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32nd out of 108 books
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Undone
When Kori Kitlzer, the “dark angel” of the 8th grade, tells Serena Moore that they are more alike than she thinks, Serena is instantly intrigued. As their friendship solidifies and their lives entwine, Serena tries to become more like the fearless, outspoken, and ambitious Kori. Soon Serena doesn’t know where she begins and Kori ends. But when a twist of fate yanks Kori aw...more
Hardcover, 320 pages
Published
July 22nd 2008
by Walker Childrens
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Jan 28, 2009
Steph (Reviewer X)
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4 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Everyone, especially reluctant readers.
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To say this is a novel about finding yourself is to simultaneously hit the mark and to sell it short, because while that is precisely what it is, when I finished reading it, I felt it accomplished much more than the "finding yourself" bit. Thing is, it’s hard to define Undone, if only because it fits so many categories and themes of self-discovery: mothers and daughters, best friends, first loves, first temptations, missing fathers, so on, so forth. The truth of the matter is, it touches on many...more
Kori Kitzler is different - to say the least. She is beautiful, mysterious, the subject of rumors, and has quite a reputation with the guys. One fateful day in eighth grade, average girl Serena Moore walks into the bathroom and runs into Kori. Serena is shocked when Kori tells her they are more alike then she thinks, but instead of turning around and running out of the bathroom Serena stays. This marks the beginning a deep and powerful friendship between the girls. Since that fateful day the gir...more
I have a hard time with young adult novels where a character (often a girl) is depicted as so badass and cool and amazing and of course something bad happens to her. That's actually not a spoiler. I couldn't really see why Kori was so great. I also found all of the twists predictable and didn't like that everything wrapped together neatly in the end. Still, it was an enjoyable read and I'm willing to suspend my disbelief of those sorts of things.
The one unforgiveable thing to me is the constant...more
The one unforgiveable thing to me is the constant...more
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I am glad I checked this out of the library instead of buying it! This is one of those books where the characters are all so unlikable that I didn't want to keep reading about them, but the plot was decent enough to make me finish the book. The main character, Serena, finds a list of five things her best friend, Kori, wanted to do, and so she decides to take on the items herself and complete the list, even though they're kind of cryptic and she doesn't know exactly what they all mean. Kori is su...more
Dec 14, 2008
Maelstrom Reviews
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5 of 5 stars
Recommends it for:
Realistic Fiction Fans
Recommended to Maelstrom by:
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Serena and Kori have one of those friendships; one of those, you-are-everything-to-me-sisters-forevah kind of friendships. And to think that it started with a chance encounter in the eighth grade in a school bathroom.
Serena is quiet and subtly rebelling against her distant, Stepford-esque mother. Kori is the one with the guts and the voice. Serena is c...more
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Serena and Kori have one of those friendships; one of those, you-are-everything-to-me-sisters-forevah kind of friendships. And to think that it started with a chance encounter in the eighth grade in a school bathroom.
Serena is quiet and subtly rebelling against her distant, Stepford-esque mother. Kori is the one with the guts and the voice. Serena is c...more
Undone is a story of friendship and grief. Kori and Serena are best friends. Though when they first met they appeared to come from very different worlds. Now, after several years of close friendship, the girls are inseparable. In fact, the girls are becoming more difficult to tell apart. Serena, our narrator, could never imagine a day could come where she'd be separated from Kori. But Kori's tragic death hits Serena hard. Serena decides one way for her to deal, to cope with her friend's death is...more
"Undone" is a story about highschool student Serena Moore and her best friend, Kori. Serena and Kori met in the eigthth grade, and have been best friends ever since. However, they have their differences; Serena is shy and a closet gaming fanatic, while Kori is a risk-taker who is afraid of nothing. Depite these differences, Kori has always looked after Serena like an older sister, and Serena learned to depend on Kori for protection and answers; they were always together. After several late-night...more
Right, this book was difficult for me to get into. During the first few chapters, I nearly set it down many, many times. But, for once, I perservered, and am forced to admit it as a decent book. Nothing special, but I'm glad I finished it. It was quite different than the other books I've been reading, though it had the element of romance I could have done more without... I give it points for a touch of unpredictability, though. Usually I'm good at guessing where a love story is going, but this o...more
Serena Moore is, for the most part, your average high school student. A couple of years ago her relationship with her mom deteriorated and she doesn't know why or how to repair it. She loves her best friend Kori Kitzler who is both a good and a bad influence. She's a gamer, finding refuge in the programming she can control. Although she wishes fellow computer geek Josh didn't have a crush on her. And that she could talk to Anthony Beck normally.
Brooke Taylor swiftly sets up this high school atmo...more
Brooke Taylor swiftly sets up this high school atmo...more
When I first picked up this book, the description led me to believe it’d be about Kori. But really, only a small part is about Kori. Undone is Serena’s story; it’s a story of tempting fate, testing the bonds of friendship, discovering one’s identity, overcoming grief, growing up. Undone is Serena’s journey, but it also offers the reader a journey, one that, if you allow it, can reach the deepest part of your heart and possibly change your outlook on life.
Serena doesn’t know what made Kori decide...more
Serena doesn’t know what made Kori decide...more
I actually stumbled onto this book by mistake. After art class one Wednesday, I walked to the library to wait for my mom to pick me up. I was already reading like 10 books at once at this time, but I went browsing around anyway.
While browsing through a pile of books I found Undone. The copy looked new-ish, as if it was barely opened. Now, I usually don’t like covers with people’s faces on them, but I just LOVED this cover!!! I know you’re not supposed to judge a book by it’s cover, but that’s e...more
While browsing through a pile of books I found Undone. The copy looked new-ish, as if it was barely opened. Now, I usually don’t like covers with people’s faces on them, but I just LOVED this cover!!! I know you’re not supposed to judge a book by it’s cover, but that’s e...more
I bought this book at a used book store for about $5. And I must say, it was one of the best buys I have gotten there. It is such an interesting read and I never really knew what to expect next.
Serena is the best fried to Kori, the eccentric, totally out of the ordinary girl who everyone talks about, either good or bad. Whereas Serena is the tag along, her and Kori became friends at a young age and have been inseparable ever since. Not only are Kori and Serena always together, getting into troub...more
Serena is the best fried to Kori, the eccentric, totally out of the ordinary girl who everyone talks about, either good or bad. Whereas Serena is the tag along, her and Kori became friends at a young age and have been inseparable ever since. Not only are Kori and Serena always together, getting into troub...more
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Undone is a book about a girl,Serena, who looses her best friend, Kori. While going through her locker she finds a paper from an assignment called "Tempting Fate." The assignment was to write down ways that they could well, tempt fate. Kori had written at the bottom of her paper that she didn't want anything to be left undone. Serena decides that she wants to finish out the list for Kori. What she discovers along the way is shocking.
I didn't like the book at the beginning. It starts out really s...more
I didn't like the book at the beginning. It starts out really s...more
Although I have read some reviews that felt Undone was a bit predictable, I was completely taken in by the story. I wanted to know what happened to Kori that caused her to change so dramatically and understand why Serena went along with her friend's crazy ideas. Kori and Serena were both highly emotional characters and Taylor did a great job bringing those emotions off the page. I could feel the depth of Serena's loss and how utterly lost she was in her own life without Kori to ground her. All o...more
The concept of this one was really cool but it ended up being nothing special. For a social psych class, Serena, along with her best friend Kori, makes a list of five ways she would tempt fate. When an accident leaves Serena in possession of Kori's list she must decide if she will tempt fate in her friend's memory. It sounds interesting and the author could have done a lot with it. Unfortunately, the first 100 pages or so take place before the accident occurs and most of the time during that 100...more
Kori and Serena could be twins except for Serena's blue eyes and the fact that her black hair is really dyed. They met on the first day of 8th grade when, after a messy chem class accident, Serena found Kori, dark, edgy, mysterious, and seemingly fearless, in what she had thought was a deserted bathroom and was pulled into Kori's smoky and shadowed world. Ever since the day they became best friends, Kori changed Serena's life, challenging her to push her boundaries and try new things.
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When I first started reading this book I wasn't sure...it seemed too much like the author trying to replicate the voice of a teenager, like she was relying on too many pop culture references and attempting to create a language that was like a teen talking. But I kept reading and the story took hold and the author found her voice and the characters she ended up writing ended up feeling more real than many of the other books I've read. It ended up reminding me more of Blake Nelson. The story is of...more
I am in love with this book! I first picked it up in my school's library simply because it looked interesting. Little did I know a couple of nights later, I would be in my room, crying my eyes out for a half and hour while my sister comes in my room asking "WHATS WRONG?". Looking at her with tears streaming down my face, I turned to her and said...
( *SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER!!!!!*)
"......Kori died" and continued crying my eyes out. It literally felt like I lost a friend and when I found out their...more
( *SPOILER SPOILER SPOILER!!!!!*)
"......Kori died" and continued crying my eyes out. It literally felt like I lost a friend and when I found out their...more
Initially, I thought this book was a poor rip-off of John Green's Looking for Alaska, but although there were some similarities, this went in a different -- and interesting -- direction. In the end, while I wasn't super enthusiastic about it, I thought it wasn't bad.
This was a student suggested read. She loved it - probably because of the rebellious nature of the girls in the story. She's a student who is very bright but likes to push the line. She thought the author HAD to be a teenager because she understood teens so well. The author is actually in the thirties! Teens forget we all were really there once.
I liked it too. I loved Serena because I too could relate to her. Always trying to keep up with or be like the "dangerous" friend while keeping some part...more
I liked it too. I loved Serena because I too could relate to her. Always trying to keep up with or be like the "dangerous" friend while keeping some part...more
I only gave this four stars because I give almost every YA book 5 stars. It was a moody story of a friendship between two girls--the edgy, cool, everyone-wonders-where-she-was-last-summer hip girl and the seeming nobody she befriends. Spoiler alert--one of the girls dies tragically and the other must carry on alone.
I like thinking about this book from the standpoint of literary doubles... kind of like a foil, if you remember that term. These two girls were psychic halves of a whole being and the...more
I like thinking about this book from the standpoint of literary doubles... kind of like a foil, if you remember that term. These two girls were psychic halves of a whole being and the...more
Ok, so I don;t really have enough time to write a full review so i'll say this and fix it later:
I LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVED IT!
Awesome! Awesome! Awesome!
It was something that was on my mind when I was not reading it and something that I enjoyed while reading it. Didn't want to put it down!
It really tugged at my heart strings....
Believable characters, plots, settings...could be based on a real story! Maybe it is...
Recommend it to anyone who wants to read about the trouble of growing up as a teenag...more
Dec 17, 2010
Mare S
rated it
5 of 5 stars
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review of another edition
Shelves:
2010-reads,
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This book had me hooked from page one. I loved the narrator provided to us in Serena. She was sarcastic and cynical, but still loving and hopeful. She wanted so much, but sometimes had trouble believing it was possible - such a typical emotion at that age, especially after she's dealt a terrible tragedy.
I enjoyed the dynamic she had with her friends and allowing us to see those relationships made all the harder when catastrophe came about.
Serena's grief and determination are what make this boo...more
I enjoyed the dynamic she had with her friends and allowing us to see those relationships made all the harder when catastrophe came about.
Serena's grief and determination are what make this boo...more
When Serena's best friend dies in a car accident, Serena has a difficult figuring out who she is without Kori.
I really enjoyed this book, it was dark, but not depressing and there were definitely things that made you think. What kept it from being a 5 star book for me was the stereotypes. I mean, do we need ANOTHER teen book where the bitchy cheerleaders are queens of the school and the queens of mean? We weren't all like that you know! I felt that Kori was a bit of stereotype too - which is fun...more
I really enjoyed this book, it was dark, but not depressing and there were definitely things that made you think. What kept it from being a 5 star book for me was the stereotypes. I mean, do we need ANOTHER teen book where the bitchy cheerleaders are queens of the school and the queens of mean? We weren't all like that you know! I felt that Kori was a bit of stereotype too - which is fun...more
I read this book at the recommendation of a student and as I read it, I could see how this particular student really connected with the story. Though I enjoyed the story, and really got into it after (spoiler) the friend's death - I found myself a bit annoyed at the main character's reticence to get on with it. I liked the duel love stories and the choice the MC makes on that. I found the resolution with the mother and who the father was a bit too convenient and implausible that she never would...more
I really wanted to love this book, because the premise and the beginning totally sucked me in. However as the story progressed, it became boring, predictable, dull, and the ending was way too easy. The tensions that built for the main character never exploded out in a realistic fashion and instead were dealt with by completely unrealistic huggles. For fans of morbid and introverted realistic novels, I would rather be reading Sarah Dessen. For stories of two different but similar best friends, I...more
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When I first picked up this book, the description led me to believe it’d be about Kori. But really, only a small part is about Kori. Undone is Serena’s story; it’s a story of tempting fate, testing the bonds of friendship, discovering one’s identity, overcoming grief, growing up. Undone is Serena’s journey, but it also offers the reader a journey, one that, if you allow it, can reach the deepest part of your heart and possibly change your outlook on lif...more
When I first picked up this book, the description led me to believe it’d be about Kori. But really, only a small part is about Kori. Undone is Serena’s story; it’s a story of tempting fate, testing the bonds of friendship, discovering one’s identity, overcoming grief, growing up. Undone is Serena’s journey, but it also offers the reader a journey, one that, if you allow it, can reach the deepest part of your heart and possibly change your outlook on lif...more
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“There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away." Pg. 155 Undone”
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