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3.35 AVERAGE
3.35 AVERAGE
An interesting idea (with a good underlying message about financial responsibility), but the writing fell a little flat for me. I do think my older kids will like it and plan to pass it along to them.
I thought this book had a super awesome premise--if a family went over their spending/debt/credit limit, one of their kids had to go to a workhouse to help alleviate the debt to get the spending/debt/credit under control.
But that's about where I stopped being interested. Nothing else really made sense after that. None of the conflicts that were brought up were really addressed.
But that's about where I stopped being interested. Nothing else really made sense after that. None of the conflicts that were brought up were really addressed.
I great book for a quick read and a good place to start in the dystopian genre
I read this a few years ago. I don't know how I found it, but I got it from my library and read the whole thing in probably two or three days. Definitely a page-turner.
As a parent I was a bit offended by how parents were portrayed in this story as not being as smart as their children. It was an interesting plot. I liked how it developed.
This was a decent book. Great concept and Landon pulled it off pretty well. There were some small annoyances, plot holes, characters that were meh, but for the most part, I was pretty impressed. This book is geared toward tweens, so I wasn't expecting it to be as good as it was.
Also reviewed on the blog:
http://gloriousbooks.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-limit-by-kristen-landon.html
I loved the truth behind the story of this book.
The main character, Matt, and his family have to be careful in how much money they spend a month in case they go over their monthly limit of debt.
Nowadays, all lot of people, especially the younger generations, have the attitude of needing instant gratification. The attitude that if we want something, we get it straight away instead of waiting for it, even if it’s something we can most definitely afford. We are all guilty of it I think, one way or another.
Doesn’t it feel better though, to wait for a little while? So that when we do get what we want, it feels like a bigger deal because we have been patient and saved that bit more money. Like me waiting for a month to buy any books. I save that bit more money, it feels great when I do buy some books like it’s a sort of reward for being patient and I get to catch up on my reading pile in the meantime!
This book gets that message across perfectly. If Matt doesn’t save money in the smallest – or not so small – of ways to get his family back under ‘The Limit’ then he doesn’t get to see his family again. Getting back to his family is the ultimate reward.
However, I couldn’t really get into the book as much as I wished to. I appreciated some of the humour in it and the message and all but at times the book just…dragged. Nothing really exciting happened, or nothing that had any real consequence at least. The story ran out of steam after a while until the ending came.
The ending was….okay. It could have been a whole lot better. But it wasn’t, because nothing happened. Again. It was just the same problem, over and over.
Overall though, it was okay and the message behind the story was great.
http://gloriousbooks.blogspot.com/2011/02/review-limit-by-kristen-landon.html
I loved the truth behind the story of this book.
The main character, Matt, and his family have to be careful in how much money they spend a month in case they go over their monthly limit of debt.
Nowadays, all lot of people, especially the younger generations, have the attitude of needing instant gratification. The attitude that if we want something, we get it straight away instead of waiting for it, even if it’s something we can most definitely afford. We are all guilty of it I think, one way or another.
Doesn’t it feel better though, to wait for a little while? So that when we do get what we want, it feels like a bigger deal because we have been patient and saved that bit more money. Like me waiting for a month to buy any books. I save that bit more money, it feels great when I do buy some books like it’s a sort of reward for being patient and I get to catch up on my reading pile in the meantime!
This book gets that message across perfectly. If Matt doesn’t save money in the smallest – or not so small – of ways to get his family back under ‘The Limit’ then he doesn’t get to see his family again. Getting back to his family is the ultimate reward.
However, I couldn’t really get into the book as much as I wished to. I appreciated some of the humour in it and the message and all but at times the book just…dragged. Nothing really exciting happened, or nothing that had any real consequence at least. The story ran out of steam after a while until the ending came.
The ending was….okay. It could have been a whole lot better. But it wasn’t, because nothing happened. Again. It was just the same problem, over and over.
Overall though, it was okay and the message behind the story was great.