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Book Review #3 (?)
6:23 PM April 16, 2007

My Summer Read #1: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (Bk6)

One of the books in the series that I liked the most! :D After getting a bit disheartened with the other books, I can definitely say that my interest has been reignited, and I'm definitely looking forward to the 7th book. AAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH~

My Summer Read #2: Fallen Angels by Tracy Chevalier

It was definitely one of the saddest books I've ever read. I swear I think I almost shed a few tears when I was telling France about the story. There's just something harshly honest about the book and how it portrayed life. Where some people never find contentment no matter what, where some people never get to repent for their mistakes or even learn how much they ruined another's life with their selfishness, where sometimes the only lesson you learn is giving and growing up, where you just wait all your life for something and in the end you're just forced to give up, it was depressing. T_T

Unlike the usual books where there is redemption for the erring character, where good people eventually end up with a good life in the end and all that, this book pretty much mirrors life and the reality that many things end up bad. 0_0 There were deaths, hopeless lives, ruined lives, extremely high levels of heartbreaking disappointment, etc. Oh life~

Despite it all though, I quite liked the book. :) It was written from multiple perspectives, so you see parts of the story as seen by different characters, and know parts of the tale that only a few know. It's interesting. It spans a decade, and starts when the children of the lead characters are 5 and ends with a shift in the lead characters from the parents to the now 15 year old kids. I got quite attached to the children, which may have helped spark my enthusiasm to continue reading despite the depressing flow of the story. And it was actually an easy read. It was dissected by the multiple points of view structure, which somehow helped make the book move faster. Bianca actually finished the book in a day, and I finished it in 3 days, which is really impressive for me, since its not even a very thin book. :P

come fly ~ gen