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Looking for Alaska by John Green
1.0
Didn’t share anything emotionally with the characters. In fact I found them annoying and they act like a lot of people around me which may be the reason. Just if you like reading about fake people who have problems ,and try to solve it the unhealthy way ,and then they get messed up and they don’t think of the full consequences that their actions will cause. Well then this is the perfect book for you.
This World We Live In by Susan Beth Pfeffer
3.0
Honestly this book was okay. The character and the plot was a classic YA novel (love, romance, desire etc etc). The thing I did like about it was how the book was effecting my life. I saw I became more nice and forgiving. Like somehow this book did a little switch in my brain that said “hey you can let that go. How about you help out that person blah blah.” This book made me get into the mindset of just love the people around you while you can before they’re gone.
The Shade of the Moon by Susan Beth Pfeffer
1.0
I cannot even tell you how many things were ethically wrong with this book. First of all you think Johnny boy is all good and such. Just a nice 15 year old who’s struggling with his family and likes baseball. SIKE! Turns out he’s a prejudice jerk who’s also a misogynistic prick who raped a girl he claimed he “loved”. Oh yea and then he leads her to die and then he takes her pass to live in a safe town. He then claims her “ghost” is haunting him. WELL NO DUH SHERLOCK!!!! The author then makes it seem he “didn’t mean to” rape her. Basically she said “boys will be boys”. Also Jonny said that if Julie did tell what he did that his mom would take “her side”. THERE ARE NO SIDES. YOU DID SOMETHING WRONG JOHNNY YOU CANNOT SAY THAT IN SOME UNIVERSE ITS OKAY. And it sucks Julie didn’t tell Alex, (because she died before she could tell him) because I would love to see wimpy Alex beat the everlovin crap out of Johnny. And then the rest of the family takes turn beating him up. Oh yea and then this new girl Sara shows up and Johnny tells her he raped a girl and Sara still likes him. Oh yea and also he has a complete pity party for himself through out the whole book. So yea I hate this book.
Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell
3.0
This book was okay I guess, but what I loved about it was the code in the book. You see this book and see these two kids in love, but hey they’re only kids. It was never gonna work out anyways. When I read the book for the second time I looked more deeply into it and I found the true meaning.
This book is just a recreation of Romeo and Juliet and let me tell you why.
1. The title. They could have named this title anything. Could have named it forbidden love, weird love, but the author didn’t. It’s because it’s just like the title Romeo and Juliet. It has their name in the title.
2. Forbidden love. Eleanor’s jerk of a step-dad didn’t want her to date. Park’s mom didn’t like that park was dating this weird girl. Also Parks friend made fun of Eleanor.
3. They committed love suicide. They didn’t really commit suicide, but they committed love suicide, because they went off and dated other people. Also when Eleanor goes to a new school she doesn’t even say she dated Park when she was asked if she’d ever had a boyfriend. She doesn’t answer his letters. It’s almost like he’s dead to her. Also with Park he gets a new girlfriend and goes to prom with her. Also although he does write to her he’s perfectly capable of going to her uncles house to see her but he doesn’t. Like she’s dead to him.
4. The letter. Eleanor sent him one letter that we don’t know what it says. I believe I do know what it says. She talked about X-men’s new comic and how it says nothing ever ends. That would be a perfect secret message only Park and Eleanor would know. So I basically believe that the letter says nothing ever ends. Look at Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. It’s still popular and it’s been like more than 100 years. His old play is still being played. Almost like it never ends.
So yea that’s my interpretation.
This book is just a recreation of Romeo and Juliet and let me tell you why.
1. The title. They could have named this title anything. Could have named it forbidden love, weird love, but the author didn’t. It’s because it’s just like the title Romeo and Juliet. It has their name in the title.
2. Forbidden love. Eleanor’s jerk of a step-dad didn’t want her to date. Park’s mom didn’t like that park was dating this weird girl. Also Parks friend made fun of Eleanor.
3. They committed love suicide. They didn’t really commit suicide, but they committed love suicide, because they went off and dated other people. Also when Eleanor goes to a new school she doesn’t even say she dated Park when she was asked if she’d ever had a boyfriend. She doesn’t answer his letters. It’s almost like he’s dead to her. Also with Park he gets a new girlfriend and goes to prom with her. Also although he does write to her he’s perfectly capable of going to her uncles house to see her but he doesn’t. Like she’s dead to him.
4. The letter. Eleanor sent him one letter that we don’t know what it says. I believe I do know what it says. She talked about X-men’s new comic and how it says nothing ever ends. That would be a perfect secret message only Park and Eleanor would know. So I basically believe that the letter says nothing ever ends. Look at Shakespeare’s play Romeo and Juliet. It’s still popular and it’s been like more than 100 years. His old play is still being played. Almost like it never ends.
So yea that’s my interpretation.