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Lädt ... Awakevon Natasha Preston
   Books Read in 2015 (797) Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch.  VanessaMarieBooks | Dec 10, 2023 |   The cover and blurb caught my interest. It was slow and steady from the start. Felt like I was reading a Lifetime Movie, that this could have actually happened to someone to a point. The story takes place in the United Kingdom. While some parts were a little predictable, I enjoyed the story overall and would gladly read more if the author writes more for this story. (  ) lbrychic | Sep 9, 2023 | Michelle_PPDB | Mar 18, 2023 |  ) gail616 | Jul 17, 2019 |  ) liannecollins | Apr 18, 2019 |
 Slut-Shaming is NOT Okay… *1 star out of 5 Awake by: Natasha Preston Review by: Stacy Palm I know and understand that not every book is for every reader, and so I generally take it easy on an author and give them credit for having their own point of view of their work. However, in this case I feel it is my absolute duty to recommend to our readers to avoid this book. I’m a person that enjoys books that aren’t so happy with their endings, but what I’m not a fan of is promoting behavior that has no relevance to the story and enhances people’s beliefs that it may be okay to act in this certain negative way towards other people. The story is about a 16 year old girl who has no memory of her early youth basically falls madly in love with a strange new boy within an hour of meeting. Okay, I am raising two teens right now so I know their emotions can be strangely erratic and illogical, but to then start shunning your supposed best friends in order to spend time with this guy - not okay. What is more discouraging though, is that the main character’s best friend is consistently slut-shaming the main character and vice versa. I do not want my children ever to be in a position in their life where they would think that talking like this to another human being is okay. I feel horrible for this author because my fear is that this language and content is stemming from some experience in her past that she has brought into this book and it has no place for it in this work. I’m going to add here too, that within a couple pages I was questioning to myself what the big deal was with not remembering anything since the age of four. Had she not been able to remember anything from the age of 10 or even 8, it would have been more believable. There are not many people who could dredge up even one memory from before the age of four due to biology and growth development, but this is again an area that shows the author’s inexperience and lacking of research for the story. I read a post on the author’s website that she is attempting a 7-week novel (in which you write a 70,000 word novel in 7 weeks.) That’s an ambitious goal and one I would encourage to a seasoned writer, but may I sincerely recommend that Miss Preston take a more timely approach and really edit and screen the content she is putting out into the world and into the minds of some very young and impressionable people? Stories don’t have to be all rosy and cheery, but if you are going to use gritty and in many cases replusive behaviors in your work they need to have a creative relevance to the other content. I really dislike giving negative reviews, but in this case I had no choice. My hope is that the author is open to receiving some constructive criticism, finds a better editor, and focus energy on refining her talent rather than rushing to put out another piece of work like this book. Full Reviews Available: http://www.thebookendfamily.weebly.co...
Suspense.
Thriller.
Young Adult Fiction.
HTML: She's on the run from a past she can't remember in this thriller from Natasha Preston, the New York Times bestselling author of The Cellar and The Cabin! Scarlett Garner doesn't remember anything before the age of fourâ??until a car accident changes everything. She starts to remember pieces of a past that frighten her. A past her parents hid from her...and a secret that could get her killed. Don't miss the next heart-pounding thriller from Natasha Preston, You Will Be Mine, coming February 2018! Also by Natasha Preston: Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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This one definitely reads like a lifetime movie, but requires you to suspend too much belief. It's not realistic for her to obsess so much over memories she lost before the age of 4. Most people don't remember their childhood before the age of 4. That's about the age we are when we start to retain our memories.
This book is fast-paced and normally for mystery/thrillers that's a good thing, but a lot of this book focused on the romance between Scarlett and Noah, so having it be fast-paced did not work in this case. It turns the romance into instalove and again we have to suspend our belief and buy the fact that Noah fell so deeply in love, he turned his back on his family, community, and all the beliefs he's held onto for 17 years, because of his love for Scarlett (who he's only known for a few weeks/months).
The plot is very predictable, none of the "twists" in here are surprising. The writing, however, is very easy to get into, and despite the predictability, something about Preston's writing kept me wanting to turn the pages.
The characters do need some work though, especially Noah. He was too "perfect" in the beginning, at least from Scarlett's POV, once we get to Noah's POV we see him in a completely different way and we can immediately tell how much of a creep he is.
Overall, it was OK, but I thought The Cellar was a little bit better than this one. (