henrietta_h 's review for:

Vieți paralele by Ellen Meister

4.0

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I enjoyed it. In a world full of romantics, fantasies and young adults this book felt like the crushing and cruel reality (not counting the existence of a supernatural portal that can take our protagonist from one life to other). The fact that it touches such a real problem in the life of a mother or a mother-to-be it was really shoking and captivating. I'm almost twenty years old now with a solid relationship and if everything goes right in a few years I would like to have a child and honestly, my biggest fear is his or hers health. I know this world, it's so discriminating and narrow-minded that if you're different you have to fight a lot harder than you normally would. It is not a bad thing but I think everyone wants their children to be healthy and happy. So when Quinn started to have problems, the book became so much more interesting. If it wouldn't have been the portal in her life, even like that it would've been a really good book. I liked how the reader got a lot of information about the particular illness Quinn's baby had, and the risks that came with it. Because it can happen to anyone of us and it's good to know about such things. And this book did a great job in bringing awaraness to this.

So, in fact the book was good, but there was just something missing... maybe it was the fact that Quinn gave up her life easily (that's how it seemed) even though she seemed content with it, or it was in the story-telling, I don't really know but it didn't feel like a 5 star book. But I would totally recommend it.