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<span style="color: #444444;">I am one of those people who think that each book has its moment.</span><b style="color: #ff4000;"> And <i>Jellicoe Road</i> arrived at a moment when I needed it.</b> <span style="color: #444444;"><u>I needed this book and I'm not the same since I've finished it.</u> There are all kinds of books. There are books that make you laugh, mourn and sigh. There are books that make you feel happy, sad, angry or upset. There are other very special to make you think and reflect. And</span><span style="color: #ff4000;"> </span><span style="color: #444444;">finally, there are other</span><span style="color: #ff4000;"> </span><b style="color: #fe642e;">very very special books that stir your inside and change your life. </b><span style="color: #444444;"><i>Jellicoe Road</i> belongs to the latter group (speaking from my own experience and knowing myself).</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i>I have such a weird feeling. I do not know how I feel.</i> This was the first thing I wrote after reading <i>Jellicoe Road</i> on Goodreads. I had mixed feelings at that time (and even I still have them). <i>Jellicoe Road</i> is a special book. The story is special. Melina Marchetta's style is special. The characters are special. The message is special. <b><span style="color: #fe642e;">Everything is special. </span></b></span></div>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;">“It's funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that's why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It's not the pain they're getting over, it's the love.”</span></span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I can hardly write this review because I do not know how to make you get the message</span><b><span style="color: red;"> "read this book"</span></b><span style="color: #444444;"> because seriously <u>it worth it</u>. Maybe you do not like it as much as me. Maybe you do not get as much as me. Maybe you do not cry as much as I did. Maybe yes, maybe not. What I can assure you is that <b>this book will not leave you indifferent and you will be thinking about it days after finishing it. </b>It's that kind of book.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I'm not going to talk about the characters or the plot.</span> <b style="color: #f79f81;">The less you know about it, the more you will be amazed and marvel over. </b><span style="color: #444444;">To be honest, the beginning is very confusing and because of this confusion maybe you do not want to continue reading. <u>Please, read on. </u>It is a reading in which you must be very attentive to details</span><span style="color: #f79f81;">. </span><b style="color: #ff4000;">This book is made piece by piece to finally fit into a beautiful and perfect puzzle. </b><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;">Do not be fooled by his cheerful cover, its pages contain a darker story than it seems.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #fe642e;"><b>Melina Marchetta's style is not comparable to another one.</b> </span><span style="color: #444444;">Her style is beautiful, pure, poetic, flawless and she writes for searching<u> the deepest parts of each person to destroy them.</u> Without any doubts I will read more books by Melina Marchetta, I'm looking forward to read <i>Finnickin of the Rock </i>because of its excellent critics.</span></div>
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<b><span style="color: #ff4000;"><i>Jellicoe Road </i>does not belong to a specific genre, it has a special category inside of us. With this book I remember the phrase "two persons ever read the same book" because nobody is going to read the book in the same way I have done it and that makes this one very special book. Always. I would recomend it, maybe it surprises you as much as me.</span></b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">With an iced tea and Taylor Swift sounding I write this great review. </span><b><span style="color: red;">Advice: This is one of the best books I've read so far this year.</span></b><span style="color: #444444;"> <u>I began without any expectations</u> and I was a bit boring in the first few pages, but I finished this book leading me hands to my head and thinking, </span><i style="color: #444444;">"Oh my God, this can not be happening!"</i></div>
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<i style="color: #444444;">Poisson Princess</i><span style="color: #444444;"> has been <u>the biggest surprise this year</u> because I did not expect that I liked so much</span><span style="color: #444444;">.</span><b style="color: #ff4000;"> It has made me suffering, sighing, laughing, biting my nails and wanting to mourn.</b><span style="color: #444444;"> When I read the synopsis I thought </span><i style="color: #444444;">"Oh no, another post-apocalyptic book"</i><span style="color: #444444;">, but </span><i style="color: #444444;">oh, guys,</i><span style="color: #444444;"> this book is not another more. </span><i style="color: #444444;">Poisson Princess</i><span style="color: #444444;"> is different because of</span><b style="color: #ffbf00;"> the incredible atmosphere created by Kresley Cole.</b> <span style="color: #444444;">I recognize that the first 60 pages are the most boring because we entered into Evie's life, into her daily home and class, telling a story of a seemingly normal American girl.</span><span style="color: #ffbf00;"> </span><i style="color: #444444;">How foolish I was,</i><span style="color: #444444;"> actually, Evie is not normal, she undergoes a series of visions without knowing exactly what they mean. </span></div>
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<b style="color: #ffbf00;">The most interesting part begins when it takes place <i>The Flash </i>and the story turns 360 degrees. </b><span style="color: #444444;">The oceans, seas and lakes have evaporated and the scarcity of food begins to create clashes between the survivors themselves. Evie, survives with her mother and the story returns to take another twist when <b><span style="color: #ff4000;">Jack Devenaux </span></b>appears with his irresistible Cajun dialect (</span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">♥</span><span style="color: #444444;">) and his inseparable bottle of whisky. </span><u style="color: #444444;">The sexual tension between Jack and Evie has delighted me</u><span style="color: #444444;"> and I sighed and sighed because of them. I did not want to stop reading.</span><b><b style="color: #ffbf00;"> Jack Deveneaux is bad,</b> </b><span style="color: #444444;">under his attitude there is no a lovely and understanding guy, he's really bad and I love it</span><b style="color: #444444;"> </b><i style="color: #444444;">(Bye, bye clichès!).</i><br />
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<span style="color: #444444;">Oh, I almost forgot it! <u>The beginning can be a little confusing</u>, but I'm going to put you in situation. The prologue and the final chapters are narrated from the point of view of Arthur who deceives Evie to get fire and food if she tells him her story. However, Arthur is a <u>psychopath</u> who experiences with his victims in the basement of the same house. <i>What will happen about Evie? Arthur will get achieve your goal?</i> You'll have to read Poisson Princess to find out. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f04;"><b>Kresley Cole's style is impeccable</b>, </span><span style="color: #444444;">she shows maturity and she knows how to chain every word. Maybe there is a little negative detail, in my case, English is not my first language, and Kresley Cole loves use complex synonyms, but once I read many pages there is no problem.</span><span style="color: #b45f04;"> </span><span style="color: #ffbf00;"><b>Now, the final. The last pages were so good. So epic.</b> </span><span style="color: #444444;">I was <u>hyperventilating</u> and saying <i>"Oh my god, Oh my god, I can't believe it! This is so good!"</i> I can't wait to read the second book! Really, I need it RIGHT NOW.</span></div>
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Mel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08504399973827102988noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225427959227058023.post-41974841833719454802014-08-26T17:07:00.001+02:002014-09-01T15:26:25.544+02:00BOOK REVIEW: THE WINNER'S CURSE, MARIE RUTKOSKI.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;"><u>Occasionally we find little treasures that have long awaited the time on our shelves.</u> <i>The Winner's Curse</i> is one of those treasures and it wears nothing more and nothing less than six months waiting for his long-awaited moment on my shelves, </span><b style="color: #df013a;">and at what time has come!</b><span style="color: #444444;"> I read it in one breath:</span><b style="color: #df013a;"> two days.</b><span style="color: #444444;"> The clean and majestic style of Marie Rutkoski captivated me from the first word. </span><b style="color: #df013a;">I started it with no expectations and I ended up with a broken heart.</b></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“The beauty of the flute was in its simplicity, in its resemblance to the human voice. It always sounded clear. It sounded alone. The piano, on the other hand, was a network of parts—a ship, with its strings like rigging, its case a hull, its lifted lid a sail. Kestrel always thought that the piano didn't sound like a single instrument but a twinned one, with its low and high halves merging together or pulling apart.” </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #444444;"><i>The Winner's Curse</i> is narrated from the point of view of Kestrel and Arin. Kestrel reflecting the viewpoint of high society (Valorian) and Arin reflecting the point of view of being a slave (Herrani).<span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span>Maria Rutoski has created a medieval society where prevails <b><b style="color: #df013a;">the war and a false political stability.</b> </b>Nothing is what it seems on this book.<span style="font-family: inherit;"> <o:p></o:p></span>We can divide the book in two parts: the first part is rather slow (even I was captivated me from the first word) but it's where we begin to see how it is forged the relationship between Kestrel and Arin slowly through small details that <u>make us sigh and hug the book </u>dramatically. The second part, however, is a <u>hurricane of events</u> one after another: surprise attacks, persecutions, murders, explosions ... making us suffer to get to <b style="font-weight: bold;"><b style="color: #df013a;">an ending that destroys any reader who has a soul.</b></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“For once he didn't stop himself. The pressure of song was too strong, the need for distraction too great. Then he found that the music caged behind his closed teeth was the melody Kestrel had played for him months ago. He felt the sensation of it, low and alive on his mouth."</span></blockquote>
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<b style="color: #df013a;">The<b> political frames</b> </b><span style="color: #444444;">have a great relevance in the history, leaving the relationship of Kestrel and Arin in the background. Marie Rutkoski not afraid of getting rid of certain characters and the reader is suffering even for the same protagonists. The society created by the author is unstable to a fault and the reader will suffer. A lot. <u>It is like a bomb ready to explode.</u></span></div>
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<b style="color: #df013a;">Marie Rutkoski style </b><span style="color: #444444;">is <u>clean</u> and with entertaining dialogues and descriptions that we make us travel to a society that divides Herrani and Valorian and without let us know which side is good and the other bad. Marie Rutkoski <u>smart</u> and <u>tidy </u>with every word, <i>The Winner's Curse</i> is a gear's system in which we will see during the reading how the chapters fit together</span><b style="color: #df013a;"> resulting in <b><b style="color: #df013a;">one of the best books so far this year.</b></b></b></div>
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Mel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08504399973827102988noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225427959227058023.post-82909231358860478282014-08-21T13:39:00.001+02:002014-09-01T15:30:39.725+02:00BOOK REVIEW: ANNA AND THE FRENCH KISS, STEPHANIE PERKINS.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;">
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<span style="color: #b404ae;"><b>I love when I finish books with a wide smile on my face. A real wide smile.</b> </span><i style="color: #444444;">Anna and the French kiss</i><span style="color: #444444;"> made me finish it with one of the biggest smiles than a book made me do. </span><span style="color: #444444;"><i>Paris.</i> This book takes place <u>in Paris</u>, how I cannot love it? It is a love story but, I don't know how, the story touch the most deep zone of my heart. It is my dream about having a relationship: first, being friends and knowing each other and then... bang! you realize that you love the other person. The part in which they talk while they are walking through Paris is my favourite of the entire book. It is the part when the reader sees the<b style="color: #b404ae;"> 'chemistry'</b><span style="color: #b404ae;"> </span>there are between them. It is important to me, because in most of books there are instalove and I hate it. I like see the characters know each other, <u>building slowly the relationship.</u> In this book,<span style="color: #b404ae;"> </span><b style="color: #b404ae;">there is no instalove</b><span style="color: #b404ae;">, </span>THANKS STEPHANIE PERKINS.<span style="color: #b404ae;"> </span><b style="color: #b404ae;">Anna</b> is a real character, she doesn't know a word of French and she don't want to go to a boarding school in Paris because of that. Added to this, she is angry with her father and she hates him because he abandonded her mother some years ago. She feels completely alone without any friends but, the night before having classes she knows Mer and Étienne. Thanks to Mer she will be part of a little group of people: Mer, Josh, Ramshi and Étienne. They will be her friends during the whole story. </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The best thing of this book are the <b><span style="color: #b404ae;">characters</span></b>. Anna is strong and I would have felt in the same way than her if I would have been in her situation. At first, she is angry and ashamed because she doesn't know French, even she doesn't eat because she doesn' know how to say what she want. However, it is an English School (for American) in Paris so except French she will have all her classes in English. Yeah, I know. It is a little weird. With her new friends she will <u>spend a fantastic year with laughs, special nights, school projects and cinema, much cinema.</u> Anna loves cinema and she want to be a critic about cinema. There is a better place to be than Paris? </span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">Her relationship with Étienne it <u>was too beautiful.</u> However, there is drama. MUCH DRAMA. Sometimes I just wanted to shout at them "OH MY GOD, YOU LOVE EACH OTHER" or "REALLY? ANNA WAKE UP! HAVE YOU LISTENED WHAT ÉTIENNE HAS JUST SAID?" Really, I was exasperated. But at the same time, I loved it. It is a weird feeling. <b><span style="color: #b404ae;">Étienne... oh, Étienne </span></b></span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">♥</span><b style="color: #444444;"> </b><span style="color: #444444;">It is your fault that I want to have a boyfriend right now. It is your fault that I love this book so much. I was all the time "I love you, Étienne" or sighing dramatically and hugging the book with all my heart.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">The <b><span style="color: #b404ae;">style</span></b> of Stephanie Perkins is not difficult and it <u>is quite simple</u>, <b><span style="color: #b404ae;">direct and with intelligent and entertaining dialogues.</span></b> She has created a original and marvelous love story and she has reflected the feeling of being in love with someone. <b><span style="color: #b404ae;">She has built original, intelligent, strong and unforgettable characters.</span></b></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">I moan with pleasure. </span><span style="color: #444444;">"Did you just have a foodgasm?" he asks, wiping ricotta from his lips. </span><span style="color: #444444;"> "Where have you been all my life?" I ask the beautiful panini.</span></blockquote>
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<span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #b404ae;"><b>Read </b><i style="font-weight: bold;">Anna and the French Kiss</i><b> if you want to feel absorbed by the magic of the city of Paris. Read it if you want to laugh out loud at clever dialogues. Read it if you want to feel how it feels to love again.</b></span></span></div>
Mel.http://www.blogger.com/profile/08504399973827102988noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5225427959227058023.post-11072818586682558442014-08-19T00:16:00.000+02:002014-09-01T15:33:47.114+02:00BOOK REVIEW: SINCE YOU'VE BEEN GONE, MORGAN MATSON.<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="color: #444444;">I knew before starting reading it that I would love it. I loved<i> Amy & Roger's Epic Detour</i> and <i>Second Chance Summer</i> and I knew that I would love <i>Since You've Been Gone</i>. However, this time, it has been more personal, more special and it is definitely my favourite book from Morgan Matson. Absolutely. And I want to tell you <i><u>why</u></i> is so special to me. <b><span style="color: #04b431;">I have seen me reflected in Emily</span></b>, I have seen my <b><span style="color: #04b431;"><i>I</i></span></b> three years ago. On the first chapters I was already crying because of that. I could feel the loneliness from Emily. She was completely lost without Sloane and I could feel it on my skin. When you feel a story in this way it is impossible not to love it.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444;">“It just gets hard, always being someone's second choice” </span></blockquote>
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<span style="color: #444444;">It is not a book about love. The most important thing here is the friendship. </span><i style="color: #444444;">Since You've Been Gone</i><i style="color: #444444;"><span lang="EN-US"><span style="font-family: inherit;"><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">is a book <b><span style="color: #04b431;">about Emily</span></b>. It is a book <b><span style="color: #04b431;">about her development</span></b>, about the search of herself… you will grow up at the same time as Emily. You will find yourself between the letters of this book. However, h</span></span><span style="color: #444444; text-align: center;">ow is she going to achieve that? Through the <b><span style="color: #04b431;">Sloane's list</span></b>. After Sloane left her behind without any clue, she sent to Emily a letter in which there was only a list with thirteen challenges to complete (you should read it if you want to know them). In spite of everything, Emily will not be alone. </span><span style="color: #444444; text-align: center;">She will have <b><span style="color: #04b431;">Frank Porter</span></b>: he is the president of the class, shy, awkward and he will arrive in Emily's life without anyone can realize. </span><span style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #444444;">I LOVED how the relationship between Emily and Frank grew up slowly, very slowly. I was shighing during all the story through the looks between them or the positions of the hands (if you read it you know what I mean). Due to the beautifully style of Morgan Matson, we see how something is happening without it is actually happening. I loved the little details on the book such as the playlists Emily and Frank use when they are running (The Beatles</span><span style="color: red;"> </span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">♥</span><span style="color: #444444; text-align: center;">) </span></div>
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"What?" Frank asked, his eyes on mine.<br />
"Just..." I took a shaky breath. "Nobody's ever said something like that to me."<br />
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<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVmldI_H5yxqjjaqu-5GSB1QNWoHDHPisYf5BOOJGGeJJFJNijxHi5aEGK2IsuxHSc8CmZUeHE5Aqp9pgNLewoq7VQo3uAtOe4zFBrh8svJ_kthkshH3R0ti8l4pcM5bxOKDki9XmpsY8o/s1600/DSC04987.JPG" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhVmldI_H5yxqjjaqu-5GSB1QNWoHDHPisYf5BOOJGGeJJFJNijxHi5aEGK2IsuxHSc8CmZUeHE5Aqp9pgNLewoq7VQo3uAtOe4zFBrh8svJ_kthkshH3R0ti8l4pcM5bxOKDki9XmpsY8o/s1600/DSC04987.JPG" height="150" width="200" /></span></a><span style="background-color: white; color: #444444;">The best of Morgan's books are <b><span style="color: #04b431;">her characters</span></b>. Totally. They feel so real on her pages, she knows how to create characters in which the reader can see reflected on them and I don't have another choice than clap wildly to Morgan Matson. <span style="text-align: center;">Emily will take risks, she will confront her fears and she will learn the incredible person she is individually. She will see that she doesn't need anyone to be who she is. </span></span><br />
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So, Emily will find Sloane? Emily will complete all the challenges? You will discover the answers of these questions on <i>Since You've Been Gone</i><i>. </i>Besides, the story takes place on summer so it is perfect to read it right now! I need more from Morgan Matson. I loved all her stories and all her characters. <i>Since You've Been Gone</i></span><span style="background-color: white;"> <b><span style="color: #04b431;">brought me back to reading with excitement again!</span></b></span> </span><span style="background-color: white; color: red; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18.200000762939453px;">♥</span></div>
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<b><i><span style="color: #04b431;">Since You've Been Gone can seem a simple story but there are many little details and messages between its words. It is a book about the development as a person, about loving yourself without anyone needs to tell you. Do a favour to yourself and read it.</span></i></b></div>
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