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David Castillo _ — Jellicoe Road was a young adult novel that managed to offer depth and entertainment. It was a very layered book, with a story within a story and lots of intersecting storylines. Marchetta pulled off this complex novel with ease. I loved it and I think anyone would. Jellicoe Road is about Taylor Markham, a girl who's had trouble with commitment ever since her mother abandoned her when she was eleven years old. She was rescued by a a woman named Hannah who lives at the edge of the boarding school on the Jellicoe Road. Taylor is now a senior living at the boarding school with Hannah her closest thing to family. When Hannah leaves without warning one day it only deepens Taylor's conviction that she can't let people close. Taylor is starting to be haunted by her past and memories of her long gone mother and a father she never knew are resurfacing. She begins reading a manuscript Hannah left behind that is about five children who lived on the Jellicoe Road and may have some bearing on her life. And the boy she ran away with when she was twelve years old is back in town, a Cadet in military school and fighting with her in a territory war. As the suspense builds the mystery deepens and I was eager to discover all the secrets. Just watching all the plotlines come together was fascinating. Not only was the story excellent, the characters were so well developed they seemed to jump off the page. Taylor was a complex, very realistic protaganist and all the secondary characters were interesting too. I highly recommend Jellicoe Road. It's made me want to read more by Melina Marchetta.

Renad Aziz renad77663ffe — Just read it. We adopted a Jack Russell (Lucy) today!!! I read the whole thing last night.

J Felipe _elipecuellar1 — What do you get when you combine George Bailey, Ebenezer Scrooge, and Don Draper? You get Lou Suffern. Lou's the main character in this Christmas-novel-with-a-timeless-message by Irish author Cecelia Ahern, whose books I tend to enjoy. (See my review of There's No Place Like Here.) I'm usually not a Christmas book reader, but I was in the mood for such a novel this past week. When I saw this on display at the library, I grabbed it because Ahern's novels tend to be light reads (guilty pleasures, a little piece of literary chocolate at midnight) and I hadn't realized she'd written a Christmas story. If you've never read Cecelia Ahern, her stories are almost in a genre all to themselves; they're light reads, but with an element of the modern day and the fairy tale. Picture BlackBerries next to a magic wand. If you like Sarah Addison Allen, chances are you'll like Cecelia Ahern. From Publishers Weekly: Lou Suffern is a busy man, and his family’s growing weary of constantly taking the backseat to his career. On a whim, he offers Gabe, a homeless man he meets outside his office, a low-level job, and the uncharacteristically kind gesture plays out in a very unexpected way when Lou learns that Gabe has the power to be in two places at once. As the holidays draw nearer, Gabe tries to make Lou realize the importance of his family, but slow-to-change Lou might not come around to Gabe’s way of thinking until it’s too late. It's a somewhat predictable premise, and while there are some unexpected moments in The Gift, this one didn't seem as magical to me as Cecelia Ahern's other novels. I didn't fully connect with Lou nor have much sympathy for him, and there were several elements of the plot that didn't quite seem to fit. There's a secondary storyline happening at the same time (a policeman is telling Lou's story to a juvenile delinquent in an attempt to get him to see the error of his ways). I kept thinking there was some way they were all connected ... but other than a shared epiphany of "we all have the same amount of time on this Earth and none of us ever know when that time will end," there really isn't a connection between these characters, which makes for a bit of a disjointed story. As I said, I went into this one looking for a bit of a lighter read than usual and that's what The Gift is. Sometimes that's OK. Although this one wasn't quite for me, I still think Cecelia Ahern has a literary gift.