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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
A little bit slow, but overall I enjoyed it very much. The writing style was beautiful, and the ending was simply great!
I had to re-read this one because I couldn't remember if I liked it or not. It won the Printz award, so it's a big deal. I'm not all that impressed. It seemed like another angst-ridden teenage girl telling an end-of-the-world survival story.[return][return]Daisy leaves the United States because her dad is remarrying. The step-mom and Daisy don't get along, resulting in an anorexic Daisy. She moves in with her dead mother's sister in London, and her cousins heal her in ways no one else can. A war begins, in a big way, and all of a sudden there isn't food and no one can be trusted. Daisy's cousins support themselves on the farm until the army moves into their farmhouse. The gross part of this book to me was Daisy falling in love with her first cousin. Ewwwww. I'm sorry. I know it's legal in some states, but not where I'm from. Yuck. So I couldn't get into the whole romance portion of the book. Daisy struggles, along with the rest of her family, until the war is over and she is finally reunited with her cousins again. She finds her home with them instead of her father.
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Meg Rosoff cuenta, a través de los ojos de Daisy, los horrores y desafíos que supone vivir atrapado en un país y en una guerra que no son tuyos. Una lectura intensa con momentos muy difíciles de la que se puede sacar más de una lección importante, y un romance precioso que podrá con todo, ¿o no? ¡Muy recomendado!
Meg Rosoff cuenta, a través de los ojos de Daisy, los horrores y desafíos que supone vivir atrapado en un país y en una guerra que no son tuyos. Una lectura intensa con momentos muy difíciles de la que se puede sacar más de una lección importante, y un romance precioso que podrá con todo, ¿o no? ¡Muy recomendado!
It’s not the most conventional book out there. The family dynamic definitely made me gag a little but considering the story wasn’t truly about the relationship as much as it was about survival I could see based on the story of survival it’s both heart wrenching and heart warming and I could imagine it coming from the words of a 15something year old. It kept my attention and as weird as it was I didn’t want to put it down, I had to know what happened next.
sad
tense
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
fast-paced
I thought this book was a little bit strange. I didn't like Daisy's run-on sentences. The war plot was unexpected and unusual. Also, at first I was very confused as to what war it was. WWI, WWII? Cold War? What?? Later I finally went on Wikipedia and read "..fictional war..", Oh. The romance and underage sex (?!) between Daisy and Edmond was the weirdest bit, although it was a very main aspect of the story. What I did like was the British coolness and sibling telepathy. I liked reading about what Daisy and Piper would eat and how they would survive. It could be pretty intense and emotional. The last part, of 6 or so years later, when Daisy goes back to England again, her real home, was good too. But overall, I thought Rosoff's What I Was was better. :)
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
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:
Yes
dark
emotional
hopeful
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:
Yes
It was a bit hard for me to hope that the love of first cousins would succeed (second cousins would have been easier to cheer for). In the end the story was so good that I kind of forgot about the cousin thing.