This is a place for books that I didn't fully review.
Maybe I listed my likes and dislikes, had a little short paragraph, or a few sentences to convey my feelings on the book, but whatever the "review" is, all of them are short and simple. (hence the clever name)
I'm dreaming of the boy in the tree. I tell him stories. About the
Jellicoe School and the Townies and the Cadets from a school in Sydney. I tell
him about the war between us for territory. And I tell him about Hannah, who
lives in the unfinished house by the river. Hannah, who is too young to be
hiding away from the world. Hannah, who found me on the Jellicoe Road six years
ago. Taylor is leader of the
boarders at the Jellicoe School. She has to keep the upper hand in the
territory wars and deal with Jonah Griggs - the enigmatic leader of the cadets,
and someone she thought she would never see again.
And now Hannah, the person
Taylor had come to rely on, has disappeared. Taylor's only clue is a manuscript
about five kids who lived in Jellicoe eighteen years ago. She needs to find out
more, but this means confronting her own story, making sense of her strange,
recurring dream, and finding her mother - who abandoned her on the Jellicoe
Road.
The moving, joyous and
brilliantly compelling new novel from the best-selling, multi-award-winning
author of Looking for Alibrandi and Saving Francesca.
Goodreads / Amazon / Barnes & Noble
Review
It took me awhile to get into this book.
In the beginning the book is very confusing and hard to piece together.
Things do eventually come together and I was treated with an amazing book!
Although, I MUST warn you!
This book made me very emotional!
Be prepared to cry!
Meaning: A new favorite!
There are two new boys on
campus, and their sexy and scintillating looks have drawn all the girls'
attention. However, Kort and Seth have a secret...
Faith is a shy girl who's
withdrawn from the happy-go-lucky social settings of typical college
life--still grieving the recent loss of her somewhat crazy father--when she's
pulled from her mournful daze by the attention she keeps getting from the two
hotties on campus.
A strange encounter with
Kort and Seth reveals their secret..., an otherworldly truth beyond Faith's
wildest dreams, and she's left with startling questions about the death of her
father, her family's bloodline, and a destiny she never imagined possible.
Goodreads
Review
It took me awhile to get into this book. The pacing in the beginning is very slow, you don't really get to the main point of the story until about halfway through. When the two hot guys showed up, I honestly kept putting the book down. What irked me about them was that every time they showed up there would be all these words to describe how hot they were, because you obviously need to be reminded more than once. This did eventually stop, thankfully, around the time that the book picked up the pace.
At this point I was getting much more interested in the book. Sure, some things seemed a little too religious to me, but I still found it interesting, even though I'm not extremely religious.
This book did disappoint me, but I did eventually get some of what I was looking for.
