sonia_reppe's reviews
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Teen girls would like this for the witty dialogue, romance, and moral issue. This story took a while to get to the meat of the plot. I didn't find anything special about the main character, Samantha, but there were a lot of interesting supporting characters, such as Samantha's mom, Clay, Jase, Tim, and the Garret family.

This made me laugh and cry. Amber is a natural leader, a cheerful person who knows how to lift people up. At night she cries for herself and for her mom, who seems lost. Her mom's way of coping with their situation is by taking up with men and drinking.

I loved Amber's spunky optimism. Most of the girls in my lit class did too. To the few who didn't like Amber's voice, I would remind that Amber is from a low-income, rough class of people. The point is her strong spirit. I think her character is believable. There are extraordinary people like this.

When tragedy struck, I cried, and I cried at the ending. This was a great book. I think boys and girls would like it.

Awesome Dystopian story. If you haven't heard about this by now (movie out March 2012) you must be living in a cave in an isolated area. Yes, the premis is scary, but the spirit of this book is adventurous. The controlling government, in order to keep the people in check and prove their power, force two teens chosen at random to fight in a game to the death. Yes, a scary concept, but believable. As far as the gore, it's not half as bad as a Stephen King book. The protagonist is a cool, arrow-slinging girl named Katniss. I like her (and I like her name), she volunteers for the games to go in place of her little sister, who was chosen. Verdict: Highly recommended

I'm not the intended audience for this book, I read it for YA lit. The other girls (women, I should say) in my class didn't care for it either. There's no emotional connection for the reader. It's a light, humorous story about imperfect gods and a human girl who is seduced by the god named Bob. The tone was humorous but it didn't make me laugh. It wasn't bad, though. My professor said a lot of guy readers would like this because they often don't want an emotional connection to a book.

10/30/12 This is now an awesome series on PBS, which my mother and I are watching together.

This book is very memorable and heartbreaking--a well-written memoir that brings to life the East End of London in the 1950's. I never gave this book to my mom after I read it because of the tough, haunting parts about children dying, mothers dying...I didn't think my mom could handle it. I gave the book away--I think to my church's book sale/bazzarr.

There are humorous parts, like two nuns who hate each other; but so sad at parts! This is a wonderful, realistic, touching true story of a young nurse working in a rough part of Londontown. The PBS series is making me cry all over again; and the main actress is beautiful by the way.