Review:I have read some of the YA books this is one of the best I have ever read. The characters are great finished in 2 nights. The writing is very good i can't think of a bad thing to say about any of the book it is just a very good read. Read more

Review:Starting off, I really liked this book. I married into a Korean family and could relate to much of the writing. I couldn't put it down for 3/4 of the book. I read word after word of all of the many characters introduced. I was so anxious to finish and find out the futures of each character. Unfortunately, I got to the last 1/4 of the book and found myself skipping ahead, past the many paragraphs of internal dialogue of feelings and background. I knew the end was coming and wanted more action. Th... Read more

Review:This book is maddening. Emily Fridlund is a capable writer. But she spends too much effort on the details: the words, the phrases, the sentence. Pretty prose indeed. But what is this book about? I really couldn't say for certain even after slogging through the whole thing. Slogging, because the author does very little to push the plot. She forces the reader to concentrate on the small picture and partially formed characters.

The book is obviously a coming-of-age story. But too many side p... Read more

Review:I wish I could get back the time I wasted reading this book but I kept going on and on hoping that it would turn into something interesting. Unfortunately he didn’t. I’m sorry but I did not find this book at all interesting or anything worth holding my curiosity. I thought it would be more about refugees and how they fared in foreign countries etc. but just didn’t seem to do that. Read more

Review:The book is divided into sections of different character’s narration, but instead of echoing each other and filling narrative gaps, it did the opposite. I enjoyed reading the first part of the story but couldn’t quite follow the Aneeka stories, the twin brother plot as well as the love story. The author based the story on Antigone but seemed to me too stretched out for that purpose. Also I don’t know how to take the ending. Overall I am quite disappointed. The book seemed to me more like an ove... Read more

Review:I don't understand some of Hamid's writing choices. It's a pretty straightforward narrative but then there are these magical doorways, which might be good if it was a magical book with other magical things. But it's jarring having these weird doorways coming out of nowhere. Also the author seems to sometimes go off in weird directions without any explanations (like the doors but without the magic), leaving some of the narrative a bit headscratching. I'm 3/4 of the way through and having a hard t... Read more

Review:"I don't like it when the summer goes and the autumn comes, she said.
Daniel took her by the shoulders and turned her round. He didn't say anything. But all across the landscape down behind them it was still sunlit blue and green.
She looked up at him showing her how the summer was still there.
Nobody spoke like Daniel.
Nobody didn't speak like Daniel."

"It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times." And with that nod to Dickens setting the scene, we enter the British ... Read more

Review:I knew from the first sentence that this book was going to make me feel. What I didn't know, but I knew it would be deep. I was right. This is a book for those who demand excellent writing and are not afraid to face the ups and downs of life. Read more

Review:I found this book both entertaining and thought-provoking and would highly recommend it to anyone craving a page turner that doubles as an excellent conversation starter (...have you read....?)

At some points overly simplistic and uneven, “The Power” still provides readers with an interesting take on transformative power. Read more

Review:I pride myself on completing books. Once I start a novel I complete it, even if I am not a fan. This is the first book I’m putting down. I read the rave reviews, saw it’s a winner of the Pulitzer Prize and was getting ready to love it. But it’s slow and painful. There is no comedy. It’s a novel of a broken man. I’m on page 65 and cannot bring myself to continue. It’s just one long sob story of numerous failed relationships. Too many descriptions and metaphors without enough substance. Maybe ther... Read more