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3.5 AVERAGE
3.5 AVERAGE
Best book I read in a long time. Could not put it down. Love this author so much.
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-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:
No
Not as good as some of her other books but still made me cry.
This was the strangest book I've ever read. I swear I was confused 90% of the time, nothing made sense. I didn't really understand what time it was. I mean then they said years and stuff but the way they described things, for me it didn't make sense. And the ending was a bit scary and super dramatic. I kind of messed me up.
Al principio me costó engancharme, pero poco después ya no lo podía dejar, me encantó, a pesar de que Tamara no me cayó bien la mayor parte del libro, al final le tomé cariño. Yo quiero uno de esos diarios!
emotional
mysterious
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
What a huge disappointment this was, and with such a promising premise, too!
Girl goes to live with her secretive relatives and finds a magic diary that predicts the future, based on her current course of actions. That sounds awesome, right? I don't understand how this was executed so poorly.
First of all, this was a very sleepy little story for the first 2/3 of the book. Characters did some mysterious things here and there, but the protagonist, Tamara, basically just wandered around, whined, and thought about how she was much better than everyone else. It was like listening to a driveling chavette version of Bella Swan. *Shudder*
Things finally get interesting at about 200 pages in, but you know what? That's pretty close to the end of the book, and all of the end content is rushed through at a break-neck pace. The diary makes predictions, and then the subsequent paragraph reads like, "and then Tamara did those things, and they turned out like the diary said!" (That's really not much of an exaggeration.)
Another thing: Why were there two love interests? There was absolutely no need for both of them. It would have made more sense if there had been just one guy who was the bookmobile driver, who was older than Tamara, and who forgave her for lying to him and helped her solve her mystery. It's not like they were really competing with one another, and having one love interest fade away halfway through the story was just distracting.
More than anything else, I think what bothered me was how painfully obvious the "surprise" ending was. This is why I hate mysteries. I'm never thrown off or surprised by the plot twists at the end. If they wouldn't make everything so glaringly obvious halfway through the book, I might actually enjoy the genre every now and then.
Girl goes to live with her secretive relatives and finds a magic diary that predicts the future, based on her current course of actions. That sounds awesome, right? I don't understand how this was executed so poorly.
First of all, this was a very sleepy little story for the first 2/3 of the book. Characters did some mysterious things here and there, but the protagonist, Tamara, basically just wandered around, whined, and thought about how she was much better than everyone else. It was like listening to a driveling chavette version of Bella Swan. *Shudder*
Things finally get interesting at about 200 pages in, but you know what? That's pretty close to the end of the book, and all of the end content is rushed through at a break-neck pace. The diary makes predictions, and then the subsequent paragraph reads like, "and then Tamara did those things, and they turned out like the diary said!" (That's really not much of an exaggeration.)
Another thing: Why were there two love interests? There was absolutely no need for both of them. It would have made more sense if there had been just one guy who was the bookmobile driver, who was older than Tamara, and who forgave her for lying to him and helped her solve her mystery. It's not like they were really competing with one another, and having one love interest fade away halfway through the story was just distracting.
More than anything else, I think what bothered me was how painfully obvious the "surprise" ending was. This is why I hate mysteries. I'm never thrown off or surprised by the plot twists at the end. If they wouldn't make everything so glaringly obvious halfway through the book, I might actually enjoy the genre every now and then.
I received a free copy of this book for review via First Reads.
I loved this book. It had a little paranormal woo-hoo that's so popular these days, a mystery. The main character, Tamara, was a shallow, self-centered brat that by the end had discovered what's important in life. Not much is made of why the book makes its way to Tamara, but in an afterword by the author, she says she feels that people don't choose books - books choose people. I really enjoyed this book and thought it was excellent.
I loved this book. It had a little paranormal woo-hoo that's so popular these days, a mystery. The main character, Tamara, was a shallow, self-centered brat that by the end had discovered what's important in life. Not much is made of why the book makes its way to Tamara, but in an afterword by the author, she says she feels that people don't choose books - books choose people. I really enjoyed this book and thought it was excellent.