The book was interesting and depressing. Sometimes I forgot it is a true story. The things that these young girls experience is tought to read. Even though I deal with some of this story matter in my job it still was a lot to take in. I didn't really like the style that it was written in. I struggled to keep up with all the characters, there are a lot of them. Overall I would recommend this book.
To me, this kind of balance between popular and "literary" fiction is an art in and of itself. A great book to read on the plane. I picked it up in Heathrow Airport on my way to India. The clerk sized me up at the register and told me I'd love it. I thought it was really imaginative and well written while telling an exciting adventure story. There are flaws certainly. What I liked about it most about it was that while telling a story that captures our imagination, it reflects on literature and fiction and the power it holds over the reader, but not an overly serious way. It's a book about curiousity, which is why I read adventure stories. Someone on here said it's what Borges would have written if he wrote bestsellers, and I kind of feel it's a little like Calvino bestseller. This was a fun read.
** spoiler alert ** This is really a review for the whole four book series. Hooray for a YA supernatural romance that isn't cheesy or unbearably whiny! I enjoyed the character development and the awareness that the heroine had that she was messing up but couldn't quite stop herself from making mistakes over and over. It felt like a teenager/impetuous/inexperienced thing rather than a stupidity thing. One of the aspects I liked the most was the differentiation between different kinds of love. Love, lust, familial love, they are all explored and contemplated. I enjoyed that kind of depth and insight which is all too rare in YA supernatural books. Usually I feel like love is just a name tacked onto infatuation/lust to justify sleeping together or doing stupid things. In this one, I felt like the two characters in love really did feel love and they worked through their problems, and lust was clearly not the same thing.
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dramadaphne
Senador Guiomard
The book was interesting and depressing. Sometimes I forgot it is a true story. The things that these young girls experience is tought to read. Even though I deal with some of this story matter in my job it still was a lot to take in. I didn't really like the style that it was written in. I struggled to keep up with all the characters, there are a lot of them. Overall I would recommend this book.
2022-10-29 03:36
robertoplata
43025 Caneto PR, İtalya
To me, this kind of balance between popular and "literary" fiction is an art in and of itself. A great book to read on the plane. I picked it up in Heathrow Airport on my way to India. The clerk sized me up at the register and told me I'd love it. I thought it was really imaginative and well written while telling an exciting adventure story. There are flaws certainly. What I liked about it most about it was that while telling a story that captures our imagination, it reflects on literature and fiction and the power it holds over the reader, but not an overly serious way. It's a book about curiousity, which is why I read adventure stories. Someone on here said it's what Borges would have written if he wrote bestsellers, and I kind of feel it's a little like Calvino bestseller. This was a fun read.
2022-10-29 03:07
megumiconfeccoes
Mucovile, Arnavutluk
** spoiler alert ** This is really a review for the whole four book series. Hooray for a YA supernatural romance that isn't cheesy or unbearably whiny! I enjoyed the character development and the awareness that the heroine had that she was messing up but couldn't quite stop herself from making mistakes over and over. It felt like a teenager/impetuous/inexperienced thing rather than a stupidity thing. One of the aspects I liked the most was the differentiation between different kinds of love. Love, lust, familial love, they are all explored and contemplated. I enjoyed that kind of depth and insight which is all too rare in YA supernatural books. Usually I feel like love is just a name tacked onto infatuation/lust to justify sleeping together or doing stupid things. In this one, I felt like the two characters in love really did feel love and they worked through their problems, and lust was clearly not the same thing.
2022-08-31 22:13