Sometimes you think you know exactly what you’re going to get, and you got the entire book planned out in your head. ‘Hello, I Love You’ was nothing like that. From the moment I got on the plane to Korea with the main character Grace, I was just as lost as her and had to find my way.
‘Hello, I Love You’ shows us how love can be tricky and difficult and most of all, that sometimes it is worth fighting for, even if you’re scared. (mere…)
Tag: grief
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‘Hello, I Love You’ by Katie M. Stout
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‘How to be brave’ by E. Katherine Kottaras
High School student Georgia is determined to go through a self-made bucket list to live life after her mothers dead. The blurb sounded really interesting, but ‘How to be brave’ and espcially Georgia’s bucket list disappointed me big time. Amanda from our editorial board asked me this very good question: “What items would you have liked instead on Georgia’s bucket list, in order to understand her better?” (mere…) -
‘Break my heart 1000 times’ by Daniel Waters
Did you like the movie ‘The sixth sense’ from 1999 because of the scary things that happened, when the world of the living and the world of the dead collided? And did you like Alice Sebold’s novel ‘The Lovely Bones’, because of the thrilling parts where you got to know the murderer, but still couldn’t prevent bad things to happen? Then there’s a really good chance that you’ll also like the story in ‘Break my heart 1000 times’ and the way it’s told. (Photo: Peter Henrichsen) (mere…)
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‘This house is haunted’ by John Boyne
An inexperienced twenty-one year old girls dream transforms into a nightmare. She’s all alone. But she doesn’t run away screaming. That’s old fashioned girl power! The setup in ‘This house is haunted’ reminds a lot of Henry James’ ‘The Turn of the screw’, but John Boyne proves with his strong characters that gothic fiction can be taken to another even more delightful level. (mere…)
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‘No and Me’ by Delphine de Vigan
An incredibly poignant and beautiful story about two lonely girls mutual friendship. Not since ‘Zoo Station, The Story of Christiane F.’ have I been so emotionally involved, and even though the story is incredible sad, it wasn’t devastating, but actually life-affirming in a very beautiful way. (mere…)
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‘Twenty Boy Summer’ by Sarah Ockler
In ‘Twenty Boy Summer’ Sarah Ockler creates magic through her beautiful writing. While reading, I became Anna and that really made me enjoy this book. Besides that, then this wasn’t just another predictable love story. I liked how I had no clue about what direction the story was going to take, and that made me eager to read the book. (mere…)
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‘Wintergirls’ by Laurie Halse Anderson
‘Wintergirls’ is not just a really good and realistic novel about a young girls complicated relationship to her parents and vice versa. It’s also a kind of a crime/mystery, because Lia in the secret wants to find out how Cassie died. This combination made it both a pageturner and unforgettable.
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‘The Shock of the Fall’ by Nathan Filer
I really enjoyed reading ‘The Shock of the Fall’. I had the sense of that I became friends with Matthew while reading the book, and he taught me great things about life. (mere…)