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Letters From the Inside
by John Marsden
by John Marsden
Here are the issues I had with this book:
-The two main characters have virtually indistinct voices, and similar enough situations that it's confusing trying to remember who's talking. One is supposed to be quiet and shy but since they're pen pals, the author chose to make her write...shyly...It comes off as weird and phony.
-The book is very eighties--not that that's a bad thing. But the piece isn't period enough to be historical fiction, and if you're not reading closely, or if you're a teen leafing through it, the story sounds terribly Amish, with almost no technology used and no explanation given as to why. The girls write letters even though they could presumably talk on the phone, but no other option for communication is ever discussed which seems odd for today's teens. Instead of being an interesting book that happens to be set in the eighties, these characters feel dated and obsolete.
-There is an obvious 'this girl is hiding something' storyline, but it's too common and vague of an issue to keep me reading. The characters aren't interesting enough to me to want to keep reading, and their secrets don't really matter to me since I never cared about them as characters.
Instead, I suggest: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Bad by Jean Ferris
-The two main characters have virtually indistinct voices, and similar enough situations that it's confusing trying to remember who's talking. One is supposed to be quiet and shy but since they're pen pals, the author chose to make her write...shyly...It comes off as weird and phony.
-The book is very eighties--not that that's a bad thing. But the piece isn't period enough to be historical fiction, and if you're not reading closely, or if you're a teen leafing through it, the story sounds terribly Amish, with almost no technology used and no explanation given as to why. The girls write letters even though they could presumably talk on the phone, but no other option for communication is ever discussed which seems odd for today's teens. Instead of being an interesting book that happens to be set in the eighties, these characters feel dated and obsolete.
-There is an obvious 'this girl is hiding something' storyline, but it's too common and vague of an issue to keep me reading. The characters aren't interesting enough to me to want to keep reading, and their secrets don't really matter to me since I never cared about them as characters.
Instead, I suggest: The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky, Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson, Monster by Walter Dean Myers, Bad by Jean Ferris
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most people are not getting the book is a very dark and chilling book tracey starts getting these dreams of guns and knives and steve mandys brother is into that stuff and tracy says it a blood bath and it makes her worry about mandy KNOCK KNOCK !mandy is dead and steve killed her and remember with the soda steve say youll see youll see the reason nobody took over is beacuse he killed there whole family how can you be so blind and theres a book called marsden on marsden that sums it up on amazon
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