loose in that familiar GSOH irreverant style and ties it all in at the end with a few Kleenex moments. It's another toffs v. scum-come-good done in an educational setting. If you've read some of Cooper's other books you'll be familiar with the toff school. A thoroughly diverting good read.
I found this book to be really...weird. I was so confused a lot of the time. I get that there are two different worlds and Ava is/was in both of them. But the plot of the world where she is now, and the plot of the world that she came from was all mixed up. I tried to keep them straight but I couldn't. The only character I really liked was Jane. I felt so bad for her. All she wanted was her daughter, her Ava, and you could see how much she wanted to be love and have her "daughter" let her love her. I didn't really care about any of the other characters. I think that since they were involved in both worlds, I kept getting them confused and didn't connect with them. I dunno. I will say that it did keep me interested. I wanted to find out what was going on, both with what happened to the Ava of our world and why the Ava of the other world was pulled to this world. But I don't think I ever really got the answers. Or if I did, I just plain don't understand them!