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Cargando... Sarah Dessen Deluxe Boxed Set- Includes 9 Books (edición 2009)por Sarah Dessen (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Not quite up there among my favorites by this author but it’s still a solid read, especially if you’re looking for something set in the summer. Auden is not the best at socializing and isn’t always nicest, so that was good, I like a heroine with flaws. Eli, Auden’s potential love interest, intrigued me early on with the brooding loner thing and distancing himself from his friends. It’s just that once this hit the middle section neither Auden nor Eli held up as quite as interesting to me as they’d been at the beginning, they both kind of lost that bit of an edge to their personalities that they’d had in the beginning, which, I mean, that was growth, growth should be a good thing for a character and a story but maybe that growth came a little too soon or something? I don’t know, just pacing wise, somewhere along the way this lost some momentum, there was a chunk of this book where it didn’t feel like there was much going on, where it could have used a bit more plot, maybe some goals for these two to work towards or something. The joys of late night shopping and pie and the mini-mart, that stuff was cute, even relatable and memorable just not necessarily as page-turning as I would have liked. But there were other things that staved off any actual boredom. I really enjoyed the friend group, they were a good mix of quirk and heart. I particularly liked Maggie, with her combination of book smarts, fashion sense, trick riding, a disapproving mom, and a guy cutely crushing on her, there were moments where I wondered if I may have preferred her as the lead character, it seemed like she had more potential story in her than Auden did. Also, I don’t know how much the stepmom’s struggles with her awful husband and her newborn will appeal to this book’s intended teen audience but as an adult reader I was impressed by the messy realism there to the point where it got me hoping that Sarah Dessen may someday try her hand at an adult novel. Lastly, I wanted to note that if you have the opportunity to read Dessen’s novels in chronological order, Along For The Ride continues her fun habit of inserting cameos/Easter eggs from her previous books, most of them are extremely brief like if you’re reading too fast you might even miss it, but when you do spot a certain character riding by on her bicycle or a key necklace makes an appearance, etc., they’re just lovely little bonuses to the reading experience. Green eyes strike again! Seriously... Apparently I'm wild enough to not require a full translation of 'all that bike shit' into English. How cool is that? I did it again. 1 book in 1 day. Wow. I find myself inspired to give the bike thing another shot. Among other things. Sigh. Wonderful. Inspiring. Warm. Achingly hopeful. Simply wow
Until this wallflower blooms, the story feels a bit airless. But the satisfying ending will give many readers a lump in their throat. Dessen reworks well-traveled terrain and creates a remarkably original story with realistic teen dialogue, authentic girl friendships and a complex underlying question: Can people really change? provides the interpersonal intricacies fans expect from a Dessen plot. Rounding out her latest offering with richly depicted female friendships, Dessen offers up a summertime tale of self-discovery. The cover may mislead readers, as despite the body language of the girl in pink and the hunky blue-jeaned boy balanced on a bike, this is no slight romance: there’s real substance here. Dessen’s many fans will not be deterred by the length or that cover; they expect nuanced, subtle writing, and they won’t be disappointed. Contenido enAparece abreviada enPremiosDistincionesListas Notables
Dos corazones solitarios, unidos por la magia de las noches en la playa. Ahora, con todo el verano por delante, todo puede pasar... Desde que comenzaron las peleas y sus padres se divorciaron, Auden no ha podido dormir. Ahora, tiene la oportunidad de pasar un verano idílico en la casa de playa de su padre, quien vive con su nueva familia. Un trabajo en una tienda de ropa introduce a Auden al mundo de las chicas de su edad: las amigas, las charlas en confianza, el romance. Ella, ocupada complaciendo a una madre demandante, se ha perdido todo eso. Entonces llega Eli, un chico solitario e igualmente insomne que se convierte en su guía por las cálidas noches de verano. Juntos se embarcarán en aventuras paralelas: para Auden, experimentar una vida libre de preocupaciones propia de una adolescente; para Eli, liberarse de la culpa que siente por la muerte de su amigo. "Capta maravillosamente esa sensación del verano como un umbral dorado entre los arrepentimientos del pasado y las incertidumbres del futuro" --The Washington Post ENGLISH DESCRIPTION From award-winning and New York Times bestselling author. Up all night. Nights have always been Auden's time, her chance to escape everything that's going on around her. Then she meets Eli, a fellow insomniac, and he becomes her nocturnal tour guide. Now, with an endless supply of summer nights between them, almost anything can happen. . . . "As with all Dessen's books, [this] is a must-have" --VOYA, starred review Sarah Dessen is the winner of the Margaret A. Edwards Award for her contributions to YA literature, as well as the Romantic Times Career Achievement Award. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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the characters were kind of annoying: too simplistic, not really believable (except maggie, one of stepmother's employees and auden's new friend. she was the most believable and my favorite by far). the story unfolds pretty well though. thankfully, the characters developed a bit more depth as well. still, was glad when it was over. ( )