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Oct 11, 2011

Saniya rated it:

Okay. I admit. I was freaking confused after I read this book. Really, REALLY confused. (If you are confused too, I have some answers written below)

Why I read this book:
(1) Because of the cover..... Blah! You know me! xD
(2) I found this plot, somehow, interesting, months ago.
(3) My friend gave this book for me to read. THANK-YOU! (:

Lets be honest now, shall we? I didn't love this book... *awkward silence* Yes, I didn't, I just didn't.
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Jan 31, 2012

Miss rated it:

Sad. Confusing. Heartbreaking. Shocking. Emotional. Perfect.

It has lot of swearing, drinking, self-harming and sex (including teen pregnancy and abortion).

The story is told from a first person point of view from Grace. She is in self destruct mode. She has so many emotions that she just doesn't know how to deal with and this shows in the way she acts. In many ways she comes across as a normal teen - she seems friendly and outgoing and is doing well at school, but this More...

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Aug 24, 2011

Charlie rated it:

Gritty – that’s the best way I can think of to sum up this novel. To be honest I was expecting it to be more psychological but actually it contains just the right amount of everything. Clarke gives you the basics of the difficult issues but doesn’t go into too much detail, therefore making it a little easier for people who might’ve shied away otherwise. There are a few issues covered in the book, not so many as to make it confusing, and each subplot and character has been given a lot of thought. More...

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Jan 14, 2012

Aimee Liam rated it:

I really like this book, more than I thought I would. I liked the begging because it was mysterious and that kept me reading it. I just coudn't stop, because I was so interested who's Ethan, how did she got there, and her telling about her past. I liked it was all so linked together.
I didn't really liked Grace at first, as a character she didn't seem all that depressed/suicidal, and then her jokes, she avoids problems.. But then I started to like her, because I've got to know her better; More...

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Apr 11, 2011

Lamia rated it:

This book. Ugh. Where do I start?

First off, I very strongly dislike Grace, the narrator. I didn't really like her at the beginning (she whined too much for my taste), and it got worse as the story went on. I just don't understand how anyone could think she's a likeable character. I know teenagers can be mean and fickle, and I can forgive some selfishness and defensiveness, but this goes way beyond that. She's condescending, rash and tries to balance her insecurities by making other More...

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Nov 06, 2011

is mee... kissa rated it:

shit that was a good book. some people have shelved it under paranormal, but i don't think it is. i think that part is just all in her head <spoiler>although i did like Ethan. He was just her subconscious right?</spoiler>. so that is the best realistic fiction i've ever read. it's not exactly 5 stars, but it's pretty close. oh, and the cover is awesome too.

Right at the start, I knew this book wasn't going to be slow. Grace wakes up in a white room. an asylum-white room. a More...

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Oct 06, 2011

Rebecca rated it:

Wonderful book. Really thought-provoking and deals with so many issues; cutting, pregnancy, relationships, suicide. Sounds depressing, right? Wrong. Grace's voice is truly fascinating... She is funny and honest and at times I wanted to strangle her for being so naive. But she was realistically contradictory.. she had low self esteem sometimes, and at other times she was selfish and sexy, she just seemed so real.

Okay, so this wasn't a perfect book, but which book is? The whole 'kidnappe More...

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Mar 29, 2011

Brynne rated it:

Wow.
Just . . . wow.
If the cover doesn't want to make you pick this book up, then hopefully the premise will.
Entangled is about 17 year old Grace, who on the day attempting to commit suicide, meets a stranger at the park. And the next thing she knows is that she wakes up in a white room with pens, paper, and (a quote from the synopsis-sorry, I couldn't find any better words) "no clue how she got [t]here." So she writes and (sorry again) "is forced to remember eve More...

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Jan 04, 2011

Sarah rated it:

When Grace wakes up locked in a plain white room she has no idea how she got there. Held captive by the mysterious Ethan the only distraction she has is some pens and paper so she starts writing her story. As she writes about her friendship with Sal and falling in love with her boyfriend Nat we begin to unravel the mystery of how she ended up in the white room.

Entangled is a captivating and powerful debut and one that will take the reader on a roller coaster of emotions from laught More...

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Jul 05, 2011

Muphyn rated it:

I don't normally like these kinds of YA books but this one grabbed me and completely sucked me in. It's really quite well told and moves along nicely.

Grace isn't really my kind of girl... she gets drunk pretty much every night of the week, throws up, constant hangovers, lots of boys and sleeping around, swearing, drama left, right and centre, etc. etc. But underneath there's this incredible pain and hurt that's just so tangible and almost leaps off the page that my heart literally hu More...

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Dec 23, 2011

Samantha (Falling Books) rated it:

All night I've been thinking: 3stars? 4stars? 5Stars? How do I feel about this?

I originally gave this book 5 stars but after finding out the answers to all my questions i felt dissappointed..........i must say.....everything was predictable and well, i'm just really sad.......

I thought Nat was a great person but after reading the last few scenes....I felt sick and angry.....I'd fallen for him so bad and to find out that he wasn't the boy I thought he was......i don't wan More...

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Jan 15, 2012

Azure rated it:

The MC, Grace, is a bitch. Pure and simple. Every little thing someone says (that's not sugarcoated to death) she gets VERY defensive. She always has to snap back, be rude and an awful person. She knows she's a terrible person. She blames her upbringing for the way she's turned out: a mess. Excessively drinking, having sex (started at 14) and cutting. Her father died and her mother isn't really one. Okay, fine, I get it, but really? Did she need to turn out that bad? Her mother was hardly the wo More...

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Jan 07, 2012

♫Huneeya♥ rated it:

This book would have been two stars if it wasn't for the amazing ending. I mean the whole <spoier> Nat-Sal thing </spoiler> was completely predictable but I totally wasn't expecting the whole <spoiler> Ethan is just imaginary</spoiler> thing. I'll admit, when I finished the book I was like 'WHAT?! THAT'S THE END?! BUT THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE!!! <spoiler> I MEAN WHAT ABOUT ETHAN? AND HER BEING KIDNAPPED? HOW THE HELL IS SHE SUDDENLY IN HOSPITAL?! WHAT THE HELL?! More...

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Aug 18, 2011

Sya rated it:

At first glance, the plot of Entangled appears at first to be one kind of story before quietly changing into something completely different. When we meet protagonist Grace, she has been saved from killing herself by an attractively aloof stranger, Ethan. The thing is, Ethan seems to have saved her by...er...kidnapping her. As kidnappings go it hasn't been too traumatic. He's provided her with a clean, white room, regular servings of her favourite food and some paper and pens on which to writ More...

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Jul 03, 2011

Kousha rated it:

i loved this book. I thought that the character of Grace was told just perfectly. You could really bond with her and understand her pain completely. Normally for me a book where the heroine/ hero is self harming will normally just make me want to drop the book, because normally the characters end up coming across so over dramatic and pathetic, but i never felt that whilst i read Entangled. It sort of fit into the book, which i think is quite a hard thing to achieve, and you still could bond with More...

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Jun 26, 2011

Laura rated it:

I don't know what to say about this one. I read it in a night and couldn't put it down. I was desperately fixated by Grace's "tangled life" and wanted her to be able to wipe her slate clean. I empathised painfully with her. To an extent.

There was a lot about Grace that I didn't like. It seemed like in every scene she had a drink in her hand and she wasn't a pleasant drunk. Her recounted story about how she lost her virginity in a grotty park play-structure made me feel kind o More...

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Jun 01, 2011

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May 20, 2011

Larissa rated it:

Grace is impulsive, reckless, selfish and a flirt. Just your typical seventeen year old with a fiery temper and hair to match. She doesn't believe in turning down a drink or a kiss from a boy if he's not half bad looking, actually there isn't much she wont say no to, except her mum of course. But while on the outside Grace is doing her best to hide the hurt, on the inside she is desperately trying to hold on to the only two people who mean anything to her.

When Grace left home for the p More...

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Mar 29, 2011

Sam rated it:

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Mar 13, 2011

Becky rated it:

Entangled is an emotional journey. It is raw and tender and sad and funny and for me about the deep inner truth that lies inside all of us.

We enter Grace’s story on Day 3. She is sitting at a table and writing. Why? Because there is no other option. She is being held against her will. She is a prisoner within a crisp white room. A mysterious boy-practically-a-man named Ethan is keeping her locked up. He hasn’t hurt her yet but why else would he be keeping her there? Grace meets More...

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Feb 09, 2011

Rebecca rated it:

I really didn't want to like this book. Honestly. But I do. When I started reading it I hated Grace, she was the kind of girl that I would have avoided like the plague at school - she's an underage drinker who sleeps with anything that moves. But thinking back, that isn't fair to her. I found myself finding things that I liked about her, she's fiercely loyal to her best friend Sal, and she uses falling in love as a reason to start her life over. And I think this is what makes me like the book so More...

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Jan 09, 2011

Melanie rated it:

Wow, what can I say about Entangled?

Well it's a must read. It's hard going with the 'self harm' aspects which for many books I've read with sucicde, self harm etc this was well written. I wasn't left wondering why Grace cut herself, more with an understanding of it all.

I was a little dissapointed with the ending, for I wanted to know what happened in the end (I won't go into that here as I don't want to spoil it for others).

I also would liked to have seen more cha More...

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Oct 18, 2010

Amanda rated it:

It isn't often that I remark on book covers during book reviews (since I believe it is the contents of the book that are important) but in this case I really have to! The cover to Entangled is simply beautiful and I'm sure will have people reaching for the book from the shelf.

And this is the story that they will read when they do: Grace is a rather bolshy teenager with her fair share of problems. However, they seem to have faded into significance rather when she wakes up in a featurele More...

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Oct 03, 2010

Caroline rated it:

We begin the story with Grace, she is locked in a room and she doesn't know where she is and/or if she'll ever get out. That is the only information we are given about her. The first sentence propels us directly into the action wondering why Grace wanted to commit suicide in the first place and why has she now been kidnapped.
In her room, there is only a bed and a table with paper and pens. The only thing she can do is write, thus giving the reader an insight into her head. We go back in ti More...

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Aug 17, 2011

Yvo rated it:

Grace wacht alleine in einem Raum auf. Alles ist weiß, das Bett, die Bettbezüge, der Stuhl und der Tisch. Sie kann sich nichts erinnern. Auf dem Tisch liegen nur Papier und Stifte. Warum ist sie hier? Was ist passiert?

Langsam erinnert sie sich daran, dass sie sich umbringen wollte und Ethan sie entführt hat, bevor sie es tun konnte. Aber warum? Und warum hat er ihr noch nichts getan? Was hat er mitihr vor und warum will sie sich umbringen?

Ich hatte absolut keine Erwartungen More...

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Mar 14, 2011

Colleen rated it:

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Feb 04, 2011

Jessie rated it:

I didn't really know what to expect when I began Entangled. Why is Grace in a white room with writing as the only thing she can do? Who is this Ethan that has kidnapped her? Why would he kidnap her in to begin with? All of these questions bugged me for most of the book, then all of a sudden it all started to make sense. When I started I didn't really know if I would enjoy a book about a girl stuck in a room only allowed to write, I didn't know if there would be enough story to keep me readi More...

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Nov 04, 2011

Alipeli rated it:

Hlavní postavou této novely je Grace, která se probudí v pokoji, do kterého neví, jak se tam dostala. Poslední na co si dokáže vzpomenout je, že šla do místního parku spáchat sebevraždu. V pokoji je pouze postel, stůl a veliký štos papírů s tužkou. Vše je pouze v bílé barvě. Jejím věznitele v pokoji je Ethan, který ji nosí stále jídlo a chce po ní, aby psala. Takže Grace začne psát, co jí dovedlo k tomu, aby spáchala sebevraždu. Popisuje přátelství mezi ní a její nejlepší kamarádkou Sal, vztah s More...

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Jun 29, 2011

Lisa rated it:

I expected a bit more from this book. The synopsis sounded so interesting.

I guess my problem was I pretty much knew what was going on less than halfway through the book and had to read through over 200 pages knowing where it was all leading. That can be pretty annoying.
The main character, Grace, was not exactly someone you could really gain anything from. It's nice to see a character grow or change in some way but I didn't get that with Grace. There was the slightest change in h More...

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Jan 08, 2012

Mikaela rated it:

This book was amazing. It was one of those stories that you really had to THINK about. The authour didn't just give you all the answers to the riddles, she gave you the information you needed and just let you figure out the rest.

The characters were brilliant and had actual personalities (Seriously, you may think that isn't something to be proud of, but after the string of disastrous books I've read, let me tell you that it really IS!)

A definite recommend read!

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