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The Sudden Appearance of Hope
by Claire North
The Sudden Appearance of Hope was, sadly, disappointing.
The concept was extremely cool: Hope is, literally, forgotten. She began to fade from her friends and parents' memories when she was 16 and now her curse is to be forgotten by everybody who sees her. Hope uses this ability/curse to survive by becoming a thief, until one of her heists goes wrong.
I had a lot of faith in this idea. The first lines actually hooked me and made me extremely excited, but in the end what ruined the book for me were my expectations. Not because they were too high, but because I expected something completely different. I certainly didn't expect this book to be a thriller (kind of, but still) and I wasn't really excited about that. The book itself bored me sometimes and what was an awesome premise turned into a flat, average book. It's a good book, but it's not as good as it could have been.
I was confident that North would develop this idea in the best way possible, because I've read one of her books and I enjoyed it a lot, but this time around she caught me by surprise and in a negative way.
There are some good elements and some quotes are quite interesting, but it wasn't enough. I really appreciated Hope's character and I think that the character development was extremely well done, but in the end it wasn't enough for me. Overall this is a good book, but it wasn't what I expected and not in a positive way.
The concept was extremely cool: Hope is, literally, forgotten. She began to fade from her friends and parents' memories when she was 16 and now her curse is to be forgotten by everybody who sees her. Hope uses this ability/curse to survive by becoming a thief, until one of her heists goes wrong.
I had a lot of faith in this idea. The first lines actually hooked me and made me extremely excited, but in the end what ruined the book for me were my expectations. Not because they were too high, but because I expected something completely different. I certainly didn't expect this book to be a thriller (kind of, but still) and I wasn't really excited about that. The book itself bored me sometimes and what was an awesome premise turned into a flat, average book. It's a good book, but it's not as good as it could have been.
I was confident that North would develop this idea in the best way possible, because I've read one of her books and I enjoyed it a lot, but this time around she caught me by surprise and in a negative way.
There are some good elements and some quotes are quite interesting, but it wasn't enough. I really appreciated Hope's character and I think that the character development was extremely well done, but in the end it wasn't enough for me. Overall this is a good book, but it wasn't what I expected and not in a positive way.