Reviews written by Christina
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March 17, 2015
Overall rating
4.3
Plot
3.0
Characters
5.0
Writing Style
5.0
Young Adult Fiction
Exhilarating and Vivid Read (Plus Diversity!)
Pretty much everything about this book is revolutionary on a lot of different levels. There are so many vivid, subversive, shivery things about this book hidden just under the surface. I’ll be outlining these things below so that any potential readers will be prepared for them, but...
March 17, 2015
Overall rating
3.7
Plot
4.0
Characters
2.0
Writing Style
5.0
Young Adult Fiction
Feelings Are Mixed But Powerful
Love Letters to the Dead is written exactly the way it sounds – as a series of letters. I’ve had a disconnect from epistolary novels since I was younger, mainly because so many of them are plagued by a voice that strikes me as very juvenile. While it’s still a...
March 17, 2015
Overall rating
4.0
Plot
4.0
Characters
4.0
Writing Style
4.0
Young Adult Fiction
Fabulous for Summer
You know those times when you know intellectually that a book shouldn’t appeal to you that much, but there’s something you really enjoy about it anyway? You guessed it: this is one of those times. Scratch that, actually – there were some very specific parts about Behind...
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