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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
Mind blowing. I know I give lots of books five stars but each book is so unique and I get into them so much. This book was crazy- it made me think about things I never would have imagined. It made me reflect on myself and my values and on how crazy it is to live in such a technological world full of science and wonder and the want for more more more...
How far would you go? How far would I go? For my child? All. The. Way.
I really do enjoy "medical thrillers". This was simplistic in many ways, but still thought provoking.
I really do enjoy "medical thrillers". This was simplistic in many ways, but still thought provoking.
dark
emotional
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Like all good scifi, this questions what it means to be human.
this book really gives you a lot to think about. the ethics of what we can and should do was nicely covered for a YA book. a great read.
It took me more than a week to read this book, and its barely 200 pages long. For some reson I never realy got into the story and it bored me most of the time I was reading it so my mind would wonder on other things and I wouldn't realy understand what was happening in the book. I don't know why this happened because the story line is quite good; I mean, a girl who wakes up from a coma and doesnt remember anything and is treated more like some holy god that cannot be seen by the rest of the world than an ordinary teenage girl. Maybe I didn't realy connect with this book because of the way it was written, maybe because I didn't find the characters what so ever realistic or maybe it was simply because it reminded me too much of Skinned, which I enjoyed much much more. I'm the kind of person who has to finish a book once I start it, but those who aren't probably wouldn't even bother to finish it. I don't realy recommend this book unless you're extremely into medical, philosophical stuff, but if you are, this book might be for you, just not for me.
very thought-provoking. the romance wasn't really necessary, but that didn't bug me too much. it wasn't the focus, and I appreciate the questions this book tries to ask.
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
A reread of a childhood favorite of mine, and one that panned out better than expected. When I have memories of a book I read as a child, I am always apprehensive to replace them with more recent memories. But I am glad I read this one, because I feel like I got a lot more out of it as an adult.
Maybe it’s because I read this book 8 years after its release (2008), or maybe it’s because I’ve read a lot of books and articles dealing with identity theory and cyborg theory, that I didn’t find it all that good. Not just that, but I actually found it tedious, boring, and drowning in clichés. The basic premise of the book is that Jenna Fox awakes after an accident that leaves her without any memories. The book takes place in a dystopian-ish society in the not-so-distant future, so naturally, THERE’S A TWIST. Perhaps when the book was released in 2008 it was more groundbreaking, but the issues that it tries to deal with have been better dealt with in more recently released books. But the biggest issue for me is that Jenna Fox is boring. I was audibly groaning with each cliché: a passage talking about how she only feels human when she’s kissing Ethan (YAWN), how she wears clothes that “show off her perfect tiny waist,” and, my favorite phrase in YA, she’s “not like other girls.” Call me crazy, but I don’t think another book about a tiny-waisted, blonde-hair, blue-eyed, upper-class, white girl is exactly ground-breaking. I get it—this book is supposed to be about bio-ethics, and about the blurring line between technology and humanity, but it’s just poorly executed. There’s also the issue of pacing—the book tends to drag on, and while normally I’m a fan of the slow burn in a novel, as opposed to non-stop action, the “twists” were so predictable, that there was never any true payoff. Not to mention the fact that this book constantly beats you over the head with the “moral” with phrases like “I decide that sometimes definitions are wrong. Even if they’re written in a dictionary. Identities aren’t always distinct. Sometimes they are wrapped up with others. Sometimes, for a few minutes, maybe they can even be shared”; or “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 even know they’re connected.” WE GET IT! YOU DON'T NEED TO SPELL IT OUT FOR US!!!!