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For so many young adult protagonists, their main desire is to find home, and in doing so, find themselves. Kenny is a young woman unmoored from the world and her own body. She lives in a world where small crises can (and do) turn big at any time, but she still discovers a path home. Reynolds use of voice, imagery, and figurative language are amazing. I love The Hunger Games, but there is also a huge place in my heart for Reynolds’s Kenny.
Retellings of fairy tales can too often seem like a bad reboot of a classic TV show. But in Ash, Lo makes the story her own. At its heart, Cinderella is the story of a girl controlled and overpowered by a family and culture who doesn't care what she wants. Ash, too, is at the mercy of others, but Lo's heroine finds the way through not just to get what she wants and needs, but to figure out just what it is that she wants and needs.
Wonderful characters, precise detail, intricate but realistic plot in a novel that informs us about a war most have forgotten. Didn't want it to end, and it has never fully left my head since I read it.
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The Sweet in Between (Large Print) (Readers Circle) by Sheri Reynolds
erika770, January 2, 2012
For so many young adult protagonists, their main desire is to find home, and in doing so, find themselves. Kenny is a young woman unmoored from the world and her own body. She lives in a world where small crises can (and do) turn big at any time, but she still discovers a path home. Reynolds use of voice, imagery, and figurative language are amazing. I love The Hunger Games, but there is also a huge place in my heart for Reynolds’s Kenny.Ash by Malinda Lo
erika770, September 5, 2011
Retellings of fairy tales can too often seem like a bad reboot of a classic TV show. But in Ash, Lo makes the story her own. At its heart, Cinderella is the story of a girl controlled and overpowered by a family and culture who doesn't care what she wants. Ash, too, is at the mercy of others, but Lo's heroine finds the way through not just to get what she wants and needs, but to figure out just what it is that she wants and needs.Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
erika770, January 1, 2011
Wonderful characters, precise detail, intricate but realistic plot in a novel that informs us about a war most have forgotten. Didn't want it to end, and it has never fully left my head since I read it.