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Bezig met laden... A Fierce and Subtle Poisondoor Samantha Mabry
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. fiction (set in modern Puerto Rico). A magical story that is alright once it gets going, but I think it would've been better with some editing--like a fairytale that improves with each practiced retelling. I'm not sure I'd have classed this as "teen fic" but that is what the library's spine label says--the main characters are teens, and some of the chapters are quick and suspenseful (with cliff-hanger endings) but other chapters drag when Lucas goes on his little detours (now I'm going to talk to my friends for a while, now I'm going to talk to my dad, now I'm going to go on a date with some random girl I'll never see again, now I'm going to go navel gaze even though my brain is largely empty of thoughts, now I'm going to absorb some of the local flavors of the island I live on) that might serve a purpose if Lucas actually progressed as a character (he doesn't really). Magical realism is not my genre. Mabry's prose is mostly lovely, and I felt her sultry, hurricane-torn Puerto Rico with all my senses. I think this is probably a Good Book. But I read with Middle School Brain most of the time, and my students mostly don't appreciate magical realism, either -- this is going to be too literary for almost any of them. The murder mystery doesn't pick up steam until way too far into the book, the magic is too subtle and unsubstantiated... there are probably older readers for this, so I think I will send it on to the high school. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Fantasy.
Romance.
Thriller.
Young Adult Fiction.
HTML:Legends collide with reality when a boy is swept into the magical, dangerous world of a girl filled with poison. Everyone knows the legends about the cursed girl—Isabel, the one the seńoras whisper about. They say she has green skin and grass for hair, and she feeds on the poisonous plants that fill her family’s lush Caribbean island garden. Some say she can grant wishes; some say her touch can kill. Seventeen-year-old Lucas spends summers with his hotel-developer father in Puerto Rico, and he’s grown up hearing the stories. When letters from the cursed girl mysteriously appear in his room the same day his girlfriend disappears, Lucas turns to Isabel for answers—and finds himself lured into her strange and enchanted world. But the more entangled Lucas becomes with Isabel, the less certain he is of escaping with his own life. “A breathtaking story in which myths come to frightening life and buried wishes might actually come true.” —Nova Ren Suma, author of The Walls Around Us and Imaginary Girls “Samantha Mabry’s magical debut is both a chilling mystery and a heartbreaking meditation on love, longing, and sacrifice . . . A Fierce and Subtle Poison will get into your blood.” —Laura Ruby, author of Bone Gap “With its sparklingly sinister blend of natural history and magic, of themes that seem both modern and timeless, A Fierce and Subtle Poison gets under the skin.”—Chicago Tribune . Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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But I really liked the story overall and her writing style. Even if the main character was an ass. ( )