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sonshinelibrarian's review
5.0
This was such an illuminating look into the life of the two sisters before the beginning of Mind Games. I loved it!
I also loved reading it with my sister while we were waiting for a play to start. We have almost the exact same reading pace on things like this and it was so much fun to read it in tandem.
I also loved reading it with my sister while we were waiting for a play to start. We have almost the exact same reading pace on things like this and it was so much fun to read it in tandem.
taschima's review
3.0
FIA:"I proved my worth.
Now we all know what I can do, how easily I can win. And we all know that I will do it for Annie, that I will do whatever I have to for her to be happy. Sweet-like-honey Clarice will keep her happy. The school will take care of her.
And I will do what they tell me. My future stretches out, a continuous, unending path of wrong. I cannot see any way out. I have no power in this game. They hold all the cards."
Annie and Fia, the Mind Games novella, is a nice look into the events preceding the Mind Games series. It is very short, incredibly so, so if I were to buy it I would only pay about $0.99 (though I got it for free at amazon.com so if you can get it like that definitely go for it). In it you get to see Annie and Fia before they made it into the Keane school and four months after. The timeline alternates with the characters, with Annie you get to view the world before they made it into the Keane school which shows you the many reasons Annie wanted into the school so bad, and in the "after" entering the Keane school perspective comes from Fia.
I've read both Mind Games and Perfect Lies before reading this novella and while reading those books my favorite character alternates between first being Fia to then Annie in Perfect Lies. In this novella I prefer Fia over Annie. Fia is frank and a little on edge but her first priority is always to protect Annie and make her happy. On the other hand Annie seems to only think about herself, not ever considering how Fia feels or listening to her when she gives advice. Annie is a little self-obsessed but then again she watched as her parents died and no one believed her when she said it was going to happen so I could understand her need to go somewhere, anywhere, where she might feel included.
Something the novella lacked was an honest conversation between Annie and Fia about what they can do. They never really discussed it with each other and we never see Annie recognize the reason Fia freaked out before their parents left their house. A big miss.
Overall the short story was nice but it didn't really add anything (absolutely anything) new to the original series that would necessitate the creation of it. It is nice read because it lets us read a little more about Annie and Fia's past but I think that past was covered nicely enough in the original novels.
Annie"If I stay here, I will be forever cloaked in rumor and pathetic tragedy. Maybe I deserve that. I was never supposed to see anything. Maybe God made me blind on purpose. Seeing ruined everything, and there's no way to get any of my life back. No way to get my parents back.
But I want-need-a different future than this. I have to get away from this place. From who I am here. I have to get away from myself. At a new school in a new city, I can be a new Annie."
Now we all know what I can do, how easily I can win. And we all know that I will do it for Annie, that I will do whatever I have to for her to be happy. Sweet-like-honey Clarice will keep her happy. The school will take care of her.
And I will do what they tell me. My future stretches out, a continuous, unending path of wrong. I cannot see any way out. I have no power in this game. They hold all the cards."
Annie and Fia, the Mind Games novella, is a nice look into the events preceding the Mind Games series. It is very short, incredibly so, so if I were to buy it I would only pay about $0.99 (though I got it for free at amazon.com so if you can get it like that definitely go for it). In it you get to see Annie and Fia before they made it into the Keane school and four months after. The timeline alternates with the characters, with Annie you get to view the world before they made it into the Keane school which shows you the many reasons Annie wanted into the school so bad, and in the "after" entering the Keane school perspective comes from Fia.
I've read both Mind Games and Perfect Lies before reading this novella and while reading those books my favorite character alternates between first being Fia to then Annie in Perfect Lies. In this novella I prefer Fia over Annie. Fia is frank and a little on edge but her first priority is always to protect Annie and make her happy. On the other hand Annie seems to only think about herself, not ever considering how Fia feels or listening to her when she gives advice. Annie is a little self-obsessed but then again she watched as her parents died and no one believed her when she said it was going to happen so I could understand her need to go somewhere, anywhere, where she might feel included.
Something the novella lacked was an honest conversation between Annie and Fia about what they can do. They never really discussed it with each other and we never see Annie recognize the reason Fia freaked out before their parents left their house. A big miss.
Overall the short story was nice but it didn't really add anything (absolutely anything) new to the original series that would necessitate the creation of it. It is nice read because it lets us read a little more about Annie and Fia's past but I think that past was covered nicely enough in the original novels.
Annie"If I stay here, I will be forever cloaked in rumor and pathetic tragedy. Maybe I deserve that. I was never supposed to see anything. Maybe God made me blind on purpose. Seeing ruined everything, and there's no way to get any of my life back. No way to get my parents back.
But I want-need-a different future than this. I have to get away from this place. From who I am here. I have to get away from myself. At a new school in a new city, I can be a new Annie."
thefox22's review
4.0
Actual rating: 3.5 stars!
I loved getting more background information on both of these girls! Although, I do love Fia more. Annie treated Fia like she was a problem, like she didn't know what she felt. She never listened to her sister every time Fia would tell her that something felt wrong. It sort of pissed me off. So, I'm kind of hoping book two will make me feel more warmly toward Annie. Because, at this point, she's the one at fault for how her sister turned out in my eyes.
I loved getting more background information on both of these girls! Although, I do love Fia more. Annie treated Fia like she was a problem, like she didn't know what she felt. She never listened to her sister every time Fia would tell her that something felt wrong. It sort of pissed me off. So, I'm kind of hoping book two will make me feel more warmly toward Annie. Because, at this point, she's the one at fault for how her sister turned out in my eyes.
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