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Paul Stayt paulstayt — Translating...

Giulia Tomas _iulia_omas — ** spoiler alert ** There was a heck of a lot of promise to this book. I spent the first half of it reading eagerly, very engrossed in Rosemary's life. She has a bright and brilliant point of view, and I really enjoyed reading from her perspective. Her voice was loud and vibrant, entertaining and often times, funny. There were a few of her lines I positively loved -- "Love is a lot like food poisoning," for one. But when it got deeper into the book, I started to wonder when we would see this miraculous transformation that we were supposed to get into. She was supposed to journey towards transformation and self-discovery... and all she did was start starving herself and occasionally see this short-term counselor. The addition of the boyfriend and the new friend, Kay-Kay, was certainly a good step for her, but where was this self-discovery? There was one thing that kept me from really connecting to this book, and it was how overly dramatic the portrayal of her weight loss was. Rosemary was supposed to be, at her highest, 203 pounds. The way she's talked about -- her eating habits, the way she is mocked, the way she's portrayed as a slob at times -- seemed way out of line with that. She's meant to sound huge, but at 203 pounds, unless she's barely 5 feet tall, that just sounds like a stretch? This is not me saying that I think 203 pounds is a healthy weight for a teenager, for the record. What really killed me was how it didn't feel like there was much of a resolution between Aunt Mary and Rosemary. She spent the entire book terrorizing her emotionally, berating her for being fat, and even though there was that "breakthrough" with her mother, I'd have liked to see Rosemary's triumph over it -- especially when she claims she's the reason that Rosemary lost so much weight. Now, what killed this from getting four stars from me (because again, I absolutely loved her point of view, and I think this is absolutely one of the more realistic and honest portrayals of a young adult I've read), was the ending. Specifically what she says when her mother asks her what made her lose the weight. She did it to get people off her back. I understand that this is supposed to only be the start of Rosemary's transformation, but I felt nothing for that specific ending.

David Díaz _vidazlle — i am about halfway, may never finish. we'll see. Update: i have decided to never finish, i just can't get into it.

Yue Chester chesteryue — I usually like science fiction that won't admit it's science fiction, even though it kind of pisses me off (the not-admitting, not the genre), and this is one of those, I think. Loved it.