release date: june 27th, 2011
mia's heart made a sound that no one heard except for mia
late one night when she woke from dreams into darkness.
ethan was asleep beside her, and em was a forest away.
outside it was night and dark and alaska.the sky was upside down.
late one night when she woke from dreams into darkness.
ethan was asleep beside her, and em was a forest away.
outside it was night and dark and alaska.the sky was upside down.
When Mia follows her sister halfway across the world to Alaska, she discovers that love can be found in the most unexpected and beautiful of places. But can Mia find the courage to follow her heart in Alaska? And what if the one you love is not all that you wish them to be?
i thought i would like this book (no CAPS people. it is the uncommon nonsense dreamland. you know i only use CAPS for SERIOUSLY SERIOUS things).
i said airy fairy things about how i would like his book (the writing was lyrical, which does make me wax poetic... like a lot).
i did not like this book... which feels like a bit of a cop-out sentence. unless the book is really mediocre and generic, i try not to reduce books to 'i do not like,' if i can help it.
this book isn't mediocre. or generic. it's off-beat weird and breathy and soft white words...
...and i didn't want it. i didn't want the character or the book or the story. it pressed against me in this really uncomfortable way. it was like mia was trying desperately to suffocate me... i just didn't want her character with me.
in the beginning i put down the book every other page and walked away for hours. by the middle i decided it was a band-aid and i needed to start ripping faster. by the end i was almost tripping over words in my haste to just finish.
it's a bit of a conundrum because there are some awesomely great and smart book people (tye and nomes i'm looking at you two) who absolutely loved it... and i kind of feeling like i walked in to a punchline after missing the joke: i just didn't get it. i know intellectually that it's good... i just... can't care for the book in any real way.
sorry guys.
6 comments:
Great honest review. I have felt that way about quiet a few books before, you know that they are good but yet they just don't do anything for you.
thanks nic. i was totally frustrated with myself but you've hit it on the head: some books you just don't get.
Thanks for your honesty. There really is no need to say sorry - it's your opinion after all. I just finished reading it and I really liked it.
But I totally understand why you might not have liked it. I've disliked and even not finished books that others have raved on about (Glimmerglass and Wintergirls for example. I finished both, just to see if it would get better). So yeah.
No book will satisfy everyone.
it totally just happens right! you're like 'okay, everyone, i have no idea what you're talking about.'
objectively i understood this wasn't a bad book... i just didn't want this book for myself.
ahh, poor nic ;(
i was like this about DIVERGENT of all books. everyone has loved it but me and i am surprised i even managed to finish it.
i am not sure if it isn't the book a little some times though :)
i love you nicole...
your blog just rocks so hard.
and you always pimp me out, haha
x Nomes
it's because you're my BOOK GURU!!! i have claimed such on a darkened lygon street corner! for all the world to hear!!!
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