I am finally done with my book that I have blogged about for
like 5 months (it's pretty pathetic). For one of my last post of the book I
want to do a review. I picked up the book originally because I read another
book by the same author that was fantastic. It is call Between Shades of
Grey and it is awesome. Read it. Anyway that is why I started it and I have
been let down a bit. It wasn't as good as Between Shades of Grey. I
don't think it was depressing enough. I don't know why but I really like
depressing books which is a problem because I am going to try to read a funny
one next to broaden my genre's. Okay, back to my current book.
It is about a girl named Jo Moraine and her not normal teenage life in a 1950's New Orleans. Most 19 year olds are off to college and planning her life but Jo was working at a bookstore and cleaning a cathouse where her prostitute mother resided. Her life was then changed when a visitor from Tennessee came to the book shop. He wasn't even that special. He came in, talked for like a minute, bought a boring book, and then left. Then he died. Sorry, spoiler alert. Its not that important anyway. Jo was sad when she found out he died. She had really deep thoughts. So that was the end of that for a while.
For the next 20 or so pages she really didn't do anything. She fought with her mom about some guy named Cincinnati that her mom wanted to run away with who was supposedly awful. Though you can't make you own decision on Cincinnati because he is in the book for probably 5 pages. You here hype about him like, "It had been two years since the incident. He hadn't been back to the quarter since and no one missed him" (Sepetys11). You here all this hype and he is in the book for probably 3 whole sentences. I have probably said more about him then the book has in this one post. So she did that and cleaned a brothel. It was a pretty boring start.
Then another girl came to the bookstore and they became instant "besties" as they would say and her new friend invited her to a party. She, unlike Jo went to a good college in the North East. Jo met her friend’s uncle there who was a typical snob. Take note of that, it is important later. So now Jo wanted to go to college now. She is so needy. So now she had that dream and she had the grades but no one important enough to write a recommendation letter. Oh yeah, she also found that dead guy's watch (who came in the book shop, yeah that guy) under her mom's bed and her mom ran off with a junk guy because she has such a good profession. So the Jo caught her new besties uncle at the brothel and then decided to blackmail him for a recommendation letter. She isn't the nicest of girls.
Long story short she wrote the recommendation letter on his stationary, the guy who owned the book store she worked at went crazy, the uncle of her bestie hit on her, and that’s about it. It was a pretty boring book with not very many, no let me rephrase, no plot twists, and not many surprises. I sort of enjoyed when I read it but it got boring by the end. My recommendation is skip it and that's about it. I give it 2.5 out of 5 stars.
It is about a girl named Jo Moraine and her not normal teenage life in a 1950's New Orleans. Most 19 year olds are off to college and planning her life but Jo was working at a bookstore and cleaning a cathouse where her prostitute mother resided. Her life was then changed when a visitor from Tennessee came to the book shop. He wasn't even that special. He came in, talked for like a minute, bought a boring book, and then left. Then he died. Sorry, spoiler alert. Its not that important anyway. Jo was sad when she found out he died. She had really deep thoughts. So that was the end of that for a while.
For the next 20 or so pages she really didn't do anything. She fought with her mom about some guy named Cincinnati that her mom wanted to run away with who was supposedly awful. Though you can't make you own decision on Cincinnati because he is in the book for probably 5 pages. You here hype about him like, "It had been two years since the incident. He hadn't been back to the quarter since and no one missed him" (Sepetys11). You here all this hype and he is in the book for probably 3 whole sentences. I have probably said more about him then the book has in this one post. So she did that and cleaned a brothel. It was a pretty boring start.
Then another girl came to the bookstore and they became instant "besties" as they would say and her new friend invited her to a party. She, unlike Jo went to a good college in the North East. Jo met her friend’s uncle there who was a typical snob. Take note of that, it is important later. So now Jo wanted to go to college now. She is so needy. So now she had that dream and she had the grades but no one important enough to write a recommendation letter. Oh yeah, she also found that dead guy's watch (who came in the book shop, yeah that guy) under her mom's bed and her mom ran off with a junk guy because she has such a good profession. So the Jo caught her new besties uncle at the brothel and then decided to blackmail him for a recommendation letter. She isn't the nicest of girls.
Long story short she wrote the recommendation letter on his stationary, the guy who owned the book store she worked at went crazy, the uncle of her bestie hit on her, and that’s about it. It was a pretty boring book with not very many, no let me rephrase, no plot twists, and not many surprises. I sort of enjoyed when I read it but it got boring by the end. My recommendation is skip it and that's about it. I give it 2.5 out of 5 stars.
Great use of photographs to spice up the post.
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