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A review by sophie19611
Between the Lines by Jodi Picoult, Samantha van Leer
4.0
I really liked this book (just to verify I gave it 3.5 stars) and I enjoy the concept that characters in books have a life when they're not being read. One line that really captured my interest and made my heart flutter was this:
"Oliver's eyes lit upon her silver hair, her violet eyes, her heart-shaped face. And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath was timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This was why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them."
Now even though that line was not for the couple I wished it was for, it was still a perfect line and I had to read it aloud to my Mom as soon as I saw it.
Between the Lines is a book about a girl named Delilah who has a strange addiction to a 60 page-long fairy tale for children. She found it upside down, backwards, and in the wrong section in her library, but when she went to put it back it shocked her. She checks it out every single week and she can't stop reading it. She wishes Oliver were real, he's a prince and he is perfect.
On the other hand there is Oliver. He is a prince and he solves his problems not by violence but by cleverness. There is no "Once Upon a Time" it's more like ten times or a hundred. Every time the reader opens the book he finds himself in the right scene with the right clothes. It's all same old, same old, till now. He is real even though he is in a book and Delilah is the first person to notice that he is.
This book is really cute and it has some nice comedy and action as well. It's an easy read and I am planning on reading [b:Off the Page|23278280|Off the Page|Jodi Picoult|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1423002176s/23278280.jpg|42817037] soon.
"Oliver's eyes lit upon her silver hair, her violet eyes, her heart-shaped face. And just like that, something inside shifted very subtly, so that all the empty spaces in him suddenly disappeared, so that his breath was timed to hers, so that his blood sang. This was why there was music, he realized. There were some feelings that just didn't have words big enough to describe them."
Now even though that line was not for the couple I wished it was for, it was still a perfect line and I had to read it aloud to my Mom as soon as I saw it.
Between the Lines is a book about a girl named Delilah who has a strange addiction to a 60 page-long fairy tale for children. She found it upside down, backwards, and in the wrong section in her library, but when she went to put it back it shocked her. She checks it out every single week and she can't stop reading it. She wishes Oliver were real, he's a prince and he is perfect.
On the other hand there is Oliver. He is a prince and he solves his problems not by violence but by cleverness. There is no "Once Upon a Time" it's more like ten times or a hundred. Every time the reader opens the book he finds himself in the right scene with the right clothes. It's all same old, same old, till now. He is real even though he is in a book and Delilah is the first person to notice that he is.
This book is really cute and it has some nice comedy and action as well. It's an easy read and I am planning on reading [b:Off the Page|23278280|Off the Page|Jodi Picoult|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1423002176s/23278280.jpg|42817037] soon.