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A review by strangenessbooks
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr
5.0
I got advance copy of this book.
~The choice of Narration is really fits the book. I think it was important to have both point of view of the characters. I don’t think it would have been really possible to fully understand Jill and Mandy without it. Since both are so closed off and don’t communicate really with any of the other characters.
~Not initially liking Mandy that much, but she grew on me with the realisation that she had really been led astray by her mother and her situation.
~I didn’t really like Ravi, I suppose he had his part to play but not sure if he was really that needed as much as he featured.
~I thought the book was very original, but then I don’t think I’ve came across a book that has deals with teen pregnancy and decision to adoption in the modern times. I never go near the dystopia ones.
~while I really love the book...but I still think that the relationships develops oddly. They’re seem to jump to closeness.
The main theme of the book is family. How relationships can save you as indictate the by the title and how you can be changed by and without person. I thought Jill realisation that she never be the same person without her father was my favourite part. It didn’t make me think of my own since mine is so different.
~This book was rather tragic, but the ending was much happier. There the certainty that these character have been joined together and make their way together.
~The choice of Narration is really fits the book. I think it was important to have both point of view of the characters. I don’t think it would have been really possible to fully understand Jill and Mandy without it. Since both are so closed off and don’t communicate really with any of the other characters.
~Not initially liking Mandy that much, but she grew on me with the realisation that she had really been led astray by her mother and her situation.
~I didn’t really like Ravi, I suppose he had his part to play but not sure if he was really that needed as much as he featured.
~I thought the book was very original, but then I don’t think I’ve came across a book that has deals with teen pregnancy and decision to adoption in the modern times. I never go near the dystopia ones.
~while I really love the book...but I still think that the relationships develops oddly. They’re seem to jump to closeness.
The main theme of the book is family. How relationships can save you as indictate the by the title and how you can be changed by and without person. I thought Jill realisation that she never be the same person without her father was my favourite part. It didn’t make me think of my own since mine is so different.
~This book was rather tragic, but the ending was much happier. There the certainty that these character have been joined together and make their way together.