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by | 19.1.2015 · 21:25

The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon

This book has been published first time in Great Britain in 1999, written by Stephen King. You might not know The girl who loved Tom Gordon but at least you should know King’s other books like Carrie, The Shining and Misery. By them King has been called ”King of horror” and it’s not a miracle. His skills to capture things in texts is unusual and unique.

The girl who loved Tom Gordon is a story of nine years old Trisha. She gets lost in the huge forest, when she tried to escape her mother and big brother’s fighting. After that she faced how cruel nature can be and began to believe that everything there was some kind of test to her. If she fight against the nature, she deserves to stay alive. If she doesn’t, she will never get out there. at time when hours and days was changing others, she started starving and seeing illusions. Her illusions about Tom Gordon (her favorite baseball player and ”heartthrob”) was crucial part of her tricky trip there while she tried survive by the mercy of nature.

The main character Trisha is a smart little girl, who won’t give up in bad situations. The story is told by her point of view and tells well how nine years old child could feel when they get lost. Panic, terror and a lot of crying could be something where many can identify with. But instead week, whining little girl, Trisha is really brave. She has learnt many things from her parents and books and she knows how to develop them.
Other characters was her divorced mother and father and her big brother. Shortly telling her mother tries always think what’s best for their children. With Trisha it works in some ways but with her brother not in any cases. Her Brother is teenager, who really don’t have many friends. His mother can’t understand why it’s so hard to him make new friendships and that’s mostly the reason why they keep fighting. But luckily both Trisha and her brother gets along with their dad. He is gentle and he knows how to talk to them. With Trisha and her father, they both have an enormous love with baseball.

Genre of the book is horror, but I really can’t find out which part of this book really filled that. I have read couple of books from Stephen King and I can swear that I have never been so scared when I have read others of that genre. King really is unbeatable horror writer but this book is far from his best ones.
The second genre is survival. Nine years old little girl in a huge forest, alone and lost. She faced many difficult situations, but she get over them. Personally I don’t believe it’s possible that so young girl knows that much than Trisha did about forests and nature – and not a word about that she could figure out some things all by herself! However book succeed to bring this genre well out.

Reading this book was quite slow and a bit frustrating, because in the first 100 pages there didn’t happened so much scary or exciting things. But like most King’s books, the start is always very describing and slowly going. The plot always gets more interesting and deeply after reading half of the story. That’s why people need to be patience while reading his books. Even this book didn’t please me so much, I will always say that King is one of my favorite author.

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The Hunger Games

The Hunger Games is a junior novel written by Suzanne Collins.It was published in 2008. This novel is the first part of her trilogy which following parts are catching fire and mockingjay. One of the most prevalent themes in The Hunger Games is survival and keeping your humanity and dignity as you try to survive. The book is about a 16-years-old Katniss Everdeen who lives in a state called Panem, in district twelve.

The hunger games is an annual event where each of the districts is selected by one girl and one boy. The selected 24 tributes will fight for their lives until death and the winner is the only survivor.

The main characters are Katniss Everdeen who lives in district 12 with her sister Primrose Everdeen and her mother, Gale who is Katniss’s bestfriend and her hunting partner, Peeta who is a baker’s son of district 12 and the one of the 24 tribute of the hunger games but he also loves Katniss.Then there is Rue who is form district 11 and becomes Katniss’s ally during the hunger games. There are other crucial characters too but they don’t make much difference.

The plot shortly. There is a reaping where the tributes are selected. The girl tribute of the district 12 is Primrose Everedeen but because she is Katniss’s 12-year-old little sister Katniss volunteer. It is a shock for Prim and their mom but Katniss promises that she will do anything to win the game. The other tribute of district 12 is Peeta Mellark. After they leave the district 12 to Capitol they practice for example the use of weapons and other survivor skills they will require. And then the game begins. All of the 24 tributes stand on a beam where they have to wait 60 seconds and after that everybody runs to the weapons and then in to the woods. Every time when someone dies there is a cannon shot. Some of the tributes make crowds so they don’t get killed so easily. At first Katniss is alone until she ally with Rue. When Rue dies there is a new rule which is that both tributes from the same district can be winners and the Katniss search for Peeta.

I liked the book a lot because it was so easy to read even though I didn’t understand every single word but it didn’t matter. It was very exciting although I had watched the movie already but the book had more information than the movie as usual. I recommend it to everyone who likes a lot of adventure.

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by | · 20:43

The Cuckoo’s Calling

When I first heard about this assignment I instantly thought I should read a book by J.K. Rowling. The Harry Potter series has always been near to my heart so I felt like reading an another novel by her. Originally I chose The Casual Vacancy but I changed my mind quite quickly as I got a new crime novel by this praised new author called Robert Galbraith for christmas. It was later revealed to me that the book was actually written by none other than J.K. Rowling under the Galbraith pseudonym. I was instanly in love.

The Cuckoo’s calling is the first part of a series about an English private investigator called Cormoran Strike. The thing that separates him of the general ”detective type” is the way he’s presented in the story. The usual kind of a private investigator is quite noble and aristocratic, such as Sherlock Holmes, but in this case the main character is kind-of vulnerable, worn-out and dirty. In addition to him being a little messy, having a poor sense of style, a bad hairdo and a lot of financial problems he has even lost his leg in a battle in the Afghan war. All this together and a little bit of irritation between his skin and the prostesis, plus a recently broken engagement with his girlfriend, gives a pretty good image of the character. He is teamed up with his temporary secretary Robin Ellacot, a 25-year-old newly engaged Yorkshire girl, who has recently moved to London since becoming engaged. She is very interested in assisting a detective and turns out quite clever and comptent for the job.

In the beginning of the novel Strike is hired by a lawyer, John Bristow, who wants Strike to take a closer look to the death of Lula Landry, his adopted sister. Landry was a very succesful supermodel who was considered to have committed a suicide by jumping off a balcony in the ”better” side of London. Bristow refuses to believe that his sister took her own life and wants Strike to investigate the case more thoroughly. At first Strike seems sceptical about the case as it has recieved huge media attention but as he dives deeper into the case he founds out very crucial things about the young model’s death. And as the plot thickens Strike has to interview several people from Lula Landry’s life including her friends, brother, uncle, bodyguard and personal driver. The more he digs in to the world of the supermodel the more complicated the plot seems to be. Depression, drugs, poor relationships, stressful job and a multi-million inheritance were on this poor model’s shoulders. No wonder it seems that she killed herself. And yet, Strike has to try to believe Bristow and find out if the death was actually a murder, even though his only motive seems to be the double salary he’s getting from Bristow, due to his financial problems.

The language of the book was quite typical English with a few exceptions of for example the Cornish accent of Cormoran Strike and the speech patterns of different characters in general. The way Galbraith/Rowling made the characters seem more realistic and authentic was also very impressive. I especially loved the little details in the speech of the characters. For example ”how do you do” changed into ”how d’you do” etc. Lovely isn’t it?

And now to the critical part. The one thing I found somehow annoying whilst reading was the fact that every interview seemed to follow the same kind of a pattern; the detective is located in a restaurant (or a bar) and the person to be interviewed arrives at the scene. The questions are usually about the night of the death or the day before. It almost felt like Rowling was trying to get rid of the Harry Potter -type of ”monotonous” storytelling and move on to more complex dialogues. Even though J.K. Rowling is one of my favorite authors I must say that I didn’t enjoy this book as much as I enjoyed her other works, but still the book was pretty addictive. For real it was easy to read 70 pages a day without getting bored or falling asleep. Trust me I’m a slow and a lazy reader.

For the first work of crime fiction by J.K. Rowling this book was well executed. Soon after publishing The Casual Vacancy there suddenly started to be a lot of fuss about her writing a crime novel. Now that she has done it under the pseudonym, that was later revealed, I think that it couldn’t have impacted the public better, at least from a profitable point of view. In this case Rowling was truly a master of surprise and totally baffled her readers with this brief but neat vanishing trick.

From the deadly fall off the blacony to the poor father-son relationship between Cormoran and his dad, the story was an engaging, unique and thrilling reading experience. It would’ve been almost excellent without these small annoying repetitions and patterns it followed (still very usual in crime fiction). Nonetheless it was a story well-told and to be honest I’m looking forward to reading the sequel. Marvellous work J.K. Rowling, marvellous work indeed.

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by | · 20:07

Under the Dome

So, I read the book Under the Dome from Stephen King. Stephen King is a well known novelist and he has always been my favorite author thanks to his unique way of capturing the moment, and this is how I knew I could finish this 1074 page monster in time. Under the Dome was published in 2009, so it’s a relatively new book from Mr. King.
The book tells a story of a small town, Chester’s Mill, getting isolated from the rest of the world by an invisible dome. Nothing seems to be able to destroy the dome, not missiles nor speeding trucks. The residents of Chester’s Mill are stuck inside with some tourists, trying to deal with having no electricity and no way of getting more food supplies. Town’s Second Selectman (Jim Rennie) is spreading chaos by doing pretty much everything a responsible human being wouldn’t do from murdering innocent people to manufacturing drugs. These irresponsible actions cause conflicts between Rennie and the protagonist (Dale Barbara) to the point where Barbara ends up getting himself on Rennie’s hit list.
Barbara has his own storyline going along the main plot. This includes a somewhat romantic relationship with the town reporter Julia Shumway. I enjoy a good love story as much as a cockroach enjoys getting stepped on, but I’m not sure how to feel about this one. I’m not even sure if we’re talking about love here. The conflicts between Rennie and Barbara however were excellent, I could almost feel how Rennie’s slight discomfort with Barbara turned into pure hatred.
The language of the book is actually one of the main reasons I enjoyed reading it so much, it was filled with inspirational little sentences such as “Murder is like potato chips: you can’t stop with just one.” and “If you were seeing a lot of horseshit, there had to be a pony in the vicinity.”, such beautiful words, I just felt like writing them down somewhere. The narrator was omniscient, occasionally letting us know who’d die in the next 30 minutes, it was written well so I enjoyed it a lot.
I really liked this book, the character development was believable and nice, the relationships between the characters were really human like. The ending however left me unimpressed, it felt like King would have just thought to himself ”Well, I’m done. I don’t feel like writing this anymore… I’ll make it end with a huge boom and aliens”. I also really enjoyed reading a book in English, been a while since I last did that, it was a lot easier than I remembered. The book was huge and hard to carry with me, but it was definitely worth it, I’d recommend it to anyone who appreciates a good storyline more than a satisfying ending.

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by | · 19:47

From Russia, with Love

From Russia, with Love is the fifth novel in Ian Fleming’s James bond series. First published in the UK was in 1957.

Much of action takes place in Istanbul, Turkey where James Bond was sent to assist in the defection of Soviet consulate clerk Tatiana Romanova, and where terrorist organization called SPECTRE planned to avenge James Bond’s killing professor Dr.No.

My first feelings about the book was negative and i thought the book would be tough and hard to read but my feelings turned upside down after the first few pages. As aficionado of James Bond i could say i really liked the book. There was lots of things admired, even if it was old-fashioned or old-standing film, whatever. It does not matter from which year is it, it is always a history.  Many things that surprised me in this book and example of it once again was technology. Yes, it was pretty old this time but i really felt myself being in 1957 where was no any computers or smartphones or some real high-technologed robots. It was so different, that is why it made me an enormous interest in the book and gave different concept of old times.   My opinion about secret agent James Bond is that he is more strict and really knows what he is doing and how he is doing his job to survive in the dangerous criminal world, but to some extent he still has the same features as modern James bond.  What about the other characters in the book, to be honest it did not made any big interest while i was reading and it did not played so important role for me.

All and all, the book was worth reading and very different and interesting. I recommend this book for all those people who respects old times and old-fashioned technology. Just take a break from all those modern devices and take a deep dive into old 1957.

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Slam

I red a book called Slam witch is written by Nick Hornby. Slam is published in 2007. Slam tell about a boy called Sam. The story is written Sam’s perspective. Sam is sixteen and he loves skate. The other significant characters in this book were Alicia and Sam’s mother. Alicia was Sam’s mother’s co-worker’s daughter. Sam got know Alicia through his mother and very quickly they started dating.         Let’s open the plot little bit. So Sam and Alicia started dating. All went well in the beginning until something irreversible happened. Alicia became pregnant. Sam went into a panic and he run away. In the end Sam returned and took responsibility of his actions. The book focuses on Sam’s thoughts in this difficult situation.                                                                                                                                                                       At the same time i liked the book and i did not like. The book theme was good but the method of storytelling was not my favorite one. The book tells only Sam’s thoughts in this hard situation. The book did not tell how Alicia feel. The second thing that i did not like was that sometimes Sam saw his own future. Easily i was left wondering whether the things happened or not because the things could be Sam’s future that he foresaw.                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Frankly i did not like any of the characters in the book. Sam was a coward because he did not took any responsibility for his action. Moreover he ran away and got everybody else to be worried about him. Alicia seemed little stubborn. She did not  really understand how big of an undertaking is was to have a baby.  Especially if you are teenager. Sam’s father seemed very indifferent when he heard that he son was about to become a father. It annoyed me. After all i was glad about one thing. Sam grow up during the book and ultimately took responsibility from what he had done.                                                                                                                                                                               Although i did not like the characters of the book the theme was great. It got me wondering about how much having a baby would change normal everyday life.

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by | 18.1.2015 · 23:22

Lord of the Flies

Lord of the Flies is a dystopian novel written by William Golding. To cut the plot short, the novel tells about a group of schoolboys who survived their plane crash on a desert island. At first they tried to survive and waited calmly to be rescued, but after a while they turned into savage people. Their life on the island wasn’t easy and the thoughts of a wild beast creeping in the night didn’t make it any easier.

During the time they waited to be rescued the group splits up into smaller tribes while their way of thinking is turning to the level of a caveman. Instead of doing things for common good they start to behave more self-centered. The theme of the book tells a lot about how easily we change our way of thinking, when it’s about life or death.

The book also tells in an awesome way about the feelings when you have no chance to do anything to solve a problem and about the difficulties when you have to co-operate with stubborn people who don’t see any other way of doing things. That’s also one of the reasons which creates the disastrous atmosphere on the island.

The main characters of the book are Ralph, Piggy and Jack. There are also other crucial and important people in the story, but the decisions of these three create the main path of the story. My favorite character was Ralph. At first Ralph seems to be an arrogant and mean person but his real, emotional and thoughtful personality is revealed as the story advances. During the time the group was on the island, he was the only one who cared and fought for common good whether he had energy or not.

Piggy, on the contrary, is a shy and overweighted boy who’s got asthma. Although Piggy seems to be a guy who doesn’t have the courage to say his thoughts out loud, he’s a very smart person who knows what to do and when. At first all the boys are insulting him but in the end Piggy and Ralph are those who stick together like best friends. I also think that Piggy’s mature way of understanding things effected Ralph’s acting positively.

Jack was a mysterious person. He was the leader of the choir boys but when all of the guys assembled for the first time and he lost the leader election to Ralph, he changed. At first he seemed to accept his defeat, but he was the first one who started to turn inhumane. He started to act really heartless against everything and everyone who didn’t accept his way to make something happen.

It was his fault, even though indirectly, that two of the boys died on the island. His behavior affected the guys who joined his tribe. Ralph, Piggy and all the other sensible guys hated him, me included.

The language of the book was understandable. Of course there where words I didn’t know but the most important thing was that the English wasn’t old with all its weird words and expressions. The narrator was omniscient and I don’t think that any other type of narrator would’ve fit the story. I liked the book very much. It was one of the best English novels I’ve ever read. I think I’m going to read more of Golding’s books, because his style of telling is nice, not too detailed, but so that the story remains interesting.

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Skellig

Skellig is a fantasy book written by British author David Almond. It was published in 1998. Skellig was Almond’s first book for young people and probably the best known. The book has won some prizes for example The Michael L. Printz Award. There is also a film based on it. Film was released in 2009.

The main character of the novel is Michael a ten years old boy. Mina and Skellig also have a quite big roles in the story. Other characters are Michael’s mom, dad and baby sister, Mina’s mom, Dr. Death, Leakey, Coot and Mrs. Dando. The author has described the characters and their personalities well. Story is told from Michael’s point of view.

The book tells a story about Michael. He and his family move into a new house and Michael doesn’t like it. His baby sister is ill and everybody are worried about her. At the new house’s yard there is a dilapidated garage. Michael is told not to go there but when others are inside the house he defies the proscription and goes in the garage. Inside he finds a lots of dust, old items, dead bugs and something strange in the corner. It looks like a human but it can’t be. At first Michael thinks that he doesn’t tell anybody about what he saw but when he gets to know Mina, a girl from next door, he decides to tell her. Here begins Michael and Mina’s adventure.

Skellig is a great story about friendship, curiousness and the healing power of love. I think that the book was pretty good and I would like to watch the film too. I haven’t read any books in English before so Skellig was perfect for me because it was easy to read and the plot was clear and compelling. I can recommend this book especially for those who haven’t read much in English but also for others who like this kind of books.

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The Hobbit – There and Back Again

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again is a fantasy novel published in 1937. It’s written by J.R.R. Tolkien whom most of us know as the author behind the well-known trilogy, The Lord of the Rings. Actually, the events of the trilogy date back to The Hobbit for the unexpected journey of Bilbo Baggins’ takes place exactly 60 years before Bilbo’s adopted son, Frodo, is driven to another adventure of which The Lord of the Rings is about.

The Hobbit has always been described as a classic of fantasy literature and it also fits with the category of children’s literature. It’s been said that Tolkien was the one to pioneer the genre of modern fantasy with The Hobbit and its influence on literature has been significant. There would be no Harry Potter or other illustrious book series if Tolkien had not invented the mighty world of Middle-earth as a bedtime story for his children.

The plot of The Hobbit is presumably familiar to everyone for the film version of the book has just been brought to an end. ”In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit”, is the very first sentence of the novel, which introduces us a hobbit, a creature so small that many other inhabitants of Middle-earth have never even heard of them but who will in the long run turn out to be very important, brave and loyal little fellows. The idea of both The Hobbit and The Lord of The Rings is how surprisingly wary and tiny hobbits who are often regarded as inconsequential creatures by men, elves and dwarves, are the ones to save Middle-earth from destruction. The major theme of The Hobbit is the quest, one of the oldest themes in literature. The main character, Bilbo, embarks on a quest and so the unexpected journey among twelve dwarves shall start. They aim at conquering the Lonely Mountain guarded by Smaug the dragon and taking back the kingdom that once was dwarves’. The journey allows Bilbo to encounter various characters and circumstances that are unfamiliar and even threatening to him.Through the course of his life he hadn’t experienced any adventures and now he suddenly had ended up in one. Bilbo encounters goblins, elves, Gollum and Smaug, for example, during his task to help the dwarves to retrieve their treasure, and he travels well beyond the hobbit-lands through Mirkwood and the Misty Mountains to the Lonely Mountain. The group including the hobbit, the dwarves and Gandalf the wizard faces many dangers and challenges on their path and especially in the thrilling end of the novel. After defeating Smaug and taking back Erebor the old enemies confront and thereby starts ”The Battle of the Five Armies”, which is the name of the last Hobbit-movie premiered two months ago.

Bilbo Baggins, the burglar, is one of the most essential characters as well as the dwarf Thorin Oakenshield, the leader of the entourage and the reightful heir of the Lonely Mountain, and Gandalf, the mysterious wizard who helps the group on their dangerous path. Bilbo is that wary and comfort-loving type of hobbit who wouldn’t have the heart to leave his dear home. As a matter of fact, not a single hobbit would do such a thing, after all, the freedom from care and ignorance of the rest of the world’s problems belongs to the true nature of the species. Unlike others, Bilbo, however, has a thirst for an adventure deep inside of him, which the dwarves and Gandalf raise by appearing behind Bilbo’s door. Most of the time on their journey Bilbo still dreams of his warm and comfy home but in the end returns to Hobbiton as a changed hobbit,as a more adventurous and experienced one. Thorin on the other hand is a bit grim and proud dwarf. After Smaug is defeated he’s the one to become the king of the mountain. Greed possesses his mind and for a while he forgets the true order of importance; family and friends before power or wealth, which is actually the novel’s deeper lesson too. Thorin doesn’t really like Bilbo at first, to his mind Bilbo is just a useless burden on their task whom Gandalf insisted to take along. But eventually, the hobbit turns out to be useful as he saves the dwarves from many tricky situations. Towards the end of the book a human called Bard is also introduced to the reader. He’s the one to slay the dragon after it has already caused destruction in Lake-town.

The language in the Hobbit is a bit archaic, word order differs from modern language repeatedly. It doesn’t complicate reading but it did affect my writing after finishing the novel. I had that odd obsession to write like Tolkien did. The narrator telling about the incidents happening in Middle-earth is omniscient.

The Hobbit as a fantasy novel belongs to the elite of the genre. It’s an amazing reading experience and every one should familiarize oneself with it at least because it’s one of those must-read classics. It’s a lot lighter to read than The Lord of the Rings was and even in English it didn’t require an incessant need for a dictionary. I love how the stories in the Hobbit and in the Lord of the Rings merge into, how Bilbo finds the One Ring by accident and doesn’t understand its real power. This ring will take Frodo for even a bigger and more dangerous adventure sixty years later. Tolkien owned the most incredible imagination ever and the Hobbit is only the beginning of the great story of Middle-earth and its amazing inhabitants.

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The 13 treasures

The 13 treasures is a novel written by Michelle Harriston, the novel is published in 2009 and it was her first novel. This novel is the first part of her trilogy which following parts are The 13 curses and The 13 secrets. Michelle Harriston is a 28 years old editorial assistant in children’s publishing and a former bookseller.
The 13 treasures is a fantasy novel and the theme of the novel is a detective story and it fits in its genre very well because fantasy novels often includes secrets and mysteries which are meant to be solved.

Main characters in the novel are Tanya, her grandmother Florence, Florence’s groundskeeper Warwick and his son Fabian. Tanya’s relationship to Florence has always been quite distant and it still is, Tanya has never felt herself welcome to visit her.  And what comes to Fabian he and Tanya had never actually been friends and Tanya had never really enjoyed his company. Tanya is a normal teenage girl except she has a second sight which means that she is able to see fairies. Her grandmother Florence is pretty distant and old-fashioned. Fabian is the same age as Tanya and he is a spindly nerd boy with messy hair and eyeglasses who likes to read about science and explore nature. His father Warwick is a grumpy and scary man who spends most of his days hunting in the forest. Tanya has always been a bit afraid of Warwick and avoided him.

 
The book begins when Tanya has an argument with her mom because of her bad behavior, which is a result of the tricks that the fairies have done to her and of course Tanya hasn’t told anyone about the fairies. Tanya’s mother sends her to live with her grandmother in a manor for a couple of weeks, where she founds a 50 years old newspaper cutting that says a young girl named Morwenna Bloom has disappeared in the woods near the manor. Later when Tanya’s dog Oberon runs into the woods Tanya and Fabian sees a girl there who looks just like Morwenna Bloom. After that Fabian tells Tanya that her grandmother had been best friends with Morwenna and Fabian’s grandfather Amos was the last person who saw Morwenna and because of that, the police and the village people suspected him of murdering Morwenna even Amos was in love with her. All the rumors about Amos being a murderer had ruined his life so Fabian and Tanya decided to go to the woods again to find out what really happened to Morwenna and to prove that Amos is innocent. One night Tanya saw an intruder in the manor and followed her into the secret passage. The intruder’s name is Red and she has a second sight too. One day Tanya receives an anonymous letter which says that when Morwenna disappeared she was caught to the fairy world so Tanya and Fabian went to the forest to rescue her. In the forest Morwenna tells them that Tanya’s grandmother Florence had also the second sight and she and Morwenna had made a deal 50 years ago to go to the fairy world together but Florence had betrayed her so now Morwenna was angry and intend to switch places with Tanya. Red came to rescue Tanya by taking her place in the switch and Morwenna died suddenly aging all those 50 years after the switch.

 

At the end of the book when Tanya realizes that her grandmother’s rejecting and distant behavior has been the result of her trying to protect Tanya, she starts to understand her grandmother better and they become more closer. Also Tanya’s relationship with Fabian gets better and they realizes that they care about each other and actually are friends and have a good time together. Tanya also got more information and experience about the fairies during her time in the manor and now knows better how to deal with them so she won’t get in trouble so easily.
I really liked the book and the plot was great even though at first I was skeptical because of the fairy things. The plot really was riveting and I read the novel surprisingly fast and in some parts the novel was even a bit scary so it was exiting to read it. I also think that it was easy to read a novel in English and the language of the novel was pretty easy so I understood the meanings of the sentences easily.

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