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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
I don't think I've been this angry over a book since the racist drivel that was [b:First Star I See Tonight|24948069|First Star I See Tonight (Chicago Stars, #8)|Susan Elizabeth Phillips|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1455454019s/24948069.jpg|44607233]
The teenagers in this book were unreal. That isn't an euphemism. Scratch that, none of the characters in this book were even the least bit realistic. Maybe Ella's mom, but she was only in the book for a few lines.
Everyone else were caricatures of whatever role they were supposed to play; the evil step sisters, the vane and insensitive former model of a step mom, the deadbeat father, the teenage manwhore of a hero, the airhead actress, etc. The stepsisters were ridiculously cruel. Unbelievably so. Well, one of them anyway . The other was complicit. The step mom allowed her daughter to bully Ella and made constant insensitive remarks about her scars. Her dad was useless. The hero was an asshole who treated women who weren't the heroine like garbage (are we supposed to swoon over that fact?) His fake girlfriend was a manipulative maneater who was also supposed to be desperate and dumb (make up your mind, is she desperate for dick or is she a maneater? Is she manipulative and conniving or is she dumb as a box of rocks?)
Forget the fact that the kids in her school were either pointing at her and laughing or said outright cruel things to her face. Never mind that not one person befriended her, or that no one spoke up when the other kids bullied her because apparently all teenagers are either assholes or wimps.
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Okay. So someone really close to me has burn scars covering over 35% of their body. I am intimately familiar with the pain, both physical and emotional, that all of that entails. I was there when, as a self conscious teenager, they worried about their best friends finding out. I know how hard they hid, and continue to hide, their scars. I know how much they struggle to find clothes to wear in 90 degree summers that offer enough coverage yet are also thin enough so they don't overheat. Even after knowing them my entire life, and being so damn close to them, they're still self conscious around me when their scars are exposed. This shit... The shit the author made these characters say.. I just...
It's one thing to write about bullying in order to raise awareness of its consequences, but it's entirely another thing to be exploitative in the process. And that's what this book was.
You know how there's a genre of film called torture porn? And there was this whole outroar over a certain season of the Walking Dead because of the way one of the main characters murders were too graphic? Well, the shit these characters, the step sister but especially her stepmom because she wasn't trying to be vicious, spewed at the heroine were the book version of it. The author absolutely failed to approach the topic with care. And in her failure to do so, she became the very person she wrote her villains to be. I honest to God can't even imagine how a burn victim would feel reading this shit. I hope one never does.
I recommend this book to no one.
The teenagers in this book were unreal. That isn't an euphemism. Scratch that, none of the characters in this book were even the least bit realistic. Maybe Ella's mom, but she was only in the book for a few lines.
Everyone else were caricatures of whatever role they were supposed to play; the evil step sisters, the vane and insensitive former model of a step mom, the deadbeat father, the teenage manwhore of a hero, the airhead actress, etc. The stepsisters were ridiculously cruel. Unbelievably so. Well, one of them anyway . The other was complicit. The step mom allowed her daughter to bully Ella and made constant insensitive remarks about her scars. Her dad was useless. The hero was an asshole who treated women who weren't the heroine like garbage (are we supposed to swoon over that fact?) His fake girlfriend was a manipulative maneater who was also supposed to be desperate and dumb (make up your mind, is she desperate for dick or is she a maneater? Is she manipulative and conniving or is she dumb as a box of rocks?)
Forget the fact that the kids in her school were either pointing at her and laughing or said outright cruel things to her face. Never mind that not one person befriended her, or that no one spoke up when the other kids bullied her because apparently all teenagers are either assholes or wimps.
Aghggugrdhyrfjkgxigxigxigxigxig
Okay. So someone really close to me has burn scars covering over 35% of their body. I am intimately familiar with the pain, both physical and emotional, that all of that entails. I was there when, as a self conscious teenager, they worried about their best friends finding out. I know how hard they hid, and continue to hide, their scars. I know how much they struggle to find clothes to wear in 90 degree summers that offer enough coverage yet are also thin enough so they don't overheat. Even after knowing them my entire life, and being so damn close to them, they're still self conscious around me when their scars are exposed. This shit... The shit the author made these characters say.. I just...
It's one thing to write about bullying in order to raise awareness of its consequences, but it's entirely another thing to be exploitative in the process. And that's what this book was.
You know how there's a genre of film called torture porn? And there was this whole outroar over a certain season of the Walking Dead because of the way one of the main characters murders were too graphic? Well, the shit these characters, the step sister but especially her stepmom because she wasn't trying to be vicious, spewed at the heroine were the book version of it. The author absolutely failed to approach the topic with care. And in her failure to do so, she became the very person she wrote her villains to be. I honest to God can't even imagine how a burn victim would feel reading this shit. I hope one never does.
I recommend this book to no one.
I liked this one, although my expectations were not really met.. but that was my mistake, I hoped this Cinderella-themed story between a 21 year old and 18 year old woul have been less drama-filled, but as I recognized during the reading, a Cinderella-story can't really develop without drama.
All in all, it was a nice and pleasant read, a bit over the top and unbelievable, but that comes with the Cinderella-theme.
All in all, it was a nice and pleasant read, a bit over the top and unbelievable, but that comes with the Cinderella-theme.
You know when a book makes you all giddy and happy? ? When you can't make out enough words than squals and maybe whale-like snorting? Do whales actually snort? well, you get my drift. When you sit there and grin like a fool and your face are glued to the damn screen and/or book because you have to know what is going to go next or so help me? That was this book. This book delivered everything, i laughed, i snorted, i cried... i got a littel furious at times. This book had it all and it was just a perfect book. Not too long, not too short. Funny, wierd, awkward...and all thoose cheesy things. But also, touching subjects about feeling out of place, feel as people could and/or would never love one just because of how the person looks... but then touching the subject of the inside, that the inside matters so so much i can't even explain. But, not only that.. the fact that not all families have the perfect families. Not because people nessesarily are evil, but people are different and sometimes it takes alot to understand and let someone in, to love one self. Espesically when one self feel damanged, on the outside and on the inside... that is very important. it touched so many subjects, but it also touched my heart in many ways...i guess you have figured it out by now on my little rant? I just loved it, i got sour and pouted, cried a little... i cried for Ella, i also cried for Cinder.. they felt so alive to me. Espesically Ella, the way she struggled, the way she felt somewhat hate against her familiy... or, steph-familiy? is that a thing to say? but also opened up to try, to give second chances... to try to find her happiness and her place in the new life that was given her so to speak.
But it also made me wanna read The Cinder Chronicles, wich i for a long time thought it was the one from Marissa Meyer but i am talking about The Cinder Chronicles wich are written by L.P Morgan, so i am going to go and see if i can find it and put it on my tbr phile.
But it also made me wanna read The Cinder Chronicles, wich i for a long time thought it was the one from Marissa Meyer but i am talking about The Cinder Chronicles wich are written by L.P Morgan, so i am going to go and see if i can find it and put it on my tbr phile.
ESTE ES EL LIBRO MÁS TIERNO QUE HE LEÍDO Y LO AMÉ DE PRINCIPIO A FIN.
Una historia preciosa, llena de emociones y con una protagonista femenina super fuerte, un poco rota por todas las cosas que ha tenido que pasar, pero super admirable. Una de las pocas que me ha llegado a gustar y adorar, la amo akdksldks.
Un protagonista varón super lindo, tierno y lo mejor de todo un FANBOY AKDLLSLDALA, EN SERIO LO AMÉ CON LOCURA. YO QUIERO UN BRIAN EN MI VIDA POR FAVOR.
Juntos son una de las parejas más lindas de la historia y sin lugar a dudas una de mis favoritas. Los amo.
Super recomendado este libro. Por favor léanlo, lloren en las partes en las que lloré, pero acaben con la sonrisa de idiota que tengo en este momento.
4.5/5 sencillamente <3
Una historia preciosa, llena de emociones y con una protagonista femenina super fuerte, un poco rota por todas las cosas que ha tenido que pasar, pero super admirable. Una de las pocas que me ha llegado a gustar y adorar, la amo akdksldks.
Un protagonista varón super lindo, tierno y lo mejor de todo un FANBOY AKDLLSLDALA, EN SERIO LO AMÉ CON LOCURA. YO QUIERO UN BRIAN EN MI VIDA POR FAVOR.
Juntos son una de las parejas más lindas de la historia y sin lugar a dudas una de mis favoritas. Los amo.
Super recomendado este libro. Por favor léanlo, lloren en las partes en las que lloré, pero acaben con la sonrisa de idiota que tengo en este momento.
4.5/5 sencillamente <3