Lenore Appelhans
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Conocimiento común
- Nombre canónico
- Appelhans, Lenore
- Nombre legal
- Appelhans, Lenore V.
- Otros nombres
- Jennewein, Lenore
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 05-31
- Género
- female
- Nacionalidad
- USA
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Minot, North Dakota, USA
- Lugares de residencia
- Frankfurt, Germany
- Agente
- Stephen Barbara (Foundry Literary Media)
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- Obras
- 5
- También por
- 1
- Miembros
- 373
- Popularidad
- #64,664
- Valoración
- 3.3
- Reseñas
- 34
- ISBNs
- 37
- Idiomas
- 2
This is one of those books I feel like I enjoyed more than I quite ought to, somehow. When I started it, I was hoping for some weird and wacky meta-ness, and maybe a bit of sharp satire on the whole Manic Pixie Dream Girl concept. As it turns out, the meta-ness is mildly clever and amusing, but not quite the wildly and brilliantly inventive thing I might have wished for, and the commentary on the trope is mostly fairly shallow, with a brief descent or two into over-earnestness. The plot ultimately turns out to be pretty thin, too, and, perhaps unsurprisingly, the whole thing does get a bit too silly, making it not nearly as satisfying in the end as it should have been.
And yet. And yet, it was also warm and fun and cute, and apparently very much the sort of thing my slightly stressed-out brain was in the mood for just now, and I think I was smiling at least a little bit through a lot of it. Yeah, yeah, embarrassing as it is, I suppose you could maybe say that despite myself it won me over with its quirky, quirky ways and its vivacious lust for life, or something. Not completely, in the end. But maybe just enough.… (más)