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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
Just didn't do it for me - I didn't really care for or about Jenna and I never found myself caught up in her world.
adventurous
dark
medium-paced
fantastic exploration of what makes up the human mind; what makes us human. loved it.
this one was recommended to me by ruhama. interesting read! a girl wakes up from a coma and feels strange in her own body. why can she remember (word-for-word) the entire text of walden and yet not remember if she has any friends? i'd tell you more, but i don't want to ruin the plot. very thought-provoking.
I liked this story a great deal more than I'd expected.
The reader figures out pretty quickly that Jenna is some sort of re-animated creature - a zombie/Frankenstein's Monster/cyborg thingy. I had figured the following: Jenna would go all crazy monster but would grow up and become not-so-crazy, there would be a love triangle (they have become the bane of my reading existence), there'd be some battling the parents for supremacy followed by some death and it would all be stupid.
I was wrong! Hooray!
I appreciated the lack of love triangle the most, but I also enjoyed the struggles between Jenna and her parents. It wasn't all black and white, good and bad. Her parents weren't necessarily evil; in Jenna's view, they were misguided but for others, they weren't. I liked seeing that dichotomy in a YA book.
I really liked the reader. She started out with dead-teen-voice but as the character grew, the reader became more involved, more animated. She did individual voices for each of the characters. She was wonderful to hear which was refreshing because the bane of my listening experience is the dead-teen-voice readers.
The reader figures out pretty quickly that Jenna is some sort of re-animated creature - a zombie/Frankenstein's Monster/cyborg thingy. I had figured the following: Jenna would go all crazy monster but would grow up and become not-so-crazy, there would be a love triangle (they have become the bane of my reading existence), there'd be some battling the parents for supremacy followed by some death and it would all be stupid.
I was wrong! Hooray!
I appreciated the lack of love triangle the most, but I also enjoyed the struggles between Jenna and her parents. It wasn't all black and white, good and bad. Her parents weren't necessarily evil; in Jenna's view, they were misguided but for others, they weren't. I liked seeing that dichotomy in a YA book.
I really liked the reader. She started out with dead-teen-voice but as the character grew, the reader became more involved, more animated. She did individual voices for each of the characters. She was wonderful to hear which was refreshing because the bane of my listening experience is the dead-teen-voice readers.
Interesting concept. I'd say 3.5 stars. Quick read but would have liked a bit more character depths, I think.
*4.5/5 stars*
“Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.”
Oh man, this was a strange one. How can a book be simple, yet complicated at the same time?
So strange that I don't even know how to rate it. I'm only sure that Pearson is a very talented author. Her Remnant Chronicles are among my all time favourite series and this one is so so different from it, in a good way. It shows that Pearson has many great, unique ideas.
I can't say too much about this book without comletely spoiling everything. The Adoration of Jenna Fox is a very quiet, thoughtful book. It's largely about family, unconditional love/adoration, identity and all the life's grey areas. It's a mystery that makes you think. An unusual book.
I really loved the first half of the book, the beginning grabbed me. Somewhere towards the last part of the book it dragged just a tiny bit for me, but then the ending and the epilogue caught me completely by surprise! I don't think I've ever read a book like this before. It's the kind of read that will either really work for you, or make you totally confused. I love these type of books. I'd really love to read such types of YA more often, there's just something so... quietly intelligent and atmospheric about it.
I really liked the characters, basically all of them. But especially Jenna and Lily, her grandmother. There's a bit of romance too, a very soft and kind one, but I was glad that it never overshadowed the themes of family and self identity.
A very thought provoking book for me. Recommended if you don't mind slow moving books and want to read something a little bit different.
“Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.”
“Faith and science, I have learned, are two sides of the same coin, separated by an expanse so small, but wide enough that one side can't see the other. They don't know they are connected.”
Oh man, this was a strange one. How can a book be simple, yet complicated at the same time?
So strange that I don't even know how to rate it. I'm only sure that Pearson is a very talented author. Her Remnant Chronicles are among my all time favourite series and this one is so so different from it, in a good way. It shows that Pearson has many great, unique ideas.
I can't say too much about this book without comletely spoiling everything. The Adoration of Jenna Fox is a very quiet, thoughtful book. It's largely about family, unconditional love/adoration, identity and all the life's grey areas. It's a mystery that makes you think. An unusual book.
I really loved the first half of the book, the beginning grabbed me. Somewhere towards the last part of the book it dragged just a tiny bit for me, but then the ending and the epilogue caught me completely by surprise! I don't think I've ever read a book like this before. It's the kind of read that will either really work for you, or make you totally confused. I love these type of books. I'd really love to read such types of YA more often, there's just something so... quietly intelligent and atmospheric about it.
I really liked the characters, basically all of them. But especially Jenna and Lily, her grandmother. There's a bit of romance too, a very soft and kind one, but I was glad that it never overshadowed the themes of family and self identity.
A very thought provoking book for me. Recommended if you don't mind slow moving books and want to read something a little bit different.
“Where we are going, I don't know. It doesn't seem to be the place that is important but the steps in between.”
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes