Kristina Dunker
Auteur van Summer Storm
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Tagged
Algemene kennis
- Geboortedatum
- 1973-06-15
- Geslacht
- female
- Nationaliteit
- Germany
- Geboorteplaats
- Dortmund, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Deutschland
- Beroepen
- journalist
children's book author
young adult writer
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Statistieken
- Werken
- 29
- Leden
- 109
- Populariteit
- #178,011
- Waardering
- 3.0
- Besprekingen
- 3
- ISBNs
- 51
- Talen
- 2
Overall, I enjoyed Summer Storm and if I owned a bookstore I'd stock it. I sometimes have a hard time getting into young adult novels because they can be so 'anxsty,' particularly around issues of sexuality and gender roles. But that's the nature of being a teen. It took me about 20 pages to relax into this book, but after that I was sucked in. If there's a teen in your life who wants a "realistic" novel, this one might appeal to her or him. At only 139 pages long, there's not a lot of character development, but the shortness might be appealing to a teen who wants to read something, but doesn't want to commit to a huge tome. There's also no gratuitous sex or violence, although one girl does tell her friend about kind of almost doing it one time with a boy she loves.
The translation seemed pretty smooth. There was one odd moment when hair gel is referred to as "setting lotion," and I don't think most American teens use the word disco anymore, but other than that the writing moved along without any awkwardness.
My blog entry on the book: http://wildmoobooks.blogspot.com/2011/09/summer-storm-by-kristina-dunker.html… (meer)