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I'm going to post about something other than books at some point, I swear, but I just keep READING things and then I have stuff to SAY about it and, well. Here be reviews!
First, E. Lockhart's Fly on the Wall, a slim novel about a girl who is transformed into a fly on the wall of the boy's locker room at her school.
Let us begin by admiring the brilliance of this premise. It makes absolutely no sense (and no explanation is ever offered), but it allows Lockhart to write a hundred pages thinly plotted pages about boys being naked. I bet this book enjoys a lot of covert popularity among junior high girls.
( Unfortunately… )
On a slightly different but still disappointed note, a review of Jaclyn Moriarty's The Ghosts of Ashbury High, the fourth of her Ashbury High companion novels.
I loved the earlier novels - especially The Murder of Bindi Mackenzie - and therefore approached this latest effort in a pitch of anticipation so fevered as to be deleterious to anything short of a tour de force. And, though Moriarty's characters are buoyant and beautifully realized as ever, The Ghosts of Ashbury High is hardly a tour de force.
For one thing: not nearly enough Bindi Mackenzie.
More seriously, though, The Ghosts of Ashbury High has pretty epic pacing issues.
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First, E. Lockhart's Fly on the Wall, a slim novel about a girl who is transformed into a fly on the wall of the boy's locker room at her school.
Let us begin by admiring the brilliance of this premise. It makes absolutely no sense (and no explanation is ever offered), but it allows Lockhart to write a hundred pages thinly plotted pages about boys being naked. I bet this book enjoys a lot of covert popularity among junior high girls.
( Unfortunately… )
On a slightly different but still disappointed note, a review of Jaclyn Moriarty's The Ghosts of Ashbury High, the fourth of her Ashbury High companion novels.
I loved the earlier novels - especially The Murder of Bindi Mackenzie - and therefore approached this latest effort in a pitch of anticipation so fevered as to be deleterious to anything short of a tour de force. And, though Moriarty's characters are buoyant and beautifully realized as ever, The Ghosts of Ashbury High is hardly a tour de force.
For one thing: not nearly enough Bindi Mackenzie.
More seriously, though, The Ghosts of Ashbury High has pretty epic pacing issues.
( More )
