Sunday, January 5, 2014

Review of Alias Grace

In Alias Grace, bestselling author Margaret Atwood has written her most captivating, disturbing, and ultimately satisfying work since The Handmaid's Tale. She takes us back in time and into the life of one of the most enigmatic and notorious women of the nineteenth century.
Grace Marks has been convicted for her involvement in the vicious murders of her employer, Thomas Kinnear, and Nancy Montgomery, his housekeeper and mistress. Some believe Grace is innocent; others think her evil or insane. Now serving a life sentence, Grace claims to have no memory of the murders.
Dr. Simon Jordan, an up-and-coming expert in the burgeoning field of mental illness, is engaged by a group of reformers and spiritualists who seek a pardon for Grace. He listens to her story while bringing her closer and closer to the day she cannot remember. What will he find in attempting to unlock her memories? Is Grace a female fiend? A bloodthirsty femme fatale? Or is she the victim of circumstances? (www.goodreads.com)

I'm not going to review this book.
I have read 50 pages of it, and then decided it wasn't something I particularly wanted to invest more time in.
It's not a bad book, it has great potential of having blown my mind, but something just didn't convince me of reading more and seeing if it would be so.

So in the light that I didn't read this novel, I'm not going to review it.

Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Review of Gone


In the blink of an eye. Everyone disappears. GONE.
Except for the young. Teens. Middle schoolers. Toddlers. But not one single adult. No teachers, no cops, no doctors, no parents. Just as suddenly, there are no phones, no internet, no television. No way to get help. And no way to figure out what's happened.
Hunger threatens. Bullies rule. A sinister creature lurks. Animals are mutating. And the teens themselves are changing, developing new talents—unimaginable, dangerous, deadly powers—that grow stronger by the day.
It's a terrifying new world. Sides are being chosen, a fight is shaping up. Townies against rich kids. Bullies against the weak. Powerful against powerless. And time is running out: On your birthday, you disappear just like everyone else...(Goodreads)

An entertaining YA-novel is the best way to describe this novel.
The idea behind the book is a very good one, although somehow I'd like to see what this idea would perhaps turn into to when it got in the head of someone like Stephen King. A bit more macabre I bet.
Michael Grant let this be more sedate albeit there is a certain amount of violence in the book, it's very black and white. The good side and the bad, and it could've been more interesting if it had more grey areas in it.

Still it's not a bad read, I enjoyed it while I was reading it, and will probably read the other novels as well, maybe not right away, but somewhere down the line.
I need a bit of grown up fiction right now, because between reading my two year old her bedtime story and reading YA novels, I need a bit of substance in my literature.
Maybe starting 'Fountainhead' because I've been neglecting that one a bit.

Personal rating: 3 stars

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