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jasminenoack's review
5.0
This book is GENIUS. It NEEDS to live on TABLE!!!
I don't really know how to review this book, I feel like I may love it far too much to actually say anything coherent about it.
I made a comment earlier about how this book was for me what twilight was for Karen. Although likely better written but being in translation makes that comparison a bit tougher than I would like. What I meant was Karen talked about twilight being what it was like to be a 16 year old girl. I never really was that girl, I mean I haven't read twilight, but from the movie I can tell I never really was that. I use to have a friend in high school who constantly said that my life was like a romantic comedy, and the fact is he was right. I was one of those girls who was always starting something bound for failure (I have been known to plan break up dates far in advance, as a note this is awkward if the other person forgets). He always teased me that something would catch up with me and some super romantic event would happen and that would be the end of me. Clearly it has yet to catch up with me, and on some level I'm still doing it. This book is what it was like for me to be a 16 year old girl, or a 23 year old girl, or even a 5 year old girl. A constant weighing of whether a relationship is worth the effort that I am putting into it. A constant attempt to put more distance into the relationships. An attempt to be constantly mentally prepared for the failure. Both Sylvia and Ariel's sides felt intimately familiar to me. This being even more impressive seeing as the book was written by a man, yet he even caught the way girls feel about their bodies. Not to mention the I don't like you but I don't have anything better to do and today I would just like to be miserable if you don't mind feelings.
The book is written a bit skewed most of the big events occur in the first 20 pages and then they play out for the rest of the book. It would be almost impossible for me to spoil the book because it really isn't about outcomes (the author at one point says all american movies are predictable, there are a lot of digs at american/British culture) although it has them. It ends up being more like the real life version of the romantic comedies. Then the book ends reasonably quietly, "not with a bang but a whimper."
This is going to be a book like peter hamilton that I am going to keep forgetting i have finished and be excited to go read just to be disappointed. I know so many people complained about the length but I wish it was longer, except this was the exact amount of space required for the story. it's tough.
The only real problem I had was that there were 3 plot lines and I was super engaged with one and it would bug me if another plot line interrupted.
I don't really know how to review this book, I feel like I may love it far too much to actually say anything coherent about it.
I made a comment earlier about how this book was for me what twilight was for Karen. Although likely better written but being in translation makes that comparison a bit tougher than I would like. What I meant was Karen talked about twilight being what it was like to be a 16 year old girl. I never really was that girl, I mean I haven't read twilight, but from the movie I can tell I never really was that. I use to have a friend in high school who constantly said that my life was like a romantic comedy, and the fact is he was right. I was one of those girls who was always starting something bound for failure (I have been known to plan break up dates far in advance, as a note this is awkward if the other person forgets). He always teased me that something would catch up with me and some super romantic event would happen and that would be the end of me. Clearly it has yet to catch up with me, and on some level I'm still doing it. This book is what it was like for me to be a 16 year old girl, or a 23 year old girl, or even a 5 year old girl. A constant weighing of whether a relationship is worth the effort that I am putting into it. A constant attempt to put more distance into the relationships. An attempt to be constantly mentally prepared for the failure. Both Sylvia and Ariel's sides felt intimately familiar to me. This being even more impressive seeing as the book was written by a man, yet he even caught the way girls feel about their bodies. Not to mention the I don't like you but I don't have anything better to do and today I would just like to be miserable if you don't mind feelings.
The book is written a bit skewed most of the big events occur in the first 20 pages and then they play out for the rest of the book. It would be almost impossible for me to spoil the book because it really isn't about outcomes (the author at one point says all american movies are predictable, there are a lot of digs at american/British culture) although it has them. It ends up being more like the real life version of the romantic comedies. Then the book ends reasonably quietly, "not with a bang but a whimper."
This is going to be a book like peter hamilton that I am going to keep forgetting i have finished and be excited to go read just to be disappointed. I know so many people complained about the length but I wish it was longer, except this was the exact amount of space required for the story. it's tough.
The only real problem I had was that there were 3 plot lines and I was super engaged with one and it would bug me if another plot line interrupted.
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