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On the Other Side
by Carrie Hope Fletcher
Me at 12:30 a.m.: Ah, time to settle down, maybe read a chapter or two before I go to sleep...
Me at 2:30 a.m.: I NEED SLEEP SO BADLY BUT THIS WAS WORTH IT
It was original, surreal, and completely off-the-wall, but I was just absolutely hooked; which, if you ask me, is the mark of a good book.
The writing itself was good; stronger in some places in others, occasionally cringe-worthy, and the opening could have done with a lot of work, and that is why it has 4 rather than 5 stars, but that was the only thing that let it down at all and, as I said, it was good enough to keep me reading, which is all that really matters.
I wish this book had been twice as long as it was. It felt like Carrie knew each and every one of these characters inside-out, and it almost seemed a shame that we didn't get to know more about them (although obviously the book was about Evie. Sequel please? Pretty please?) I felt like every single character, even those that only appeared in one or two pages, had a whole story already written about them somewhere else, and I desperately want to read them all! The only character that felt a bit two-dimensional was Evie's mother, who is a straight-out-of-Disney horrible, but I especially want to know more (more, more, please please please more!) about Eddie and Clementine.
I won't go into more details about the individual parts of the plot, but (with the exception of the opening couple of chapters) I thought it was brilliant and original, if a bit surreal. I haven't read much magical realism and I'm still unsure about how I feel about the genre as a whole, but once I'd got myself into the mindset of the world that this story was set in I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Me at 2:30 a.m.: I NEED SLEEP SO BADLY BUT THIS WAS WORTH IT
It was original, surreal, and completely off-the-wall, but I was just absolutely hooked; which, if you ask me, is the mark of a good book.
The writing itself was good; stronger in some places in others, occasionally cringe-worthy, and the opening could have done with a lot of work, and that is why it has 4 rather than 5 stars, but that was the only thing that let it down at all and, as I said, it was good enough to keep me reading, which is all that really matters.
I wish this book had been twice as long as it was. It felt like Carrie knew each and every one of these characters inside-out, and it almost seemed a shame that we didn't get to know more about them (although obviously the book was about Evie. Sequel please? Pretty please?) I felt like every single character, even those that only appeared in one or two pages, had a whole story already written about them somewhere else, and I desperately want to read them all! The only character that felt a bit two-dimensional was Evie's mother, who is a straight-out-of-Disney horrible, but I especially want to know more (more, more, please please please more!) about Eddie and Clementine.
I won't go into more details about the individual parts of the plot, but (with the exception of the opening couple of chapters) I thought it was brilliant and original, if a bit surreal. I haven't read much magical realism and I'm still unsure about how I feel about the genre as a whole, but once I'd got myself into the mindset of the world that this story was set in I thoroughly enjoyed it.