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mariachai 's review for:
On the Jellicoe Road
by Melina Marchetta
Let me tell you something about this book:
I dropped it. Twice. TWICE.
I had really high expectations because I had seen quotes of it before and I thought it was so beautiful, and yes, it was beautiful but also so so boring. There were parts were I didn´t understand what was going on.There were pages I had to read THREE TIMES so I could understand. The first time I dropped it I read about 70 pages and I thought it was so so not interesting. A couple months later I grabbed it again, I was like "cool, let's do this. I can do this. Maybe it gets exciting". Well, that didn't happen and i Dropped it 100 pages before its end.
Let me tell you something more, this was 5-6 months ago and I don't even remember the characters' name. No kidding. I guess this tells you something about how much I didn't like it. And i see the ratings and I'm thinking "what did I miss?" "I tried to read it twice and I couldn't go on WHAT THE HELL IS SO GOOD ABOUT IT?".
So yeah, that's basically my review, however, i can understand why people like it, because althought everything I've said, I think it was a nice story, I think it was written in a beautiful way, it just didn't work for me. I was always wondering when were the shocking things were gonna happen. The plots, the exciting things, and they didn't, so that's pretty much why I dropped it.
Who knows? Maybe some day I get to finish it.
I dropped it. Twice. TWICE.
I had really high expectations because I had seen quotes of it before and I thought it was so beautiful, and yes, it was beautiful but also so so boring. There were parts were I didn´t understand what was going on.There were pages I had to read THREE TIMES so I could understand. The first time I dropped it I read about 70 pages and I thought it was so so not interesting. A couple months later I grabbed it again, I was like "cool, let's do this. I can do this. Maybe it gets exciting". Well, that didn't happen and i Dropped it 100 pages before its end.
Let me tell you something more, this was 5-6 months ago and I don't even remember the characters' name. No kidding. I guess this tells you something about how much I didn't like it. And i see the ratings and I'm thinking "what did I miss?" "I tried to read it twice and I couldn't go on WHAT THE HELL IS SO GOOD ABOUT IT?".
So yeah, that's basically my review, however, i can understand why people like it, because althought everything I've said, I think it was a nice story, I think it was written in a beautiful way, it just didn't work for me. I was always wondering when were the shocking things were gonna happen. The plots, the exciting things, and they didn't, so that's pretty much why I dropped it.
Who knows? Maybe some day I get to finish it.