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ellieroth's review
5.0
Original de: El Extraño Gato del Cuento
La escritora de The Lonely, uno de los libros más extraño que he leído, y sin duda también uno de mis favoritos, vuelve con esta también extraña novela, sobre un asesinato que no se sabe si fue hecho por una chica un poco fuera de sí o quizá por algo mucho, mucho peor.
Cuando leí Frozen Charlotte, no terminé asustada porque pasamos de posibles fantasmas asesinos a quizá un asesino psicópata. En The Boy Meets Girl Massacre pasa todo lo contrario. Sobra decir que terminé aterrada. Ese dicho de “témele más a los vivos que a los muertos”, no funciona conmigo. Tráeme un asesino serial con hacha o alguna cosa más cruel además de mucha, mucha sangre y no me da miedo, incluso lo disfruto un poco (¿ves porque Seth Bishop, Serial Hottie no me parecía raro?). Pero dame siquiera la idea que hay un fantasma en la historia y estoy gimiendo de miedo. Gritar es para valientes, gemir de miedo es cuando ya estás a punto de hacerte pis. Voy a defenderme un poquito: mi miedo no es irracional, quizá esté canalizando a Marshall (How I Met Your Mother) pero ¡Los fantasmas existen! Vivo en una casa donde han intentado asfixiarme, donde me han hablado cuando no había nadie… entre otras cosa más. Es un poquito difícil no creer en fantasmas después de todo eso.
Sin querer este año estoy explorando un género al que era bastante reacia a leer: Terror. Ainslie Hogarth no solo maneja en la historia la probabilidad de un fantasma sino también de una enfermedad mental, lo que me hizo a mí como lectora asustarme aún más. Me dejó pensando varias veces: ¿debo asustarme? ¿No debo asustarme? No sé si la palabra Terror sea correcta para calificar a The Boy Meets Girl Massacre o quizá suspenso, porque sabes lo que pasará al final, la historia solo nos dice cómo es que posiblemente haya pasado. El saber da mucho más miedo que el no saber.
La narración de Ainslie Hogarth es impecable, otra de las pocas veces que sentí tanta emoción al leer un libro, de esos donde podía sentir cada párrafo era diferente, fue con A Song for Ella Grey. Noelle tiene muchos cambios de humor algunos tan solo entre párrafo y párrafo, y se pueden sentir, mientras lees sabes que si ella estuviera hablando estaría gritando y después inmediatamente puedes sentir que se calma a pesar de que no se específica en la historia. No sé si ese tipo de manejar la historia tiene un nombre, pero si en mi básico conocimiento de literatura pude notarlo, estoy segura que Ainslie Hogarth es algo bastante especial.
Su talento aumenta cuando entiendes que la parte de “Annotated” no solo es una palabra de más en el título. Ainslie Hogarth no solo se metió en la cabeza de Noelle, sino también en la cabeza de un productor de cine y en la de un jefe de policía. Es impresionante como se nota en pequeñísimos fragmentos lo diferente de las personalidades.
Como cosa curiosa y un poco cruel de mi parte: Le recomiendo este libro a quienes todavía tienen la inocente idea de que las productoras hacen adaptaciones de libros porque aman a los lectores. En serio, todavía hay pobrecillos que creen que es por eso. The Boy Meets Girl Massacre les dará una pequeña idea de cómo es que funciona el mundo de Hollywood. Así algunos dejarían de quejarse tanto, la verdad
Ainslie Hogarth trae uno de los libros más interesantes y aterradores del año, solo me queda decir: LÉELO.
Recomiendo leer The Boy Meets Girl Massacre preferiblemente en versión física, tiene detalles que serán difíciles de apreciarlo en una versión digital. Y al ser una novela con toques comedia oscura retorcida, definitivamente no es para todo publico.
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La escritora de The Lonely, uno de los libros más extraño que he leído, y sin duda también uno de mis favoritos, vuelve con esta también extraña novela, sobre un asesinato que no se sabe si fue hecho por una chica un poco fuera de sí o quizá por algo mucho, mucho peor.
Cuando leí Frozen Charlotte, no terminé asustada porque pasamos de posibles fantasmas asesinos a quizá un asesino psicópata. En The Boy Meets Girl Massacre pasa todo lo contrario. Sobra decir que terminé aterrada. Ese dicho de “témele más a los vivos que a los muertos”, no funciona conmigo. Tráeme un asesino serial con hacha o alguna cosa más cruel además de mucha, mucha sangre y no me da miedo, incluso lo disfruto un poco (¿ves porque Seth Bishop, Serial Hottie no me parecía raro?). Pero dame siquiera la idea que hay un fantasma en la historia y estoy gimiendo de miedo. Gritar es para valientes, gemir de miedo es cuando ya estás a punto de hacerte pis. Voy a defenderme un poquito: mi miedo no es irracional, quizá esté canalizando a Marshall (How I Met Your Mother) pero ¡Los fantasmas existen! Vivo en una casa donde han intentado asfixiarme, donde me han hablado cuando no había nadie… entre otras cosa más. Es un poquito difícil no creer en fantasmas después de todo eso.
Sin querer este año estoy explorando un género al que era bastante reacia a leer: Terror. Ainslie Hogarth no solo maneja en la historia la probabilidad de un fantasma sino también de una enfermedad mental, lo que me hizo a mí como lectora asustarme aún más. Me dejó pensando varias veces: ¿debo asustarme? ¿No debo asustarme? No sé si la palabra Terror sea correcta para calificar a The Boy Meets Girl Massacre o quizá suspenso, porque sabes lo que pasará al final, la historia solo nos dice cómo es que posiblemente haya pasado. El saber da mucho más miedo que el no saber.
La narración de Ainslie Hogarth es impecable, otra de las pocas veces que sentí tanta emoción al leer un libro, de esos donde podía sentir cada párrafo era diferente, fue con A Song for Ella Grey. Noelle tiene muchos cambios de humor algunos tan solo entre párrafo y párrafo, y se pueden sentir, mientras lees sabes que si ella estuviera hablando estaría gritando y después inmediatamente puedes sentir que se calma a pesar de que no se específica en la historia. No sé si ese tipo de manejar la historia tiene un nombre, pero si en mi básico conocimiento de literatura pude notarlo, estoy segura que Ainslie Hogarth es algo bastante especial.
Su talento aumenta cuando entiendes que la parte de “Annotated” no solo es una palabra de más en el título. Ainslie Hogarth no solo se metió en la cabeza de Noelle, sino también en la cabeza de un productor de cine y en la de un jefe de policía. Es impresionante como se nota en pequeñísimos fragmentos lo diferente de las personalidades.
Como cosa curiosa y un poco cruel de mi parte: Le recomiendo este libro a quienes todavía tienen la inocente idea de que las productoras hacen adaptaciones de libros porque aman a los lectores. En serio, todavía hay pobrecillos que creen que es por eso. The Boy Meets Girl Massacre les dará una pequeña idea de cómo es que funciona el mundo de Hollywood. Así algunos dejarían de quejarse tanto, la verdad
Ainslie Hogarth trae uno de los libros más interesantes y aterradores del año, solo me queda decir: LÉELO.
Recomiendo leer The Boy Meets Girl Massacre preferiblemente en versión física, tiene detalles que serán difíciles de apreciarlo en una versión digital. Y al ser una novela con toques comedia oscura retorcida, definitivamente no es para todo publico.
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botbooks's review against another edition
challenging
dark
mysterious
tense
slow-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.0
Was it gory as all get out? Yes. Did the story hold more than that? Not really. More questions than answers and made my scalp itch for days after. IYKYK
gabs_myfullbookshelf's review
1.0
I received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I'll get it out of the way right now, instead of tiptoeing around the fact throughout the review; I did not like this book. In the slightest. Many parts disgusted me; so did the main character. However, maybe other people will like it; if you are not deterred by extremely gruesome details, that is. And a main character that is just not a likeable person at all.
Let's start with Noelle, because that's the shorter complaint. She's a beyotch. Plain and simple. She's a beyotch to her friend. Simply because he likes her; so what's the natural reaction to that? Taunt him until he can't stand you so much that the crush goes away. Excellent deduction, Noelle! < /sarcasm>.
She's a beyotch to her dad. Who, by the way, is absolutely disgusting. He refers to his diarrhea as burning liquid at one point. I get that he has medical issues (kind of, but that's a spoiler) but DEAR GOD NO.
Anyway....she's really, really rude to him. She says she hates him, that she wants him to die. That is just an awful thing to say, especially about her father, who obviously loves her--even though he is definitely gross.
She also likes to pick at her head, and the descriptions she has for what occurs to it are absolutely disgusting. You know what I discovered about myself while reading this book? That when a person describes their head wound as salsa a small part of me shrivels up and dies.
This book is extremely graphic and gross. The very backstory is disgusting; there's cannibalism and rotting bodies and abductions and it's enough to make me want to barf. The descriptions are what really makes it horrible; perhaps if everything had been a little less vividly described I would not have had such a stomach ache while reading the story, but that didn't happen, and I felt like I constantly needed to go to some gore-less happy place while reading.
But it gets worse. Oh, so very worse. Mostly because of the animal cruelty. (Though I will admit, I could never tell if it actually happened or Noelle was just going crazy and thought it happened. Either way, it was very disturbing to read.) The spoiler is both well, a spoiler, and a rant. So beware.
This may be my least favorite book I've read all year. In fact, there is not a 'may be' about it, it really is. I didn't like it whatsoever, and I was glad when I had finished.
I'll get it out of the way right now, instead of tiptoeing around the fact throughout the review; I did not like this book. In the slightest. Many parts disgusted me; so did the main character. However, maybe other people will like it; if you are not deterred by extremely gruesome details, that is. And a main character that is just not a likeable person at all.
Let's start with Noelle, because that's the shorter complaint. She's a beyotch. Plain and simple. She's a beyotch to her friend. Simply because he likes her; so what's the natural reaction to that? Taunt him until he can't stand you so much that the crush goes away. Excellent deduction, Noelle! < /sarcasm>.
She's a beyotch to her dad. Who, by the way, is absolutely disgusting. He refers to his diarrhea as burning liquid at one point. I get that he has medical issues (kind of, but that's a spoiler) but DEAR GOD NO.
Anyway....she's really, really rude to him. She says she hates him, that she wants him to die. That is just an awful thing to say, especially about her father, who obviously loves her--even though he is definitely gross.
She also likes to pick at her head, and the descriptions she has for what occurs to it are absolutely disgusting. You know what I discovered about myself while reading this book? That when a person describes their head wound as salsa a small part of me shrivels up and dies.
This book is extremely graphic and gross. The very backstory is disgusting; there's cannibalism and rotting bodies and abductions and it's enough to make me want to barf. The descriptions are what really makes it horrible; perhaps if everything had been a little less vividly described I would not have had such a stomach ache while reading the story, but that didn't happen, and I felt like I constantly needed to go to some gore-less happy place while reading.
But it gets worse. Oh, so very worse. Mostly because of the animal cruelty. (Though I will admit, I could never tell if it actually happened or Noelle was just going crazy and thought it happened. Either way, it was very disturbing to read.) The spoiler is both well, a spoiler, and a rant. So beware.
Spoiler
A FRICKING KITTY GETS HURT. YOU DON'T HURT KITTIES. ESPECIALLY THIS CUTE LITTLE CAT. IT DIDN'T DESERVE TO GET HURT, THE CATS WERE THE ONE THING ABOUT THIS BOOK I KINDA LIKED.This may be my least favorite book I've read all year. In fact, there is not a 'may be' about it, it really is. I didn't like it whatsoever, and I was glad when I had finished.
brandinh's review
Well, that was an…experience.
First of all, TRIGGER WARNING for cruelty to animals, cats specifically.
This reminded me too much of Ask Alice and Jay’s Journal, which I HATED. Noelle’s voice didn’t ring true, even though she is supposed to be obviously experiencing mental health issues.
Nevertheless, I didn’t hate it. I was hooked and found it hard to stop reading. A lot of teens will love this book.
First of all, TRIGGER WARNING for cruelty to animals, cats specifically.
This reminded me too much of Ask Alice and Jay’s Journal, which I HATED. Noelle’s voice didn’t ring true, even though she is supposed to be obviously experiencing mental health issues.
Nevertheless, I didn’t hate it. I was hooked and found it hard to stop reading. A lot of teens will love this book.
tjlcody's review
4.0
This was an interesting read.
It dragged in a couple of places, but it didn't bother me as much as it could have, since this was written in diary format and, in the interest of realism, sometimes a person's entries aren't always going to be action-packed.
Noelle was an interesting protagonist because her voice came off as a bit... Odd. The way she wrote, the language she used- she almost came off as a bit childish, a bit younger than she actually was. Which I liked, because I felt like it made her unique, and definitely made the situation a lot more eerie, especially when stuff began to happen.
The story was certainly scary in some parts, but it seemed to be focused less on the outright horror than it was the threat of it lurking around the corner. Which, again, makes sense, since this is all stuff getting translated from real life into a diary, and the audience has to infer a lot of things from the way Noelle writes them.
Good read.
It dragged in a couple of places, but it didn't bother me as much as it could have, since this was written in diary format and, in the interest of realism, sometimes a person's entries aren't always going to be action-packed.
Noelle was an interesting protagonist because her voice came off as a bit... Odd. The way she wrote, the language she used- she almost came off as a bit childish, a bit younger than she actually was. Which I liked, because I felt like it made her unique, and definitely made the situation a lot more eerie, especially when stuff began to happen.
The story was certainly scary in some parts, but it seemed to be focused less on the outright horror than it was the threat of it lurking around the corner. Which, again, makes sense, since this is all stuff getting translated from real life into a diary, and the audience has to infer a lot of things from the way Noelle writes them.
Good read.
lwerner817's review
5.0
I hate myself that I enjoyed this book. Definitely the weirdest book I've ever read.
Do not read if you like cats.
Do not read if you like cats.
l_aydag7's review
4.0
Some parts made me cringe but in a good way. It was spooky and morbid and i really enjoyed reading it
_ajdz_'s review against another edition
dark
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
2.25
Content Warnings
Graphic: Gore
Moderate: Violence and Animal cruelty
foreveryoungadult's review
Graded By: Savannah
Cover Story: Coffee Stains (hopefully...)
BFF Charm: Nay
Swoonworthy Scale: 1
Talky Talk: Dear Diary
Bonus Factor/Anti-Bonus Factor: American Horror Story
Relationship Status: Never Look Back
Read the full book report here.
Cover Story: Coffee Stains (hopefully...)
BFF Charm: Nay
Swoonworthy Scale: 1
Talky Talk: Dear Diary
Bonus Factor/Anti-Bonus Factor: American Horror Story
Relationship Status: Never Look Back
Read the full book report here.
gonsiorc's review
4.0
Part of this book was so disgusting I had to stop reading for fear of puking my brains out. Super descriptive blood and gore. I really liked the pacing though. It built up so slowly and then I raced through the last 100 pages.