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Indlæser... That Summer (udgave 2004)af Sarah Dessen (Forfatter)
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Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. I think it is time for Sarah Dessen and I to part company. Although she writes for teenage girls, I find her protagonists annoying and self-centred, and Haven was no exception. She was bratty and I was irritated by the way she kept looking back to 'that summer' with rose-coloured glasses. Overall, I found the characters flat, the plot bland and there was too much teenage angst for my liking. The only positive going for "That Summer" was that it was a short read. I've only read one other Sarah Dessen book and I'm glad I didn't start with this one. I chose one of her highest rated books to read then chose this one because I needed something lighter and it happened to be available on my library's overdrive account. This book read more like a novella (it came in at a whopping 194 pages on my Kindle). While there's nothing wrong with this, there definitely wasn't a whole lot that happened. The book covers most of one summer and there are such big time gaps with not much happening overall in terms of plot. This is definitely a character driven book with the main character Haven (whose name I unfortunately has to look up even after just finishing it) having to face a lot of change with both her father and sister's marriages in the same summer. Part of the problem was that I'm not 15/16 years old anymore like the main character and another was that this read like a cross between a diary and a first person narrative. Both kept me feeling like I couldn't quite make a connection which left me feeling like this book while having good overall intentions fell a little flat for me. Better luck next time on my next Sarah Dessen... whenever the contemporary mood falls upon me. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
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During the summer of her divorced father's remarriage and her sister's wedding, fifteen-year-old Haven comes into her own by letting go of the myths of the past. No library descriptions found. |
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PS- I read this on audio & it took a minute to get used to this narrator. I liked her better than the Dreamland narrator, but my fave is the Lock & Key narrator. ( )