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Bestselling author Jaclyn Moriarty returns to Ashbury High for a story of romance, mysterious new classmates, and the terrors of making it through ...
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Sep 24, 2011
Janina
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Another winner from Moriarty!
Seriously, I love the Ashbury series. It has these quirky – but not too quirky – characters and just the right mix of humour, family issues, friendship, romance and suspense. While I would say that I liked Feeling Sorry For Celia and Finding Cassie Crazy a tiny bit better, Dreaming of Amelia brought back some of my favourite characters (Lydia and Seb!), but also introduced new ones I grew to love.
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Seriously, I love the Ashbury series. It has these quirky – but not too quirky – characters and just the right mix of humour, family issues, friendship, romance and suspense. While I would say that I liked Feeling Sorry For Celia and Finding Cassie Crazy a tiny bit better, Dreaming of Amelia brought back some of my favourite characters (Lydia and Seb!), but also introduced new ones I grew to love.
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Jan 10, 2012
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I have a strange relationship with Jaclyn Moriarty. I like her books, but I think they are full of a special (maybe Australian?) weirdness. The Ghosts of Ashbury High is no exception.
This book is the 4th about Ashbury High (the other 3 are in chronological order: Feeling Sorry for Celia: A Novel, The Year Of Secret Assignments and The Murder Of Bindy Mackenzie), but it's not a series, each book can be read independently, even though the cast of characters is pretty much the same.
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This book is the 4th about Ashbury High (the other 3 are in chronological order: Feeling Sorry for Celia: A Novel, The Year Of Secret Assignments and The Murder Of Bindy Mackenzie), but it's not a series, each book can be read independently, even though the cast of characters is pretty much the same.
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Aug 10, 2011
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Every time I've read Jaclyn Moriarty's books, I think: Oooh, this book is just so delicious that I can't imagine she's ever going to think up such awesomely wonderful sentences again. But I keep getting proven wrong. Dreaming of Amelia took me longer to read because I kept pausing to re-read sentences, they just feel so good in my brain :) However, I am determined to maintain my fan-girl tendencies and try to bring you a dignified review. Some info about the book:
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Oct 22, 2010
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All three books by Jaclyn Moriarty that I have read until now were a good mixture of a lot of fun and humor (often kindled by the changing perspectives), good, good writing (Mrs. Moriarty really makes me believe different persons must have composed the different points of view instead of just her), close observation and some tragedy. In Amelia the tragedy ingredient came in larger portions into the mix. I would label the book as "sad but not hopeless". Also a lot of mystery was stirred
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Aug 08, 2011
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I cannot praise this book enough. Jaclyn Moriarty has once again proven herself to be clever, AMAZING, awesome, a wonderful writer, and extremely creative. I mean, COME ON, who else could write a book like this and pull it off too?
Because it was pulled off brilliantly. I mean, at first, I was getting sort of bored (mainly of Tom Kincaid) and the randomness of it all. Plus, I kept on wondering how someone could write so much on their HSC Exam. Seriously.
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Because it was pulled off brilliantly. I mean, at first, I was getting sort of bored (mainly of Tom Kincaid) and the randomness of it all. Plus, I kept on wondering how someone could write so much on their HSC Exam. Seriously.
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Sep 29, 2010
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I wanted this book so badly that I made my boyfriend order it for me from Australia.
Screw you, United States! I ain't waitin' six more months!
Anyway, so the edition I read was called "Dreaming of Amelia" (although you can bet your sweet bippy I'll be getting this "Ghost of Ashbury High" edition as soon as it comes out), so let's take it from there.
Altogether, I didn't like it as much as my beloved Murder of Bindy Mackenzie. But, I mean, com More...
Screw you, United States! I ain't waitin' six more months!
Anyway, so the edition I read was called "Dreaming of Amelia" (although you can bet your sweet bippy I'll be getting this "Ghost of Ashbury High" edition as soon as it comes out), so let's take it from there.
Altogether, I didn't like it as much as my beloved Murder of Bindy Mackenzie. But, I mean, com More...
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Jul 09, 2011
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DREAMING OF AMELIA - is set in the world of Ashbury High where our beloved Lyd, Cass & Em are facing their final year of high school. The girls want to make this their best year yet but things are thrown into discourse after their rival school, Brookfield High is asked to share the stage in their final school play.
The students are also utterly captivated by an inseparable pair of scholarship students, Amelia & Riley who seem to do everything in their power to appear mysterious and secr More...
The students are also utterly captivated by an inseparable pair of scholarship students, Amelia & Riley who seem to do everything in their power to appear mysterious and secr More...
Jun 09, 2011
Brianne
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Oh man, Moriarty has done it again.
I love mysteries, and her books always keep my guessing until the very end. I figured out the biggest one in the book a page before it was revealed, which is perfect as it shows how Moriarty created and maintained suspense throughout the novel, while still giving her readers clues.
Every question that came up (and there were many) was resolved by the end of the novel, and though of some of the answers really surprised me, they were all belie More...
I love mysteries, and her books always keep my guessing until the very end. I figured out the biggest one in the book a page before it was revealed, which is perfect as it shows how Moriarty created and maintained suspense throughout the novel, while still giving her readers clues.
Every question that came up (and there were many) was resolved by the end of the novel, and though of some of the answers really surprised me, they were all belie More...
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Aug 11, 2011
Kara
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Okay, I admit it. That at the beginning of the book when nothing seemed to be connecting, I was concerned that I wouldn't like this 480 pg book. When I love a book, I welcome 400 and 500 pages, but since it started slow for me, I started to dread the pages of Ashbury High.
I'm so glad I stuck to it! If I hadn't, I wouldn't have been able to tell you how wonderful this story was. I've never read anything like it. It was so creative, I'm even subconsciously (partly) writing this review t More...
I'm so glad I stuck to it! If I hadn't, I wouldn't have been able to tell you how wonderful this story was. I've never read anything like it. It was so creative, I'm even subconsciously (partly) writing this review t More...
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Aug 11, 2011
So the copy I have is called The Ghosts of Ashbury High, but from the description this is definitely the same book...I have an advance reader copy courtesy of Scholastic and it could just be a working title. Anyhow, how do I feel about this book? Well, right before I read this one, I read another Scholastic advance, from a different author. I found some very interesting parallels in the books...essentially, that it appears S hires very talented writers to write fluff. This, I cannot disagree, wa
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Dec 21, 2011
Treasure
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A mystery unfolds for both the characters and the reader in this high school fiction set in Australia, at Ashbury High, which faithful readers will recognize from two of Moriarty’s other novels. The story is creatively (and confusingly!) told through student essays, blogs, e-mails, and scholarship committee papers. Readers must try to piece together the plot and the truth as the story and people’s assumptions about each other unfold.
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Jan 30, 2011
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It was a dark and stormy night (when I started reading The Ghosts of Ashbury High). The rain fell torrentially and the trees outside rattled against my window occasionally. The house was silent and I was all alone. The lights in the street were out and I was reading by candlelight (ok, not really, but just go with the flow…). Reader! Hear the truth of my words! I had a strong sense of foreboding and a feeling of impending DOOM right after the first few pages and I f More...
It was a dark and stormy night (when I started reading The Ghosts of Ashbury High). The rain fell torrentially and the trees outside rattled against my window occasionally. The house was silent and I was all alone. The lights in the street were out and I was reading by candlelight (ok, not really, but just go with the flow…). Reader! Hear the truth of my words! I had a strong sense of foreboding and a feeling of impending DOOM right after the first few pages and I f More...
Dec 05, 2010
Cheryl
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Jaclyn Moriarty is a genius, and this culmination of her Ashbury/Brookfield books is eight kinds of brilliant. It's:
1. A ghost story.
2. A Gothic pastiche.
3. A culmination of the lives of all these characters and relationships readers have loved since at least THE YEAR OF SECRET ASSIGNMENTS. (Seb and Lydia are broken up at the beginning of this book! If you've read YOSA, then undoubtedly you just slapped your hand to your chest and cried out "Oh no!" in horror at thi More...
1. A ghost story.
2. A Gothic pastiche.
3. A culmination of the lives of all these characters and relationships readers have loved since at least THE YEAR OF SECRET ASSIGNMENTS. (Seb and Lydia are broken up at the beginning of this book! If you've read YOSA, then undoubtedly you just slapped your hand to your chest and cried out "Oh no!" in horror at thi More...
Dec 03, 2010
Evan
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Another Moriarty blows my mind book. I'm not really sure how to describe it without giving too much away, but it's part genre satire, part character study, part ghost story. Moriarty's conceit of how she structures her books continue to amaze me, especially in how different forms of the epistle novel compare to each other.
TGoAH comes nowhere near the transcendent bliss of Feeling Sorry For Celia, but is a very nice companion to The Year of Secret Assignments that drives its charact More...
TGoAH comes nowhere near the transcendent bliss of Feeling Sorry For Celia, but is a very nice companion to The Year of Secret Assignments that drives its charact More...
Oct 28, 2010
K
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It didn’t seem so at first, but this was a worthwhile read. (Of course it was going to be, Jaclyn Moriarty is one of my to-buy authors. I wasn’t too worried.)
The beginning was a bit disheartening. I didn’t feel drawn into the story until after the 100 page mark. The series once again takes a new route, this time one with ghosts. It’s the final year for the Ashbury students and their HSC English exams and assignments on gothic fiction make up almost the entirety of the book. Emily’s More...
The beginning was a bit disheartening. I didn’t feel drawn into the story until after the 100 page mark. The series once again takes a new route, this time one with ghosts. It’s the final year for the Ashbury students and their HSC English exams and assignments on gothic fiction make up almost the entirety of the book. Emily’s More...
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Sep 11, 2010
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Before you begin reading The Ghosts of Ashbury High, put all those expectations you may have about how a book is written on a shelf somewhere. You can pick them up later when you’re back to reading regular books.
Good. Now that that’s done, I can tell you about Jaclyn Moriarty and the Ashbury High books (Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Year of Secret Assignments, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie). These four books aren’t sequels, but they do revolve around the same high school and involve cha More...
Good. Now that that’s done, I can tell you about Jaclyn Moriarty and the Ashbury High books (Feeling Sorry for Celia, The Year of Secret Assignments, The Murder of Bindy Mackenzie). These four books aren’t sequels, but they do revolve around the same high school and involve cha More...
Jul 15, 2010
Jean
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Amelia and Riley have transferred to Ashbury for their final year of school, and everyone is completely obsessed with them. Glamorous, talented and totally devoted to one another, the two of them drift through school in their own world. But there’s more to the couple than meets the eye – they have secrets. And some of them are dangerous to share. As Riley starts to lose his grip on Amelia, the repercussions affect everyone around them.
A spellbinding story about ghosts, secrets, madne More...
A spellbinding story about ghosts, secrets, madne More...
Jul 12, 2010
Michelle
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Riley and Amelia have been a couple since they were fourteen years old. They are mysterious and beautiful and immediately cause a stir upon their arrival as Year 12 scholarship students at the exclusive private school in Castle Hill, Australia, Ashbury High. No one seems to know anything about these two, but everyone is noticing them and wants to be noticed by them. Even best friends Emily, Lydia, and Cassie. Emily, resident Drama Queen, quickly becomes obsessed with all things Riley and Amelia
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Jul 03, 2010
Rachael
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Amelia and Riley are new students at Ashbury High, and their appearance there changes everything. Everyone is talking about them, but few know anything about them. They rarely show up for school but Amelia breaks all the school’s swimming records. They smile politely when others talk to them but rarely say a word back. They’re an enigma that everyone at Ashbury High wants to solve, including best friends Lydia, Cassie, and particularly Emily. Emily has become nothing short of obsessed with Ameli
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Jun 18, 2010
Jennifer
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The Good Stuff
The note at the beginning helps clarify what is going on in the story, I think I would have been really lost if I hadn't read that
Loved the gothic touches to the story
Outstanding dialogue that makes you laugh your butt off at times
The character of Tobias is so loveable and fun and introspective
The scene between the ghost and is brilliantly funny!
Descriptions makes the story and the people feel so real
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The note at the beginning helps clarify what is going on in the story, I think I would have been really lost if I hadn't read that
Loved the gothic touches to the story
Outstanding dialogue that makes you laugh your butt off at times
The character of Tobias is so loveable and fun and introspective
The scene between the ghost and is brilliantly funny!
Descriptions makes the story and the people feel so real
The chapter on the history More...
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Apr 25, 2010
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Jan 03, 2010
Larissa
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The final year of high school is a year full of changes, messing about, dreaming of the future, farewells, and of cause exams. But at Ashbury High, it is also a year full of ghosts. There are two new students attending Ashbury High this year, Amelia and Riley, and there is something very different about them, but no one can quite guess what...
Amelia and Riley are hiding a secret, actually they are hiding more then one secret, but the secret that brought them to Ashbury High for their f More...
Amelia and Riley are hiding a secret, actually they are hiding more then one secret, but the secret that brought them to Ashbury High for their f More...
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Nov 14, 2009
Steph
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I absolutely loved Jaclyn Moriarty's previous novels, and Dreaming of Amelia is no exception. I loved the format - told through memoirs written as part of the gothic fiction elective in the HSC English exam from multiple viewpoints of Year Twelve students at Ashbury High. I love that it's a companion novel to a few of Moriarty's previous titles including Finding Cassie Crazy - I love revisiting all the same characters.
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Nov 06, 2009
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Aug 02, 2011
Rose
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I had trouble getting into the book at first, but after about fifty pages, I couldn’t stop.
From the title, I assumed the book would include ghosts, as in, real ghosts. I figured Amelia and Riley were the ghosts, not only because it seemed that that was what the author was implying, but also because Riley said that “The first time I saw her, I knew she was a ghost.” So, Amelia’s a ghost and they fall in love and at some point in time Riley becomes a ghost, too. Wrong. They’re both regu More...
From the title, I assumed the book would include ghosts, as in, real ghosts. I figured Amelia and Riley were the ghosts, not only because it seemed that that was what the author was implying, but also because Riley said that “The first time I saw her, I knew she was a ghost.” So, Amelia’s a ghost and they fall in love and at some point in time Riley becomes a ghost, too. Wrong. They’re both regu More...
Nov 21, 2010
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As with other Moriarty works, The Ghosts of Ashbury High starts out extremely bewildering, but at the end, you knock yourself on the side of the head and say "of course, why didn't I put two and two together?". Amelia and Riley won scholarships to the prestigious Ashbury High, even though their track record is not so stellar. They are gifted swimmers, actors, musicians, and excel at essay writing. Will they assimilate into the school effortlessly, or live on the fringe?
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Jan 08, 2012
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The year begins with the introduction of Amelia and Riley, two scholarship students from Brookfield High, to Ashbury High and within weeks, everyone is obsessed with them. Dressing differently, speaking more intelligently, trying their hardest to be interesting--the student body does a lot of things in their attempts to break into Riley and Amelia's secret world. Meanwhile, best friends Emily, Cassie, and Lydia are trying to make it through the More...
The year begins with the introduction of Amelia and Riley, two scholarship students from Brookfield High, to Ashbury High and within weeks, everyone is obsessed with them. Dressing differently, speaking more intelligently, trying their hardest to be interesting--the student body does a lot of things in their attempts to break into Riley and Amelia's secret world. Meanwhile, best friends Emily, Cassie, and Lydia are trying to make it through the More...
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Aug 25, 2010
Michelle
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I am vacillating. A part of me wants to give this five stars for the genius of the individual voices and mode of story telling. Another part of me wants to give this three stars because of its slow pacing. HMMMM...decisions.
The story of a ghost that haunts Ashbury High serves as the backdrop for the lives of six of the schools graduating seniors (or year 12 students, since this is set in Australia). The six students lives cross and then uncross and then cross again as friendship, More...
The story of a ghost that haunts Ashbury High serves as the backdrop for the lives of six of the schools graduating seniors (or year 12 students, since this is set in Australia). The six students lives cross and then uncross and then cross again as friendship, More...
Mar 10, 2010
Rachel
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I've been an avid fan of Jaclyn Moriarty since I read her first novel, Feeling Sorry for Celia, when I was thirteen. I've always liked the epistolary style of writing and Moriarty is one of the few authors who can pull this off successfully, in my opinion. "Dreaming of Amelia" is a particularly unique version of this style of story-telling in that the majority of it is written in the form of an English exam. Although this is intersperced with emails, blog posts and letters, for the mos
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Nov 23, 2010
Amy
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I'm a little torn with this book. Of course, it's full of the wit, fascinating characterisations and unique text types which I've come to expect and thoroughly enjoy in Jaclyn's writing. I'm quite confident that I'll never read a book by Jaclyn which does't make me giggle, and vividly remind me of people in my own life remarkably similar to these seemingly fictional (although all too real to me!) characters.
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