Andi Suryadi từ Villa del Marchese PG, Italy

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12/22/2024

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2018-04-19 01:30

Những Truyện Cổ Tích Hay Nhất Về Lòng Dũng Cảm - Trái Tim Dũng Cảm Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi:

The back of this book describes it as The Hunger Games meets A Handmaid's Tale. Those are some pretty big shoes to fill, and unfortunately Eve falls a few sizes short. I did enjoy it overall - I don't feel like it was a waste of my time and I wouldn't discourage anyone else from reading it - but it just didn't rock my world. The story is set about a dozen years after a plague wipes out most of the planet. The main character, Eve, lives in a walled, heavily guarded compound where she attends school with a bunch of other girls orphaned by the plague. The girls, who have never been allowed outside the compound, have been raised to believe all sorts of craziness, like that all men are evil and want to rape them (except the King, who is glorious and awesome). They also have been told that when their schooling is finished they will move to another building across the lake to learn a trade, and then they will live happily ever after in the King's City of Sand. Suffice it to say, Eve realizes that everything is not as it seems and runs off the night before her graduation. She bumbles around in the forest for a bit before joining up with some other runaways and orphans, all the while learning more and more about the world she really lives in. Then there's a lot a running and chasing, many lessons painfully learned, more chasing, more lessons, some tragic deaths, a magic kiss, the end. My biggest issues with this book are Eve and, well, pretty much everything Eve does. Given the way she was raised, I totally understand that she would be both clueless and helpless outside the compound walls (and also run screaming from men). What bugs me is that she doesn't change all that much over the course of the book. Yes, she gets over her man-terror (gotta have a love story, after all), but she remains reckless and sloppy and incapable and completely leotarded, putting everyone around her in danger again and again and again (and needing to be rescued again and again and again). I found this incredibly frustrating, as I prefer my heroines to be a bit more resourceful and on the ball. On the plus side, the author has created a very creepy and unnerving post-apocalyptic world. I also identified with that whole being raised to believe one thing and then getting thrust into the world and finding it to be something quite different. That sense of confusion and bewilderment felt very authentic to me, and it definitely helped me overlook some of Eve's foolish behavior. I just wish that she had found more confidence by the end of the book.

2018-04-19 09:30

Phong Tục Thế Giới - Phong Tục Cưới Hỏi Và Nuôi Con Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Thanh Liêm

LOVED this book. It made me laugh. It was an easy quick read that I didn't want to put down. I will totally read this book again and laugh all over again with it. Thanks Cath for this little gem of a book. :o) I don't know what else to say except if you read this short review...then READ THE BOOK! You won't be disappointed. :o) Some of my favorite quotes “So I saw Beth today. She asked me how you were doing. Sounded like she wants you back." '"We were over months ago." "You mind if I ask her out, then?" "You mind if I spray a piece on the side of your gran's house?" '... I ask, 'Do you think Dylan's telling the truth?' Daisy checks her face in a little mirror, then hands it to Jazz. 'You want me to find out?' 'Let's not ruin it by calling them liars.' "...I won't ruin it. I've got this special way of getting the truth out of Dylan." "How?" I ask. "I kick him in the balls." "That's pretty special." "What are you doing?" "Asking the universe questions." "The universe just dumped you over the side of a steep hill. You really want to ask it questions?" “I look over at Ed. He's staring out the window giving Leo the thumbs-down. I wait till he's looking at me, then I give him two fingers up. He gives me two fingers back. I give him the middle finger. He gives it back to me. I don't know any more signs, so I make up one. Three fingers. Take that, mister. He sticks up four. I call your four and raise you five. He skips straight to ten and does something with his thumb that disturbs me. I bounce my hands on my lap. Ed bounces his lap right back.” “You've been looking like this for months." Leo does something strange with his face. "I don't look like that." "Yeah. You do." "I'll look like that if Daisy dumps me, and she'll dump me if she thinks I lied," Dylan says. "You threw eggs at her head. Odds are she's dumping you anyway." I turn to Leo. "We decided. We said that we weren't telling anyone. We said it was art for art's sake. We said the more people knew, the more chance the cop's pick us up. We said it was you and me, no crew." "Are you sure I didn't say it was to score girls?” “Emma Forest?" Jazz asks. "His ex is the girl with the big...?" "That's the one," Daisy tells her. Jazz looks at her chest. I pat her shoulder. "Guys care about personality too." "Girls like me started that rumor.”

Người đọc Andi Suryadi từ Villa del Marchese PG, Italy

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.