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3.45 AVERAGE
3.45 AVERAGE
I am not sure whether or not this book is banned, but I do know that I found it in my school library in 8th grade and could not put it down. Now, I live for the unnatural, frankly a bit creepy and definitely abnormal plots of books of this genre, however I really wasn't expecting... well... this. Don't get me wrong, I loved the book it's just it was one of the first abnormal books I read and though I ate it up like a starved kitten I still think about it sometimes... six years later.
Mostly I only think about the line about her stepmom sucking her dads soul out of his you know what but that's beside the point.
Over all great book, would recommend but not to a twelve year old.
Mostly I only think about the line about her stepmom sucking her dads soul out of his you know what but that's beside the point.
Over all great book, would recommend but not to a twelve year old.
dark
emotional
hopeful
sad
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I would never of picked this book up if I'd known about the cousin thing before hand which would of been a shame as I really ended up enjoying it.
stopped listening at 25%
wasn’t the book’s fault, found it funny and interesting
but if you think my anxious panicky brain can read anything remotely related to the world ending atm, well.
wasn’t the book’s fault, found it funny and interesting
but if you think my anxious panicky brain can read anything remotely related to the world ending atm, well.
3.5 Actually it didn’t bother me as much as one might think. I think she used it purposefully to be the juxtaposition between what is “shocking” and what is actually harrowing. It was well done, even if anorexia seemed an excuse for non-pregnancy... Another teen love story would not have worked. What I tended to find annoying was how I thought characters would not behave...e.g. I did not think Daisy would have left Piper with so little fanfare all on her own without a fight!
This book has an extremely unique language that pulled me into it on the first page.
This is a cool YA book about a group of cousins who try to survive on their own during WWIII. Although there's a little incest, the story is appropriate for kids. One of my junior boys loved it as much as I did.
Dang! Do you ever have a problem with a book afterward where you didn't especially like where the book went but in the end you can't stop thinking about it? It was so messed up where this book went and it tricked you about it. Every synopsis talks about how it's some girl in a war but that's not what it's about at all. Plus there were about a million cliche teen themes crammed into this thing. Apocalypse, eating disorders, evil stepmothers, telepathy, us vs. them, first sexual experiences... incest?!
3.5 Sterne
Das Buch hat einige außergewöhnliche Momente und vor allem Teil 2 (eine Art Epilog) ist so eindrücklich, dass ich die ganze Zeit beim Lesen eine Gänsehaut hatte.
Auch die Atmosphäre wird immer gut rüber gebracht. Man kann sich wirklich alles bildlich vorstellen, als ob man einen Film sehen würde.
Allerdings fand ich die Erzählweise und Teenagergedanken von Daisy stellenweise so nervig, dass ich das Buch dann irgendwie doch eher ungern gelesen habe. Außerdem fand ich es nicht ideal, dass sich die Liebesgeschichte zwischen Cousins abspielt. Und auch wie die neunjährige Piper in Bezug zu jungen Soldaten gesetzt wurde... Es hat sich sehr falsch angefühlt.
Alles in allem würde ich eher die Verfilmung empfehlen. Dort ist Edmond zwar ziemlich anders als im Buch, aber allgemein hat mir der Film dann trotzdem besser gefallen.
Das Buch hat einige außergewöhnliche Momente und vor allem Teil 2 (eine Art Epilog) ist so eindrücklich, dass ich die ganze Zeit beim Lesen eine Gänsehaut hatte.
Auch die Atmosphäre wird immer gut rüber gebracht. Man kann sich wirklich alles bildlich vorstellen, als ob man einen Film sehen würde.
Allerdings fand ich die Erzählweise und Teenagergedanken von Daisy stellenweise so nervig, dass ich das Buch dann irgendwie doch eher ungern gelesen habe. Außerdem fand ich es nicht ideal, dass sich die Liebesgeschichte zwischen Cousins abspielt. Und auch wie die neunjährige Piper in Bezug zu jungen Soldaten gesetzt wurde... Es hat sich sehr falsch angefühlt.
Alles in allem würde ich eher die Verfilmung empfehlen. Dort ist Edmond zwar ziemlich anders als im Buch, aber allgemein hat mir der Film dann trotzdem besser gefallen.
I read this book for the book bingo we're doing at school. It was a quick read to do with a war that takes place now. Daisy goes to England to stay we cousins she never met and then has to move houses with the youngest girl cousin, because the house is being used for soldiers. The rest of the book is about Piper and Dasiy's quest to get home.