jane_kelsey's reviews
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Loved it! Twisted Alice in Wonderland, filled with sadness and betrayal. Loved it! Characters so well shaped and the story premise very good. Can't wait to read the next one. I don't even know what more to say, it's... Absolutely lovely!

When I first sent my eyes upon the book I didn’t know what to expect and it took my a while to get the courage to open and read it, but I was in for a treat. This book is great and I like Audrey Niffenegger’s prose.

This is more than a fantastic book where this man travels through past and future, this is a book about love and consequences. The time traveler's wife is a beautiful portrait of human life and the desperate act of living normal when things don’t go as planned.

Henry suffers from a illness called chrono-impairment which makes him a time traveler. He meets Claire when he’s around the age of 40 and she is only a child. At the beginning of the story though, we meet Claire when she’s 20 and Henry is 28, he’s working at the museum and he doesn’t have (yet) any memory of Claire, the woman that he will love and marry. This scene is very well crafted and immediately we fall into the maze of realities: past, present and future, all happened and happening.

Audrey knows how to give her characters life and make them into real people, with real problems into this fantastical context of time traveling. It’s both comical and tragical, a story that balances perfectly into this tangled mess of tenses. She writes and she writes well about characters that we care, about lives that are incoherently searching for some sort of normalcy.

I loved it and I recommend this dark, funny and twisted story; it’s a great read!

Nobody can expect a "Silhouette" to be the next best novel, but this one was actually okay and I knew in what I was getting in before.

There's no secret here: they meet, they're something coming between them, but they cannot resist the sexual attraction between them. This is the recipe and it was used for so many books that nothing feels like new anymore, but this one wasn't that bad; probably because I was set of reading some bad romance and I didn't want to poke my eyes out with Twilight or 50 Shades of gray.

Though I must say, Bobby's reason to disappear with the cash is hilarious. For someone who wrote 70 books (Sherryl Woods), she really was out of ideas for this one. I've got the feeling she improvised along the way. :))

Jenny Pox started amazing. I was wowed. Brilliant characters, scenes, writing. Then, it kind of faded away, lost in the story. I really hated Ashleigh, the writer created a very powerful villain here and it kinda took the spell from Jenny who mostly sat back and posed victim.

I liked the relationship Jenny - Seth; so different from what you usually find on ya books. I liked the fact that in the end they all had very much to loose. It felt real and heartbreaking. But it was way too long. A bit shorter and condensed would've been better in my opinion. Read the first half, then jump to the end and it's still gonna make a lot of sense. I truly loved this book when it started, but after a while it for sidetracked.

I really found interesting the powers of Jenny. Deadly powers that kept her aloof and on the side, instead of the usually teen angst found in the genre.

For the starters I really liked the ideas of this book being written in the guys pov in the setting of the Old South. Really captivating the way he sees stuff. Ethan Wate is the bookish type who hides his true form in front of the whole town by fear of being misjudged for being different. That's when he finds Lena, the girl of his dreams and everything changes, he embraces who he really is slowly.

The story is not bad, I liked it, but the fact that they're only 16, actually Lena was as the beginning 15, and they're destined to be in love and fight an evil Caster was a bit of a turn off and less believable. Then it really annoyed me is that they the writer tried to find all sorts of excuses so they would work in the mystery alone and try to uncover the secrets by themselves. And what's that all about with talking in each others thoughts? Really?

Lena's cousin is another stereotype. Hot, dark and gorgeous, with Siren abilities who pops out of nowhere to wreck havoc and do things her style. But mostly, it was Lena who annoyed the crap out of me. A loner, writing poetry obsessively, an outcast not only because people were mean and cruel, she's an outcast because she tries to hard.

I don't know, but there were good parts and bad parts in it. Sometimes I loved it, sometimes I wanted to gag and through my e-reader away.