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soulsbooks23's review against another edition
3.0
Empecé a leer este libro sin saber nada de él y me pareció muy lindo, único y con enseñanzas profundas de la vida. Toda la historia es ciertamente muy interesante y las historias que se cuentan en ella también lo son.
Al principio no entendía nada de lo que estaba pasando pero a medida de que te adentras en la historia todo va tomando sentido. Los 5 personajes me gustaron muchísimo, en especial la protagonista Llonka.
Es un libro para reflexionar sobre la vida y permitirnos ver los afortunados que somos de vivir. Super recomendado este libro.
Al principio no entendía nada de lo que estaba pasando pero a medida de que te adentras en la historia todo va tomando sentido. Los 5 personajes me gustaron muchísimo, en especial la protagonista Llonka.
Es un libro para reflexionar sobre la vida y permitirnos ver los afortunados que somos de vivir. Super recomendado este libro.
veerasofia's review against another edition
emotional
lighthearted
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
2.0
angus_mckeogh's review against another edition
1.0
Two one-star reads back to back. It wasn’t that this was a YA book that made it so bad. The story was ridiculous. The premise was interesting, kids in a hospice meet late at night and tell stories to one another. Then they decide to make a pact. The first to die will try to communicate with those who are still alive. However, that is the one and only time you hear about that pact. And the stories they tell one another are colossally boring. Very poorly executed. I wasn’t entertained in the least.
authoramandafernandes's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.5
hannahotis's review against another edition
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
headinthebooks's review against another edition
3.0
3.5 stars
So, this was a great story.. I loved the character and the plot so much... but here is my problem with this book, It was so slow.. so slow! So by the description of the book it says when the first one to die, so we know someone is going to die.. I read 50% of the books and still no one had died. It started to pick up when I had around 30-20 pages left.. wtf.
The thing that saved this book was its characters, nothing else.
I only read this book because Mike Flanagan's Netflix show based on this is coming out soon, so I wanted to read the book before watching the show. Now I can't see where he would go with this, but I can't wait.
So, this was a great story.. I loved the character and the plot so much... but here is my problem with this book, It was so slow.. so slow! So by the description of the book it says when the first one to die, so we know someone is going to die.. I read 50% of the books and still no one had died. It started to pick up when I had around 30-20 pages left.. wtf.
The thing that saved this book was its characters, nothing else.
I only read this book because Mike Flanagan's Netflix show based on this is coming out soon, so I wanted to read the book before watching the show. Now I can't see where he would go with this, but I can't wait.
mehsi's review against another edition
1.0
Wow, what complete and utter BS was this book. I know it is fiction, I know supernatural/fantasy, but dear Lord, what a load of BS it was. I have a splitting headache, and I am actually sorry I spend money (even if it was only a small amount) on it.
The blurb? It sounds amazing, and I was really interested in it. Sadly, the whole pact thing and then one dying doesn't happen until about 80 pages until the end.
And the BS just starts spread out some more after that. Nothing horrible happens, nothing exciting happens. Just the natural things that happen at a place like that.
I also disliked, no hated, the past lives/Master sequences and the various conversations that build around it. Dear Lord, what utter crap that was. I am all open for reincarnation and past lives, if you believe that, feel free, but I felt it was so fake, and so bleh in this one, that instead of being amazed and interested, I just wanted to shake Ilonka and get out of her desperate love for a certain boy. It just felt like she made up all that stuff to get attention, to get the boy she wanted.
Ilonka was a terrible character, not only was her story enormously frustrating, I also just got pissed at her attitude. How she treated Kathy, how she treated Kevin, how she treated everyone. I don't get why she got such a special treatment for the guy running the place.
Then we have the stories. Urgh, I mostly just skimmed through them when I found out that we could pick out of: Boring, Gore, Boring, Boring. And this is how all the stories went. You always had one disturbed mind making up sick stories, while the rest was just utterly boring.
The things that kept me reading were the parts about the illness, they were written really well (OK, with exception of Ilnoka, though I guess even her part made sense, as a lot of people with such severe illness will do anything to deny it and try to make it better, even when they know there is no hope) and I was just heartbroken as the story continued and certain things happened. I could have seen them coming, but they still were so terribly sad. :(
All in all though, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. Avoid this one, and grab a better Christopher Pike book.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
The blurb? It sounds amazing, and I was really interested in it. Sadly, the whole pact thing and then one dying doesn't happen until about 80 pages until the end.
And the BS just starts spread out some more after that. Nothing horrible happens, nothing exciting happens. Just the natural things that happen at a place like that.
I also disliked, no hated, the past lives/Master sequences and the various conversations that build around it. Dear Lord, what utter crap that was. I am all open for reincarnation and past lives, if you believe that, feel free, but I felt it was so fake, and so bleh in this one, that instead of being amazed and interested, I just wanted to shake Ilonka and get out of her desperate love for a certain boy. It just felt like she made up all that stuff to get attention, to get the boy she wanted.
Ilonka was a terrible character, not only was her story enormously frustrating, I also just got pissed at her attitude. How she treated Kathy, how she treated Kevin, how she treated everyone. I don't get why she got such a special treatment for the guy running the place.
Then we have the stories. Urgh, I mostly just skimmed through them when I found out that we could pick out of: Boring, Gore, Boring, Boring. And this is how all the stories went. You always had one disturbed mind making up sick stories, while the rest was just utterly boring.
The things that kept me reading were the parts about the illness, they were written really well (OK, with exception of Ilnoka, though I guess even her part made sense, as a lot of people with such severe illness will do anything to deny it and try to make it better, even when they know there is no hope) and I was just heartbroken as the story continued and certain things happened. I could have seen them coming, but they still were so terribly sad. :(
All in all though, I wouldn't recommend this book to anyone. Avoid this one, and grab a better Christopher Pike book.
Review first posted at http://twirlingbookprincess.com/
zlwrites's review against another edition
dark
emotional
inspiring
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
I could see why Mike Flanagan adapted this. Tons of heart, plenty of room for an anthology of stories that adapt a lot of Pike's work without seeming like another Goosebumps show/movie, and space for Flanagan's usual long speeches and character work. I did like the show better but this was lean and didn't have the room Flanagan had to breathe. Still good and I'm glad I read it. Felt like I was running into old friends
courtnyklly's review
dark
emotional
mysterious
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
read before watching the tv show on netflix and have heard the book is a lot different - i hope this is the case because for the most part this was quite dull and felt a bit pointless. i enjoyed the stories the club came up with but the actual plot just felt like “no plot just vibes” and didn’t really have the arc i would’ve liked. things were mentioned like making a pact to contact from the afterlife and this is said on the blurb too and was never gone into in depth at all. i’m looking forward to the show to see what the differences are and i did really love the characters
lindseyannd's review against another edition
2.0
I knew it was going to be different from the Netflix series. I was hoping the “book is better than the adaptation” would hold true. But sadly I wasn’t a fan of either.