Comments on: Best of 2009 – Part 1 http://emmamaree.com/personal-life/best-of-2009-part-1/#utm_source=feed&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=feed YA Writer, Tech Support Girl & Tea Addict Wed, 16 May 2012 20:18:20 +0000 hourly 1 By: E.Maree http://emmamaree.com/personal-life/best-of-2009-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-48 E.Maree Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:51:24 +0000 http://www.used-goods.net/forbidden_knowledge/?p=494#comment-48 To each their own, B. :) I can't fault your criticism - the biology class thing is getting cliche (which is a bit weird), and I mentioned above being annoyed at the various occurences of 'Angel'. As far as character dynamics go though, it kept me interested - I found the interactions were a lot more vibrant than a lot of what's going on in YA right now. Honestly though, this year was a pick of the best of a very similar crop of YA novels that have been shoved my way for review thanks to the Twilight trend. I'm going to take a wild guesss and say you've been able to read a better variety of stuff. Any recommendations for your own book of '09? To each their own, B. :) I can’t fault your criticism – the biology class thing is getting cliche (which is a bit weird), and I mentioned above being annoyed at the various occurences of ‘Angel’.
As far as character dynamics go though, it kept me interested – I found the interactions were a lot more vibrant than a lot of what’s going on in YA right now.

Honestly though, this year was a pick of the best of a very similar crop of YA novels that have been shoved my way for review thanks to the Twilight trend.

I’m going to take a wild guesss and say you’ve been able to read a better variety of stuff. Any recommendations for your own book of ’09?

]]> By: E.Maree http://emmamaree.com/personal-life/best-of-2009-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-255 E.Maree Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:51:00 +0000 http://www.used-goods.net/forbidden_knowledge/?p=494#comment-255 To each their own, B. :) I can't fault your criticism - the biology class thing is getting cliche (which is a bit weird), and I mentioned above being annoyed at the various occurences of 'Angel'. As far as character dynamics go though, it kept me interested - I found the interactions were a lot more vibrant than a lot of what's going on in YA right now. Honestly though, this year was a pick of the best of a very similar crop of YA novels that have been shoved my way for review thanks to the Twilight trend. I'm going to take a wild guesss and say you've been able to read a better variety of stuff. Any recommendations for your own book of '09? To each their own, B. :) I can’t fault your criticism – the biology class thing is getting cliche (which is a bit weird), and I mentioned above being annoyed at the various occurences of ‘Angel’.
As far as character dynamics go though, it kept me interested – I found the interactions were a lot more vibrant than a lot of what’s going on in YA right now.

Honestly though, this year was a pick of the best of a very similar crop of YA novels that have been shoved my way for review thanks to the Twilight trend.

I’m going to take a wild guesss and say you’ve been able to read a better variety of stuff. Any recommendations for your own book of ’09?

]]> By: B http://emmamaree.com/personal-life/best-of-2009-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-47 B Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:28:21 +0000 http://www.used-goods.net/forbidden_knowledge/?p=494#comment-47 Are you kidding me? I started to read the book and got around 150 pages in and all that had happened was the girl sitting in her biol class, with - surprise surprise - a mean, devastatingly good looking boy. Then they flirt, she gets flustered, class ends, she goes home to think about him a lot and/or stalk him, and then repeat. I tried to like it, I really did. But it had no substance, it was one giant cliché (I practically laughed out loud when he started calling her Angel. Not to mention when I read he rode a motorbike) and the writing style itself just wasn't compelling enough to keep me going. Are you kidding me? I started to read the book and got around 150 pages in and all that had happened was the girl sitting in her biol class, with – surprise surprise – a mean, devastatingly good looking boy. Then they flirt, she gets flustered, class ends, she goes home to think about him a lot and/or stalk him, and then repeat. I tried to like it, I really did. But it had no substance, it was one giant cliché (I practically laughed out loud when he started calling her Angel. Not to mention when I read he rode a motorbike) and the writing style itself just wasn’t compelling enough to keep me going.

]]> By: B http://emmamaree.com/personal-life/best-of-2009-part-1/comment-page-1/#comment-254 B Wed, 20 Jan 2010 11:28:00 +0000 http://www.used-goods.net/forbidden_knowledge/?p=494#comment-254 Are you kidding me? I started to read the book and got around 150 pages in and all that had happened was the girl sitting in her biol class, with - surprise surprise - a mean, devastatingly good looking boy. Then they flirt, she gets flustered, class ends, she goes home to think about him a lot and/or stalk him, and then repeat. I tried to like it, I really did. But it had no substance, it was one giant cliché (I practically laughed out loud when he started calling her Angel. Not to mention when I read he rode a motorbike) and the writing style itself just wasn't compelling enough to keep me going. Are you kidding me? I started to read the book and got around 150 pages in and all that had happened was the girl sitting in her biol class, with – surprise surprise – a mean, devastatingly good looking boy. Then they flirt, she gets flustered, class ends, she goes home to think about him a lot and/or stalk him, and then repeat. I tried to like it, I really did. But it had no substance, it was one giant cliché (I practically laughed out loud when he started calling her Angel. Not to mention when I read he rode a motorbike) and the writing style itself just wasn’t compelling enough to keep me going.

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