Sophie Blue started wearing a black skirt and Midnight Noir lipstick on her last birthday. It was also the day her father disappeared. Or spontaneo...
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Mar 03, 2011
Paula
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This is a strange book meant for those who like those "edgy" books that drive many librarians nuts. What I can say about it is that it will hold your attention because you will be so busy trying to figure out what is going on and making predictions based on the clues that you will not be bored. Sophie Blue, also known as "Gothika," is trying to piece together a mystery that began with the disappearance of her father on her sixteenth birthday. He has been gone a year, and her
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Jul 03, 2010
Rachael
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On Sophie Blue’s last birthday, her dad disappeared. Since that day, she’s worn all black. Now, her birthday is approaching again, and Sophie thinks she might be losing her mind. She keeps having these weird dreams that she’s going to get run over by an ice cream truck with tinted windows, and there’s one just like it that keeps circling her house, which also keeps getting broken into. Then there’s this whole thing about a lab and an evil Nurse. Of course, no one but Sophie seems to know about t
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Nov 29, 2009
Maggie
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Sophie Blue and Kenny Fade seem to have nothing in common: she's the goth, he's the school's dreamboat basketball star. But now, one year after Sophie's father mysteriously disappeared on her seventeenth birthday, nothing seems to make sense. First, a freaky popsicle truck begins to circle Sophie's house and follow her to school. And then Kenny starts to feel like his life...is More...
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Sophie Blue and Kenny Fade seem to have nothing in common: she's the goth, he's the school's dreamboat basketball star. But now, one year after Sophie's father mysteriously disappeared on her seventeenth birthday, nothing seems to make sense. First, a freaky popsicle truck begins to circle Sophie's house and follow her to school. And then Kenny starts to feel like his life...is More...
May 08, 2010
Rosalia
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Sophie thinks she is losing her mind, seeing an ice cream truck and having horrible nightmares where she wakes up with bruises that make her wonder what's really going on. Kenny thinks he's losing it to, hearing and experiencing weird feelings, static and mysterious computer code. What does it all mean?
This book kind of reminds me of the Matrix (I'm afraid to explain why cause it might be a spoiler so if you care about things like that skip the end of this run on sentence) because More...
This book kind of reminds me of the Matrix (I'm afraid to explain why cause it might be a spoiler so if you care about things like that skip the end of this run on sentence) because More...
Aug 31, 2009
E.
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Fade to Blue is easily among the weirdest books I’ve ever read – and the most engaging. The heroine, Sophie Blue – or Gothika, as her not-so-friendly classmates call her – is haunted by visions of a mad popsicle truck driver, and thinks she hears a voice telling her to visit ‘the lab.’ Sophie’s best friend, Lake, an ex-cheerleader-turned-paraplegic, has little advice to offer. Her mother is too depressed and disconnected to help. The school counselor only makes her write essays, and her brother,
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Jun 03, 2009
Karin
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It is hard for me to even decide what to write for this review. I still don’t know if I understand what happened.
Sophie Blue is a high school senior. She lives the life of a loner – especially since the disappearance of her father. She has taken to dressing goth and is being forced to see a therapist.
Sophie feels like she is losing her mind. She keeps seeing a dilapidated ice cream truck everwhere she goes and sees things that others around her don’t seem to see. Her More...
Sophie Blue is a high school senior. She lives the life of a loner – especially since the disappearance of her father. She has taken to dressing goth and is being forced to see a therapist.
Sophie feels like she is losing her mind. She keeps seeing a dilapidated ice cream truck everwhere she goes and sees things that others around her don’t seem to see. Her More...
Apr 02, 2010
Brittany
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One day Sophie Blue's father disappeared and no one knows what happened. Sophie has since noticed a Popsicle truck with tinted windows that seems to be everywhere. Kenny Fade is a popular basketball jock. He seems to have a normal life, up until he doesn't. The only thing linking Kenny and Sophie is that they are both starting to see and hear things that aren't really there.
It says that this book keeps you guessing until the last paragraph. It does because half the time you have no i More...
It says that this book keeps you guessing until the last paragraph. It does because half the time you have no i More...
Jun 13, 2010
Amanda
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I was being generous by giving this book one star. The only reason it is getting one star is because the story line could have been great. Instead it was a jumbled mess of characters and the plot was nothing short of confusing.
I got the fact that Sophie's father left and she is supposed to be some weird expreiment, but I was so confused halfway through the book I really have no idea what happened between chapter twelve and the final chapter, which oddly is chapter zero. I felt like I c More...
I got the fact that Sophie's father left and she is supposed to be some weird expreiment, but I was so confused halfway through the book I really have no idea what happened between chapter twelve and the final chapter, which oddly is chapter zero. I felt like I c More...
Apr 25, 2011
Lil' Grogan
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It occurs to me that when I was a "young adult" I didn't read young adult books. I had no interest in reading about other teenagers (I was too busy fighting orcs, oh the nerdity). I read about teens when I was 10, and now as an apparent adult. Hmm.
Thought the spinning out of the story was done well. From a seemingly normal situation (Sophie in therapy for her missing father) to the surreal. The slightly off-kilter feeling grew into outright paranoia as hints were dropped al More...
Thought the spinning out of the story was done well. From a seemingly normal situation (Sophie in therapy for her missing father) to the surreal. The slightly off-kilter feeling grew into outright paranoia as hints were dropped al More...
Mar 01, 2009
Kathy
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Follow the story of Kenny Fade (Fah-day) and Sophie Blue in this fast paced story. The chapter titles count up from 0 until you reach the comic book and then count down to 0. The three stories are all interrelated. You follow Sophie Blue as she tries to piece together what happened to her dad and why that Insane Ice Cream truck keeps trying to run her down!
The book is filled with smart, sarcastic comments, pop-culture references, and virtual reality. I couldn't put it down, except More...
The book is filled with smart, sarcastic comments, pop-culture references, and virtual reality. I couldn't put it down, except More...
Nov 17, 2009
Jessica
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This is definitely one of the strangest books that I have read in a while, and I'm not really sure if I liked it. It was a fascinating read, and I kept thinking about the book after I was done. But overall, I think it missed the mark in a few ways.
Fade to Blue is the story of Sophie Blue, who decided to start wearing all black, including her lipstick, on her last birthday, which was also the last time she saw her father. Sophie is pretty sure that she is losing her mind, and the scary drea More...
Fade to Blue is the story of Sophie Blue, who decided to start wearing all black, including her lipstick, on her last birthday, which was also the last time she saw her father. Sophie is pretty sure that she is losing her mind, and the scary drea More...
Aug 23, 2011
Peggy
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This is an enjoyable, although somewhat predictable, sotry of Suz Mitchell who moves to California with her son when her husband goes to prison for drug dealing and other crimes. She gets a job restoring artwork at a castle. She is caught in the middle when her ex-husband gets out on parole and comes to find her, proclaiming his love and change of heart, along with a serious old flame from her past who also lives there. Suz struggles with hoping Len has truly reformed and wondering if he trul
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Oct 23, 2011
Jennelle
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This book was weird and at times confusing, but completely fun and entertaining to read. Just when you think you know where the book was going, a new twist would be thrown at you, or you'd come across a comic or a chapter written totally in binary code. And with chapters that counted up and then back down and had titles like: "I'd laugh if someone had bothered to program me a mouth," "Ketchup is a Vegetable" and " It's just like a horror movie, except no cameras or lig
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May 18, 2010
This was a YA book that I do not recommend. The main character's father disappeared one day, and ever since, wierd things started happening to her and her brother, and some of their friends. This book was science fiction, and hard to follow and understand. Other reviewers on goodreads have compared this book to The Matrix. It's a good comparison, I didn't understand The Matrix either, and the switching between realities that occurred in both Fade to Blue and The Matrix caused them both to be
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Oct 06, 2009
April
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My initial thoughts after finishing Fade to Blue by Sean Beaudoin were WTF did I just read. Either this book is bloody brilliant or the most illogical, strangest book I've ever read. It sort of reminds me of Donnie Darko, I know I should get it, but I don't fully understand the work.
Fade to Blue follows several characters - notably Sophie Blue and Kenny Fade, two people in a town which is basically run by a mega-conglomerate. The company, Fade Labs uses human beings to test their med More...
Fade to Blue follows several characters - notably Sophie Blue and Kenny Fade, two people in a town which is basically run by a mega-conglomerate. The company, Fade Labs uses human beings to test their med More...
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Dec 26, 2009
Abby
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Sophie Blue is a loner, goth girl who has to go to therapy sessions and talk about her father who disappeared on her birthday. Kenny Fade is a star basketball player and the most popular guy in school. These two high schoolers have absolutely nothing in common... except the fact that they're both pretty sure they're going insane. Weird things keep happening... or is it just all in their heads?
This book is a major trip with nonstop crazy action and plot twists all over the place. It' More...
This book is a major trip with nonstop crazy action and plot twists all over the place. It' More...
Jan 14, 2012
Donna
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This book is nine different level of FUCKING AWESOME! I don't know what's better; the total snark attack or the fact that the plot is so FUBAR that you have to read it again and again and again because it's twisted your brain into a knot and no matter how much you squint, you just can't untie it.
This is not a book you can just skim through because if you do, you'll be more lost than Hansel and Gretel. You have to pay attention. And if you do, you will be amply rewarded and quite possib More...
This is not a book you can just skim through because if you do, you'll be more lost than Hansel and Gretel. You have to pay attention. And if you do, you will be amply rewarded and quite possib More...
Oct 17, 2009
alexis
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Pub Date: August 1, 2009
Summary: Ever wonder how long it takes to lose your mind?
Sophie Blue
Sarcastic. Artistic. Gothic.
A year ago on her birthday, her father left.
Or maybe he joined a cult.
Or just combusted.
No one really knows.
But he had bad timing because now Sophie’s being followed.
A Popsicle truck with tinted windows has started circling her house.
Kenny Fade
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Summary: Ever wonder how long it takes to lose your mind?
Sophie Blue
Sarcastic. Artistic. Gothic.
A year ago on her birthday, her father left.
Or maybe he joined a cult.
Or just combusted.
No one really knows.
But he had bad timing because now Sophie’s being followed.
A Popsicle truck with tinted windows has started circling her house.
Kenny Fade
Bask More...
Nov 22, 2011
Sue
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This was the most confusing book I've ever read. And I read a book in which the 12 or so characters you were introduced to were really only 2 people with multiple personalities. In this book just about the time you thought you knew what was going on everything fell apart. Then there's a chapter written as a comic in the middle. I liked the characters. I just wasn't sure what was happening from one chapter to another.
There are a few narrators. Sophie Blue, aka Gothika, has a broth More...
There are a few narrators. Sophie Blue, aka Gothika, has a broth More...
Jan 04, 2010
Em31094
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Okay, I looked at this cover in the library and was like "Hmmm weird cover, but kinda interesting. Guess I'll rent it and I might read it." Unfortunately I read it and was extremely confused. I didn't enjoy this book at all and I'm still wondering what happened. The book made absolutely NO SENSE to me and if you understood what happened I applaud you because you must be a genius. So unless you are very intelligent or want to be confused DON'T READ THIS. just a warning.
Aug 30, 2011
Keli
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This book was entertaining and bizarre-edgy-surreal. At times it seemed that it tried too hard. But the target audience is younger teens, so it works well on that level. It has the added benefit of being appropriate for older teens who are below reading level, however the plot is a bit disjointed and confusing so individuals with poor narrative skills may have trouble staying engaged.
Nov 19, 2009
Marilyn
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The cover is appealing; I know teens, especially girls will pick it up. Too bad it's so confusing, and in the end, unreadable, for me anyway. I wanted to like it but the writing was so jumpy and hard to follow I had to put it down after 100 pages. Too much work! Some language.
Mar 29, 2011
Katrina
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Hmmmmm....enough said. I looked at others' reviews of this book on GoodReads, and it has confirmed that I am not crazy. While I gave it three stars, simply because I am still so confused, I may go back and change that as the story settles in my brain.
Jun 02, 2011
Michelle.
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THIS BOOK WAS SOOOOO BAD!
I was uninteresting so I just skimmed through it and I didn't even finish doing that!
The book was a waste of time and I wish I never took it out of the library. And the cover pisses me off.
BAHHHHHHH! I'm annoyed.
I was uninteresting so I just skimmed through it and I didn't even finish doing that!
The book was a waste of time and I wish I never took it out of the library. And the cover pisses me off.
BAHHHHHHH! I'm annoyed.
Jul 15, 2009
Carol(ina)
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Just put it back down on your shelf and skip it. It's too confusing and the plot wasn't well-executed. It had potential but it just fell flat. In fact, everything was flat, including the characters. I would not recommend this book to anyone.
Sep 22, 2011
Laura
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Okay...so this is quite a wierd novel.
Even now, I'm not sure what to make of it. I kind of read it in a bit of a daze, ony half paying attention.
It could have been better, really.
Even now, I'm not sure what to make of it. I kind of read it in a bit of a daze, ony half paying attention.
It could have been better, really.
Oct 20, 2010
Crystal
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I thought this book was kind of confusing. Maybe its just me but, it was hard to follow some of the time and the ending was weird. To me it felt like it left you hanging, because I didn't really know what the point of that kind of ending was.
Feb 17, 2010
Lynn
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Mildly interesting YA novel. Some clever humor, but also some clunky gimmicks…like products named Eye-pod and Diet Crank. Virtual reality plotline went unexplained. Characters not well developed.
Feb 19, 2011
Esther
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A story that seriously messes with your mind. I had a hard time guessing what was real and what was virtual. You'd be sorely disappointed if you assumed that everything was virtual.
Oct 06, 2009
Emily
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Hmmmm. not so sure if I liked it or not. It was very disconnected and I had a hard time staying interested, but at the same wanted to know how it all tied together.
