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1.88 AVERAGE
1.88 AVERAGE
This book was absolutely wild. A pterodactyl in high school, no world building and a dinosaur boyfriend?? This desevers better. Smh
Tries to be too many things at once, some great ideas but none seem fully realised...
Who isn't going to want to read a book about a pterodactyl going to high school?!
It would be a fairly standard teenage story - overachiever Shiels is coping nicely with studies, student council responsibilities, college applications and a caring boyfriend who lets her enjoy the limelight. Out of the blue (sky) one day a new student arrives, and Shiels feels a powerful attraction to him, distracting her from her carefully constructed life.
This would be standard. But Pyke is a Pterodactyl.
Quite a concept. It opens up a whole can of worms (or herrings?) - where did he come from? Are there more somewhere? How did he learn English? Why is he attending school?
Shiels life is full - Pyke's arrival threatens to topple it all, the school dance she's organising, her happy, longstanding relationship with a guy who spookily can almost read her mind and is happy playing second fiddle, applications she needs to submit to her dream college course (despite her parents' wishes that she become a doctor).
There's a whole subplot that seems to need a larger role, when Shiels takes up running (I wasn't quite convinced why she did this) and meets a shoe-shop owner. This could have been a book in itself, and needed more time to develop and conclude.
Her boyfriend annoyed me a lot, he seemed very weak-willed, and Pyke himself is more of an 'idea', a sex object than a character (though no less so than any boyband idol or regular 'crush' subject).
The ending really didn't feel right to me either, still a lot unexplained and it didn't satisfy. If we think of this as a metaphor for teenage female lust/sexual awakening, I think Twilight did a similiar thing with vampires, but that made more sense with a mythical/unlikely object of affection. There are some very uncomfortable scenes as well (nothing graphic), but it never for me felt that the attraction was right.
It attracted me with its premise, but it didn't really work for me overall, though there are scenes, elements, aspects that do.
Who isn't going to want to read a book about a pterodactyl going to high school?!
It would be a fairly standard teenage story - overachiever Shiels is coping nicely with studies, student council responsibilities, college applications and a caring boyfriend who lets her enjoy the limelight. Out of the blue (sky) one day a new student arrives, and Shiels feels a powerful attraction to him, distracting her from her carefully constructed life.
This would be standard. But Pyke is a Pterodactyl.
Quite a concept. It opens up a whole can of worms (or herrings?) - where did he come from? Are there more somewhere? How did he learn English? Why is he attending school?
Shiels life is full - Pyke's arrival threatens to topple it all, the school dance she's organising, her happy, longstanding relationship with a guy who spookily can almost read her mind and is happy playing second fiddle, applications she needs to submit to her dream college course (despite her parents' wishes that she become a doctor).
There's a whole subplot that seems to need a larger role, when Shiels takes up running (I wasn't quite convinced why she did this) and meets a shoe-shop owner. This could have been a book in itself, and needed more time to develop and conclude.
Her boyfriend annoyed me a lot, he seemed very weak-willed, and Pyke himself is more of an 'idea', a sex object than a character (though no less so than any boyband idol or regular 'crush' subject).
The ending really didn't feel right to me either, still a lot unexplained and it didn't satisfy. If we think of this as a metaphor for teenage female lust/sexual awakening, I think Twilight did a similiar thing with vampires, but that made more sense with a mythical/unlikely object of affection. There are some very uncomfortable scenes as well (nothing graphic), but it never for me felt that the attraction was right.
It attracted me with its premise, but it didn't really work for me overall, though there are scenes, elements, aspects that do.
adventurous
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
ROMANCE
Shiels has everything going for her: she is student body chair at her highschool, she has the perfect boyfriend, and she is on track to earn her way into a top university. But everything changes when Pyke, a pterodactyl, begins attending her school. Soon, she finds herself under his spell, irresistable aura, and pterodactyl muscles that begin to unravel her so-called perfect life.
I wish this book was as exciting and hilarious as the premise sounded. I was hoping for a book that didn't take itself too seriously, a sort of spin off of Twilight and similar romances, but with the most unsexy, unusual choice as a love interest; a pterodactyl. What I got was a 400-page, choppy and overly serious drag that I had a hard time slogging my way through. I was bothered with the amount of running Shiels did in this novel, and that somehow her yellow shoes and the weird old shoe shop mentor that teaches her how to breathe are supposed to provide greater metaphors about life. The whole novel seemed to move at a snails pace, and I just wish it didn't take itself so seriously. I wasn't expecting a life-changing, thought-provoking novel, which unfortunately seems like what this novel was trying to be, but failed horribly.
Shiels has everything going for her: she is student body chair at her highschool, she has the perfect boyfriend, and she is on track to earn her way into a top university. But everything changes when Pyke, a pterodactyl, begins attending her school. Soon, she finds herself under his spell, irresistable aura, and pterodactyl muscles that begin to unravel her so-called perfect life.
I wish this book was as exciting and hilarious as the premise sounded. I was hoping for a book that didn't take itself too seriously, a sort of spin off of Twilight and similar romances, but with the most unsexy, unusual choice as a love interest; a pterodactyl. What I got was a 400-page, choppy and overly serious drag that I had a hard time slogging my way through. I was bothered with the amount of running Shiels did in this novel, and that somehow her yellow shoes and the weird old shoe shop mentor that teaches her how to breathe are supposed to provide greater metaphors about life. The whole novel seemed to move at a snails pace, and I just wish it didn't take itself so seriously. I wasn't expecting a life-changing, thought-provoking novel, which unfortunately seems like what this novel was trying to be, but failed horribly.
funny
lighthearted
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Books like this defy description. I was immediately drawn to the bizarre title and even more bizarre description. How could I not read something so crazy?! There have been a lot of teen werewolf and vampire romances (i.e. paranormal romance) but there have been little to none inter-specie's romance for teen readers. Young adults need not look further! Shiels, a nerdy, over accomplished braniac finds herself spiraling out of control her senior year in high school when a pterodactyl named Pyke comes to school. "An endangered life, a rare spirit, newly arrived from the great beyond." She finds herself oddly infatuated with him and her relationship with her boyfriend and her studies start to go to the wayside as she finds herself dreaming about Pyke's beak and other anatomy. At the school dance she boogies her way onto the stage where Pyke's band is performing and wrangle dances with him on stage in front of the entire student body. After that incident her nose is turned purple and she feels more in tune with the pterodactyl than ever, her high school likfe is about to get a lot more complicated. Why? "Because they had seen the real her, stripped of her title, her costumes, her armor, her aura - they had seen her in the wrangle dance, another of Pyke's girls. Chosen by him, marked by him, slave to him." Absurd, bizarre, and insane. I don't even know what to feel about this book.
Is this how a fever dream feels like? This is by far the weirdest and most unhinged shit I've ever read.
It was a conscious choice to read this book, mostly because of the bad reviews it was getting. I wanted to see what was so bad about it and boy, it was a ROLLER COASTER
I feel delirious.
It feels like I AM CRAZY because of everything that went down in this book.
Like... what the actual fuck?
It was a conscious choice to read this book, mostly because of the bad reviews it was getting. I wanted to see what was so bad about it and boy, it was a ROLLER COASTER
I feel delirious.
It feels like I AM CRAZY because of everything that went down in this book.
Like... what the actual fuck?