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One Night in a Thousand Years
by Craig Cunningham
Found this via one of those random FB ads that popped up in my feed. I looked it up, high ratings, looked interesting. Text on KU - audio on Hoopla ... Here, the character Colt in his senior year. My youngest (Colton) is in his senior year. I had liked Dead Poet's Society (this had one of those "if you liked Dead Poet's Society" taglines). Dawson from Dawson's Creek narrating ...
Surprisingly, this book just never really connected for me. Very conversational tone. I can't note anything I disliked or found fault with really ... my mind just kept wandering. The narration was fine, but again, just a little bland. Usually I can have an audiobook on and multi-task fine, but here, I just kept losing my listen and had to rewind, check the Kindle copy.
This was a little TOO much like Dead Poet's Society actually ... the unorthodox leader reaching out to teen boys, teaching them about life. He even has the boys watch Dead Poet's Society. They say Carpe Diem too much.
The love interest Noa ... I just kept hearing "Noah" and had to remind myself Noa was a girl, not a guy (personal association more with guys).
There were a few of the revelatory premonitions ... right at the start "I had no way of knowing then. But the person who wrote those notes was coming to ruin my life" ... for me, that's not even foreshadowing, that's spoiler territory, right in the book itself. It happened a few times, as well as starting in the "present" for the prologue (an adult) and then back to the high school days. No dates given though. I guess that keeps it from being dated (just sometime after the movie Dead Poet's Society was available to watch).
As a parent (of a boy in his senior year in high school) I do stress a little when reading about some of the stupid things kids do when they are in groups. Not even that bad, just pranks and parties.
I finished this, came to review it, and couldn't even really remember much about it at all.
Kindle copy cover is very bland. The audiobook cover is nice.
Not really sure on the title connection.
2.5 stars.
Surprisingly, this book just never really connected for me. Very conversational tone. I can't note anything I disliked or found fault with really ... my mind just kept wandering. The narration was fine, but again, just a little bland. Usually I can have an audiobook on and multi-task fine, but here, I just kept losing my listen and had to rewind, check the Kindle copy.
This was a little TOO much like Dead Poet's Society actually ... the unorthodox leader reaching out to teen boys, teaching them about life. He even has the boys watch Dead Poet's Society. They say Carpe Diem too much.
The love interest Noa ... I just kept hearing "Noah" and had to remind myself Noa was a girl, not a guy (personal association more with guys).
There were a few of the revelatory premonitions ... right at the start "I had no way of knowing then. But the person who wrote those notes was coming to ruin my life" ... for me, that's not even foreshadowing, that's spoiler territory, right in the book itself. It happened a few times, as well as starting in the "present" for the prologue (an adult) and then back to the high school days. No dates given though. I guess that keeps it from being dated (just sometime after the movie Dead Poet's Society was available to watch).
As a parent (of a boy in his senior year in high school) I do stress a little when reading about some of the stupid things kids do when they are in groups. Not even that bad, just pranks and parties.
I finished this, came to review it, and couldn't even really remember much about it at all.
Kindle copy cover is very bland. The audiobook cover is nice.
Not really sure on the title connection.
2.5 stars.