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From Twinkle, with Love
by Sandhya Menon
Actual Rating: 3.5 stars
Yeah, 3.5 stars should round up to 4 stars, but whatever. I'm keeping it at 3 stars because 4 stars is like, I really enjoyed it but it didn't make it onto my 'favorites' list. And this book was good, but not really 4 stars. So I'm keeping it at 3.
This book was very Gatsby-like. A poor girl going to school among a bunch of rich people and just wanting to be like them and being in love with another character because he was like, her ticket to rising above and being just like everyone else. Ha, I kept thinking that she was more in love with the idea of him than the guy himself, which of course just made me think of Gatsby (anyone who's taken AP Lang will get that probably. If you haven't, then maybe you will maybe you won't, I don't know).
I think this book was great because of the character development. It's written like a diary and each entry is dedicated to a famous female director. I don't know if this is because of the format it's written in, but I just found Twinkle really annoying and whiny. The first like, half of the book was mostly just her complaining about her social status and how bad her life was. I mean, the plot was moving forward and things were happening, but among all that, she just complained about everything. It was annoying but it also made her character development extremely noticeable. I got a lot of second hand embarrassment for Twinkle, the kind where I cringe and internally die for her even though I didn't like her very much, but couldn't stop reading. But then at the end of the book, she got a lot better and I didn't really dislike her as much.
Overall, would I recommend it? I don't know. There are a lot of books I'd recommend before this, but it's not like this book is at the very bottom of my list. My list of, I don't know, recommendations? Good books? It was very much in the middle, not the best book I've read and not the worst, not really a book I'd recommend but not a book I wouldn't recommend, if that makes sense.
Yeah, 3.5 stars should round up to 4 stars, but whatever. I'm keeping it at 3 stars because 4 stars is like, I really enjoyed it but it didn't make it onto my 'favorites' list. And this book was good, but not really 4 stars. So I'm keeping it at 3.
This book was very Gatsby-like. A poor girl going to school among a bunch of rich people and just wanting to be like them and being in love with another character because he was like, her ticket to rising above and being just like everyone else. Ha, I kept thinking that she was more in love with the idea of him than the guy himself, which of course just made me think of Gatsby (anyone who's taken AP Lang will get that probably. If you haven't, then maybe you will maybe you won't, I don't know).
I think this book was great because of the character development. It's written like a diary and each entry is dedicated to a famous female director. I don't know if this is because of the format it's written in, but I just found Twinkle really annoying and whiny. The first like, half of the book was mostly just her complaining about her social status and how bad her life was. I mean, the plot was moving forward and things were happening, but among all that, she just complained about everything. It was annoying but it also made her character development extremely noticeable. I got a lot of second hand embarrassment for Twinkle, the kind where I cringe and internally die for her even though I didn't like her very much, but couldn't stop reading. But then at the end of the book, she got a lot better and I didn't really dislike her as much.
Overall, would I recommend it? I don't know. There are a lot of books I'd recommend before this, but it's not like this book is at the very bottom of my list. My list of, I don't know, recommendations? Good books? It was very much in the middle, not the best book I've read and not the worst, not really a book I'd recommend but not a book I wouldn't recommend, if that makes sense.