Authors - Maureen Johnson, John Green, Lauren Myracle
Picking up this book was a consequence of being a John Green fan, and the sad part is, I least liked his part (the second part of the book). Here is the short review:
Genre - Young-Adult
No. of Pages - 354
Year of Publication - 2008
Rating - ❤️❤️
Rating - ❤️❤️
This book is a triple-trouble. It is divided into three parts, actually three stories. The first part is written by Maureen Johnson, second part by John Green and third by Lauren Myracle.
Picking up this book was a consequence of being a John Green fan, and the sad part is, I least liked his part (the second part of the book). Here is the short review:
First Part - OK
Second part - Kind of OK
Third Part - OK
The first story is about a girl named Jubilee, yes that's right. And I couldn't understand why was there so much of fuss about her name throughout the book.
Jubilee has to embark an unplanned journey to Florida when her parents are jailed for some riot at some stupid Flobie showroom, and she is bound to go because she has no other option. The train she boards stops at Gracetown and she can't go any forward because of the blizzard. Bored?
In the second part, three friends go on a Twister mission to Waffle House which is too far to go in such weather conditions, with snow banks all around. BUT they go, just for some stupid food cravings and to spend their Christmas with a bunch of uninterested cheerleaders. OK, just one more to go.
The third part opens, a girl named Addie is coping with her breakup and in the process of doing so, she dyes her hair pink and calls her friends to come over and give her some sympathy. Oh God.
I was so bored. Nothing eventful happened in the whole book. I was looking for something interesting, something that would grab my interest and plunge it till the end but no. I would say, Paper Towns was much better than this book.
The first story is about a girl named Jubilee, yes that's right. And I couldn't understand why was there so much of fuss about her name throughout the book.
Jubilee has to embark an unplanned journey to Florida when her parents are jailed for some riot at some stupid Flobie showroom, and she is bound to go because she has no other option. The train she boards stops at Gracetown and she can't go any forward because of the blizzard. Bored?
In the second part, three friends go on a Twister mission to Waffle House which is too far to go in such weather conditions, with snow banks all around. BUT they go, just for some stupid food cravings and to spend their Christmas with a bunch of uninterested cheerleaders. OK, just one more to go.
The third part opens, a girl named Addie is coping with her breakup and in the process of doing so, she dyes her hair pink and calls her friends to come over and give her some sympathy. Oh God.
I was so bored. Nothing eventful happened in the whole book. I was looking for something interesting, something that would grab my interest and plunge it till the end but no. I would say, Paper Towns was much better than this book.
Precisely, I think this wasn't my kind of book, and probably that is the reason why I didn't like it. The sole thing that I liked in this book was the Christmasy feeling, the enthusiasm and ecstatic frenzy that hung all over the book.
The blurb says "As the three stories collide, strangers cross paths and romance blossoms with heart-warming consequences." OK, I wanted something like that to happen, desperately, as I reached the end. But the irony is, I knew what is going to happen.
There wasn't any surprise element. I knew HOW the "stories would collide".
It was another John Green experiment, looking forward to the next one.
*Braced up!*
Review by Bhumika Singh (Blog Author)
Other books by John Green:
The Fault In Our Stars
Paper Towns
The blurb says "As the three stories collide, strangers cross paths and romance blossoms with heart-warming consequences." OK, I wanted something like that to happen, desperately, as I reached the end. But the irony is, I knew what is going to happen.
There wasn't any surprise element. I knew HOW the "stories would collide".
It was another John Green experiment, looking forward to the next one.
*Braced up!*
Review by Bhumika Singh (Blog Author)
Other books by John Green:
The Fault In Our Stars
Paper Towns
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