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3.56 AVERAGE
3.56 AVERAGE
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
fast-paced
Nora is so dumb, she's terrified of that guy and then decides to spend time with him???
Also, patch is in the wrong here in every possible situation... He FORCES himself into Chauncey's body (a metaphor for rape if you will), and Chauncey is the bad guy for wanting to end him??!!!!!
Nora's only in danger because PATCH is a fucking psycho stalker and putting her on Chauncey's radar also, but eh...
The expectations were low already but FUCKING HELL! </Spoiler>
280 pages of sexual tension and vague ominous references, then a chunk of complicated mythology and action. Add on a cheesy, romantic ending and there you have it. Even Twilight fans will be disappointed.
dark
mysterious
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
Not a huge fan - the plot and relationships all seemed pretty forced and not believable. The action also moved pretty slowly for most of the book and the supposed big twists were easy to predict. Since I already have the rest of the series checked out from the library, I am going to give book two a shot and see if it gets any better.
3-3,5 ⭐️
Pour moi, ce livre est un mélange entre « Twilight » et « Le journal d’un vampire », la seule différence est que notre grand lycéen mystérieux n’est pas un vampire mais un ange. Tout se passe très vite et j’ai trouvé le début de l’histoire légèrement brouillon mais je suis quand même allée au bout notamment grâce à la facilité de lecture de cet ouvrage. Le livre est également très prévisible (ce n’est pas le livre du siècle! et ce genre d’histoire est vu et revu) mais il reste relativement divertissant et je pense lire les autres tomes pour voir comment se passe la suite.
Pour moi, ce livre est un mélange entre « Twilight » et « Le journal d’un vampire », la seule différence est que notre grand lycéen mystérieux n’est pas un vampire mais un ange. Tout se passe très vite et j’ai trouvé le début de l’histoire légèrement brouillon mais je suis quand même allée au bout notamment grâce à la facilité de lecture de cet ouvrage. Le livre est également très prévisible (ce n’est pas le livre du siècle! et ce genre d’histoire est vu et revu) mais il reste relativement divertissant et je pense lire les autres tomes pour voir comment se passe la suite.
This is a poor imitation of a twilight novel. Fitzpatrick has altered a couple of details, and rewritten the story: even more poorly than the Twilight series. Whilst Bella's obsession with Edward was also pretty unbelievable in its dangerousness and stupidity, coming from an unlikely and unattractive heroine, the passion and obsession of it all was well described and even the adult reader was able to go along for the ride, forgiving most of the weaknesses of the writing, because the mood was so infectious, and the concept interesting, if annoyingly slow to progress.
Nora's obsession with the dangerous Patch is just ridiculous. Nora is perhaps a more attractive character than Bella was, but she is portrayed as sensible and mature, although she has a completely inexplicable friendship with a girlfriend who is the opposite (Vee) and the laughable attraction to Patch. Patch is a fallen angel, who decided to kill Nora until he fell in love with her - original, huh? Nora cannot decide whether she loves or hates him, and oscillates precariously between the two, despite a complete lack of reason for the indecision (apart from poorly described lust). Before she has any reason to think better of him, she starts to feel safe in his company, and look to him for protection against the obvious red herring, Elliot. This love-hate-fear repetition is so unbelievable that it makes Nora simply a foolish character who lacks all credibility.
Nora is apparently 16, and her mother is never home when she wants to be seeing her dangerous friends, yet is trusted so implicitly by her mother that she can do precisely as she pleases with her evenings, and seems to have the power (along with her ridiculously foolish girlfriend Vee) to decide to go on an overnight camping trip with a couple of boys, to drive her car all over and out of town, sustaining imaginary damage due to real encounters with enemies/ex-lovers of Patch.
Nora persists in taking stupid risks with her safety, going alone to the bad end of town, giving her coat and hat to a bag lady because she tells her she is going in the wrong direction (after being given the right directions by a bus driver) and she might set her right, even though she's obviously a thief who frightens Nora. The expectations of the reader are just too high, with us being expected to believe in unbelievable and inconsistent characters, real and imagined, teleportation and time travel, storms at contrived times and electricity going off and mobile phones lost and stolen and cars breaking down; Fitzpatrick does not really bother to untangle the real from the unreal in her contrived scenarios, and the smouldering attraction of Nora to Patch is just plain boring as its so unbelievable. The adult reader stops caring about what is going to happen to the beleaguered Nora, as she is so implausible.
This book has just been voted one of the top teen reads of 2010 in the US, so it is obviously attractive to its intended audience, and I guess that means it is good enough. But to any savvy adult reader, I believe this book must be seen as amateurish, unoriginal and puerile. I will not read any of its sequels, even though they are rated by Goodreads as superior to this first installment. And I won't complete the set for my library (a rare decision for me) unless there is a direct request.
Nora's obsession with the dangerous Patch is just ridiculous. Nora is perhaps a more attractive character than Bella was, but she is portrayed as sensible and mature, although she has a completely inexplicable friendship with a girlfriend who is the opposite (Vee) and the laughable attraction to Patch. Patch is a fallen angel, who decided to kill Nora until he fell in love with her - original, huh? Nora cannot decide whether she loves or hates him, and oscillates precariously between the two, despite a complete lack of reason for the indecision (apart from poorly described lust). Before she has any reason to think better of him, she starts to feel safe in his company, and look to him for protection against the obvious red herring, Elliot. This love-hate-fear repetition is so unbelievable that it makes Nora simply a foolish character who lacks all credibility.
Nora is apparently 16, and her mother is never home when she wants to be seeing her dangerous friends, yet is trusted so implicitly by her mother that she can do precisely as she pleases with her evenings, and seems to have the power (along with her ridiculously foolish girlfriend Vee) to decide to go on an overnight camping trip with a couple of boys, to drive her car all over and out of town, sustaining imaginary damage due to real encounters with enemies/ex-lovers of Patch.
Nora persists in taking stupid risks with her safety, going alone to the bad end of town, giving her coat and hat to a bag lady because she tells her she is going in the wrong direction (after being given the right directions by a bus driver) and she might set her right, even though she's obviously a thief who frightens Nora. The expectations of the reader are just too high, with us being expected to believe in unbelievable and inconsistent characters, real and imagined, teleportation and time travel, storms at contrived times and electricity going off and mobile phones lost and stolen and cars breaking down; Fitzpatrick does not really bother to untangle the real from the unreal in her contrived scenarios, and the smouldering attraction of Nora to Patch is just plain boring as its so unbelievable. The adult reader stops caring about what is going to happen to the beleaguered Nora, as she is so implausible.
This book has just been voted one of the top teen reads of 2010 in the US, so it is obviously attractive to its intended audience, and I guess that means it is good enough. But to any savvy adult reader, I believe this book must be seen as amateurish, unoriginal and puerile. I will not read any of its sequels, even though they are rated by Goodreads as superior to this first installment. And I won't complete the set for my library (a rare decision for me) unless there is a direct request.
