Randall Hicks
Autor de Adopting in America: How to Adopt Within One Year
Sobre El Autor
Randall B. Hicks is an attorney in Southern California whose career is dedicated to helping families adopt quickly, ethically and affordably. He has completed more than 800 domestic and international adoptions and is considered one of the nation's leading adoption attorneys and authors. He hosted mostrar más the PBS series Adoption Forum and is a member of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys mostrar menos
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Obras de Randall Hicks
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Género
- male
- Ocupaciones
- Adoption Attorney
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 8
- Miembros
- 71
- Popularidad
- #245,552
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 19
Set in the real life world of competitive figure skating, “The Girl Without a Face” is an interesting, poignant novel that features real skating events (for example the Grand Prix Series, Nationals, and the Olympics) and real life places (the home rink Katie skates at really exists but is now sadly closed) mixed in with the fictional story of Katie. And Katie’s story is very well done – scarred both on the outside and inside, she grows to realize that she can not only have friends and realize her dreams but help people despite her disfigured face. She has a wicked sense of humor that had me chuckling more than once while reading the book. I loved reading as she grows as a character throughout the course of the book, discovering that she may have been wrong about a few things but willing to learn from her mistakes. And oh can she skate! As for the skating elements, I found they were nicely done with a good mixture of real and fictional characters including real-life skaters and a few real-life coaches. I am not a skater but a skating fan who watches as much skating as I can every year (not just in Olympic years) and I found the skating elements to be just right (as a non-skater I can’t speak to the minute scoring aspects). To be sure, there were a few times, especially towards the end of the book, when I was muttering “this would never happen in real life” but the book is fiction after all (and the authors freely admit they took some licenses with some skating aspects) and it does make for some thrilling moments towards the end of the book. Finally, I loved the final sentences of the book – what a perfect way to end the book!
“The Girl Without a Face” is a nicely done novel.… (más)