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A review by iaproton
Between the Lines by Samantha van Leer, Jodi Picoult
adventurous
dark
funny
sad
tense
slow-paced
2.75
Wasn't expecting some occult. 2nd narrator was unpleasant.Slow beginning almost DNF gets better with modern times girl rather than Prince & his father's death...
It can get quite dark with fairies that suck blood to extract secrets and mermaids with a corpse that drowns someone they try to force into marriage.
There are some weird tangents into dentistry and for whatever reason the author seems to want to emphasize some gross events like frog dissection,leeches...
The only reason to read on was to know what happened if he was able to go outside of the book and the dialogue between Delilah and Oliver in the book was quite good,mildly funny . The story does skip around in chapters alternating between two plot lines which end abruptly so it can get quite confusing as to what is happening.
It also had some weird things like the horse called Socks being afraid of being too fat and very self-conscious and depressed.
Although the misunderstandings at the beginning were cute and amusing because they lived in different times, it got tedious , them not understanding each other over and over, wasn't funny anymore.
The ending which was hard to guess didn't feel like it fit the style of the book because it had some sci-fi type of things in it. It did end quite abruptly but on purpose for book 2 which looks a lot funnier from the one-hour sample available on Google Books.
It can get quite dark with fairies that suck blood to extract secrets and mermaids with a corpse that drowns someone they try to force into marriage.
There are some weird tangents into dentistry and for whatever reason the author seems to want to emphasize some gross events like frog dissection,leeches...
The only reason to read on was to know what happened if he was able to go outside of the book and the dialogue between Delilah and Oliver in the book was quite good,mildly funny . The story does skip around in chapters alternating between two plot lines which end abruptly so it can get quite confusing as to what is happening.
It also had some weird things like the horse called Socks being afraid of being too fat and very self-conscious and depressed.
Although the misunderstandings at the beginning were cute and amusing because they lived in different times, it got tedious , them not understanding each other over and over, wasn't funny anymore.
The ending which was hard to guess didn't feel like it fit the style of the book because it had some sci-fi type of things in it. It did end quite abruptly but on purpose for book 2 which looks a lot funnier from the one-hour sample available on Google Books.
Content Warnings
Moderate: Mental illness, Abandonment, Animal death, Fire/Fire injury, Death of parent, and Injury/Injury detail
Minor: Blood, Cancer, Death, Pregnancy, War, and Kidnapping
revenge,battle,