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Emotionaler YA Roman

buechertraumzeiten aus Aachen am 23.02.2021
Bewertungsnummer: 1457152
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

Es war ein wunderschöner und gefühlvoller YA Roman, welcher nur so vor Emotionen trieft und zeitgleich so einzigartig und zeitgenössisch ist, wie er nur sein könnte. Acevedo behandelt geschickt Themen wie, Verlust, Trauer und Veränderung. Das Setting zwischen NYC und der Dominikanischen Republik hat mir sehr gut gefallen und ebenso die Tiefe, die Acevedo den beiden Protagonistinnen gab, um ihre Emotionen zu entdecken und wie eine Person mit vielen Fehlern, trotzdem alles für einen Menschen bedeuten kann. Ich hätte mir gewünscht, wenn der Anfang des Buches einen nicht ganz so langsamen Einstieg gehabt hätte und auch, dass das Ende nicht so schnell aufgeklärt wird.

Worth the hype!

Stephanie aus Othmarsingen am 02.02.2023
Bewertungsnummer: 1871738
Bewertet: Buch (Taschenbuch)

I went into this story with as little expectation as possible - seeing, as this book received so much praise - and I wasn’t dissappointed. It’s a story about family, betrayal, odds and love. Spun in a way that is both a commentary on life as it can actually look like, ugly and greedy, yet also wonderous and worth living, and what it’s hoped to look like. What the author excelled at, in my opinion, is authenticity. Life is seldom split in black and white. There’s mostly always different shades of grey we have to 'deal with', and she depicted this so gracefully and graciously. To have a father who has another wife and child somewhere else can’t be easy. The fact that he loved both of his daughters the same and maybe even loved both of his wifes doesn’t make his adultery right. But those two things can co-exist. He can have been a good father to both of the girls and yet not a very good husband. It’s the thoughts and questions this book kicked off that made it so enjoyable. This, and the engaging way it was written in. The suspensefulness the story was told in was something I hadn’t anticipated at all, but loved even more for it. I don’t want to give away too much which is why I’ll leave it at that, but I’d recommend this book to anyone who likes to grapple with moral questions, and who enjoys authentic, powerful and climactic writing.