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Bezig met laden... Love & Lies: Marisol's Storydoor Ellen Wittlinger
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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. Very realistic, feels true. ( ) I thought Wittlinger's Parrotfish was brilliant. This, not so much. Admittedly, I did not read the first book, Hard Love, but this was a stand-alone story about Marisol, an 18-year-old who falls in love with her considerably older teacher. It's patently obvious that the teacher is Bad News from the beginning. The secondary characters are not particularly interesting, and the real love interest doesn't get enough airplay. Also, Marisol is supposed to be an amazing writer, and the pieces of her writing that the reader is subjected to do not bear out this assertion. A disappointment, I'm afraid. Didn't love this the way I wanted to, probably because Marisol doesn't interest me as a character the way Gio did. Overall, a good story of that first love, that first adult relationship, and Marisol's struggle to remain true to herself while desperately trying to hold onto to the woman she loves. I was glad to see this come to the conclusion it came to--it said a lot about the characters' growth as people, and it showed that Wittlinger, as always, has confidence in her characters to do the right thing, even if it may not be the easy thing. Still, there was something about this that held me back a little, and I find that with most of her books with female protagonists. Her male characters sound truer, more honest, to me than her female ones. The cover and the saying by Gloria Steinman were most compelling. I was hoping it would be a straight relationship, not that I ave anthing against gay relationships. I was really confused; I didn't really understand it. It didn't explain a lot about what the character is or like the relationships. I thought the main character was a girl, then a boy, then a girl. AHS/AC Reviewed by Jaglvr for TeensReadToo.com In HARD LOVE, the reader got to meet Gio. Gio fell in love with Marisol Guzman, to no avail. Not that Marisol didn't like Gio, maybe even love him. But not in that way. For Marisol likes girls. Now, Ellen Wittlinger gives the reader a chance to get inside Marisol's head. This is Marisol's story. Marisol has decided to defer Stanford for a year. She's got the idea that she's going to write a novel. And she can't do that if she's worrying about her schoolwork at the same time. So she moves out of her parents' house and into a grungy apartment with her best friend, Birdie. With some under-the-table financial assistance from her mother, Marisol works a waitress job at a small coffee shop while trying to write her novel. She signs up to take a Saturday morning writing class to aid her in the endeavor. There, she first encounters her old friend Gio. Things were left unsettled between them after a falling out in the spring when Gio revealed his true feelings for her. Hopefully, they can begin again as friends with a firm understanding between them this time around. Marisol has truly missed Gio, but she knows she never led him to believe anything else would happen between them. As they settle into their seats, in walks the most beautiful woman that Marisol has ever met, their teacher, Olivia Frost. From the first moment, Marisol is struck and becomes obsessed. Marisol begins to imagine being with Olivia, and before she knows it, Olivia is returning the attention. But life isn't perfect or easy for Marisol. Olivia is hiding something and none of Marisol's friends trust her. Added to that, Marisol has befriended Lee, a shy girl that has begun to hang out at the coffee shop after school. Lee has recently announced to her family and friends that she's gay, and things haven't been easy for her. Marisol tries to encourage Lee in her new world, without encouraging her affections. She can see the situation turning into a repeat of her troubles with Gio in the spring. As Ms. Wittlinger crafts her story, Marisol is forced to deal with her own issues and struggles to stay who she is as she struggles with her need to be loved. It's only after Marisol loses what she truly needed that she realizes what she has to do. LOVE & LIES: MARISOL'S STORY is a great continuation to HARD LOVE. Fans of the first one will definitely love this one just as much. And for those that have never read HARD LOVE, they will easily pick up the flow of the story and want to join the crazy bunch of people that are Marisol's friends. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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When Marisol, a self-confident eighteen-year-old lesbian, moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work and try to write a novel, she falls under the spell of her beautiful but deceitful writing teacher, while also befriending a shy, vulnerable girl from Indiana. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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