My main complaint about this book is that it’s too short. At about 350 pages, it could easily have been twice as long and still remained fascinating. “Every moment, every breath, contains a choice. But life is imperfect. We make the wrong choices. So we end up living in a state of perpetual regret, and is there anything worse? I built something that could actually eradicate regret. Let you find worlds where you made the right choice.” Jason Dessen, a college professor, and his artist […]
Here’s that good YA I’ve been searching for
Morgan survived something at her school last October the 15th. Since then, she’s been house-bound: afraid to even walk out the front door. She’s no longer communicating with her friends, goes to school online, and has completely stopped the competitive swimming that she used to live for. Her whole world is the inside of her apartment, along with her over-worked mother and her precious little brother. And then a boy moves in next door, and everything changes. “I think you’re a girl who went through a horrible thing, […]
The “Geek” part is good. The “Unrequited Love”…not so much
I’d be interested to see if Sarvenaz Tash has written anything else, because while I wasn’t a huge fan of the protagonist in this story, the background of New York Comic Con and Tash’s obvious love of all things nerdy made the rest of it pretty fun. “And who wouldn’t wish that? Certainly everyone here- dressed up as aliens, and wizards, and zombies, and superheroes- wants desperately to be inside a story, to be part of something more logical and meaningful than real life seems to […]
I did like the turtle’s name. The rest was a flaming turd.
I should have known how bad this would be after the first couple of chapters, but I stupidly soldiered on. Matthew Quick wrote The Silver Linings Playbook, which was a decent read. This…was not. The tagline for the book is Didn’t you ever just simply want to…stop? I should have taken its own advice. But it’s not too late for you! Run away! But read my review first — I put pictures in it in order to distract you from the terrible-ness. Every Exquisite Thing starts with Nanette O’Hare […]
Every parent’s worst nightmare
What She Knew is Gilly Macmillan’s debut novel, and it reminded me a lot of Tana French (but not quite as good) or Sophie Hannah (but a little better) — rotating viewpoints, a distraught mother you can’t quite trust, and set in England. I didn’t realize until I’d finished it that I’d also read Macmillian’s follow up (The Perfect Girl), which I believe I called “perfectly unmemorable”. This, too, was a fast-paced read, but I think it’s going to stick with me a little better. “A year ago, […]
“Sometimes I think that everyone has a tragedy waiting for them…”
I downloaded The Beginning of Everything pretty much immediately after finishing Schneider’s Extraordinary Measures. About 3 chapters in, reading the banter between Ezra and his former best friend, I thought to myself: yeah, I’m going to like this one, too. Ezra Faulkner has played tennis since he could walk, sits at the popular kids table at school and dates a cheerleader. He coasts by on his grades and gets away with a lot — including attending drunken parties with his friends. Then about two weeks before the end […]
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