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Nick Brown onetruenick — Just a long advertisement for his software, filled with useless bromides and shallow tricks.

G M info3d8193c4 — If the show had not been made, if I had not read a ton of other vampire books, THE AWAKENING might have been OK. Since the show was made and since I have read a ton of YA PNR with vampires as the central figure… I am amazed that I finished it. First: This book pales in comparison to the show. So from here on out I am not even going to bother with a comparison. Second: I hate Elena! Flighty, believing herself entitled, and very insensitive to the needs and feelings of those around her (poor Matt!) I really did not like how she seemed to feel herself entitled (i.e. once she had set her sights on Steffan, nothing mattered: Not her boyfriend. Not her friends.) I suppose I should admire her go get him attitude. Sadly, I just could not! The only thing that I agreed with was her assessment of Katherine. Which leads me to the boys, Steffan and Damon. Nothing new to them. Hot, brooding… bla bla bla. I suppose I am being a tad harsh especially considering that these books were first published in 1991(?) So I suppose they’re trailblazers, the first of their kind at the time… I would not know. But I am stubborn because I’m reading the rest. I intend to answer in the affirmative (and with a straight face) that, yes, I did read the books she got me.

Traci Brennan tbrennan3b9f — A book that makes you come back for more!

Kira Mishura _ira_ishura — With just a couple (personal) exceptions, this book is a well-written sort of rewrite of Little Women. Except for a few chapters near the end of the books, the story is told from Mr. March's perspective, beginning behind the battle lines of the Civil War and ending where Little Women originally ended (I didn't know there was an alternative ending to Little Women), in the March home after Mr. March's return. The characters continued to surprise me as I kept reading the book. At first, Mr. March's intense idealism and refusal to see more than two sides to any issue was annoying, but his gradual inability to resolve the discrepancy between his own personal beliefs and what he saw happening in the war further unhinged him, especially as the weight of his conscience bore down on him while he tried to save his own life (and, therefore, unintentionally or otherwise cost the lives of others) and vacillated between wanting to live and wanting to die. To save the reader from such intensity for almost 300 pages, Brooks brings in Marmee's perspective for a few chapters. What I liked best is that her true intentions were revealed and contrasted sharply with those that Mr. March purported were her thoughts and beliefs, making their relationship more tenuous than that described in Little Women. It also makes Marmee much more complex, as a radical woman who desired freedom and power in her marriage, and in her life in general, and gave voice and reason for the passion she tried to express despite at times being stifled by Mr. March. (The shushing motion he frequently gave to try to subdue her infuriated me, especially as he explained why he did it in the chapters he told.) I generally dislike novels that have multiple perspectives (well, at seemingly random moments, at least), and at first I was jarred when I was taken out of Mr. March's perspective in part two. However, that separation was necessary, not only to get out of Mr. March's head for a bit and offer a kind of opposing perspective to his constantly moralistic one (the inner battle between Mr. March and his demons gets heavy, and we need to see how he misinterprets Marmee's reactions to his actions throughout the book), but also we needed someone telling the story while Mr. March was in and out of consciousness in the hospital. The best part of this diversion, however, is Marmee's confrontation with Hester Clement, the former slave with connections to Mr. March. Readers already know the secrets that Mr. March keeps from Marmee and also can see how she formed the misconceptions about the relationship he had with Hester, but their meeting truly is the best scene of the entire book. Hester's humanity and desire to live--and live as a well-respected citizen despite her past--is what holds this book together. There are a few things that bothered me about this book, although they're minor and probably just personal preferences. I didn't mind that Brooks used Alcott's father as her biggest inspiration for the character of Mr. March (indeed, her skills as a journalist are obvious considering the small, accurate details Brooks felt the need to include in the novel), but using real-life people to infuse the book with characters who, again, tie the reader to the Civil War seemed unnecessary to me; Emerson and Thoreau just get in the way of the narrative, and I didn't need quite as many references to Little Women that I got (although I realized just how much I've forgotten in about the twenty years it's been since I read it). Overall, this book is an excellent example of the how complicated the Civil War really was as well as an example of a book that can be based on another and be better than that original source of inspiration. The characters never take the easy way out, that through this combination of fiction and reality can humanity be shown in its purest light.