Friday, 16 April 2010

13 Little Blue Envelopes - Maureen Johnson

Well this was a lovely surprise and a well written jovial book.

I read it all yesterday in a few hours while James played Pokémon.

Ginny's way of 'writing' (as she was the narrator) was delightfully sweet and each character was described in such a way that you could picture them but still create parts of them yourself rather than the over analysis of Meyer's fruit and repetitive character descriptions.

One thing I found perplexing was Ginny's lack of experience of some aspects of life, I know it's strange to suddenly be in another country and have to cope with their money but other scenes showed her even more bamboozled than I think she should have been.

Despite that minor flaw I thoroughly enjoyed her adventure and the beautiful conclusion. Although I do have to say that MJ doesn't give a full conclusion to all storylines. I've heard that this is the way she always writes but this time I'm glad because it makes me want to read the sequel much more!

4/5!

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