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Wow, what a rush of emotions to go through in one day. This book has given me more existential crises than I've ever had in such a short amount of time. I even went and asked all my friends if they would save the planet if they had the option—of course they all said yes. I loved this book because it captured so many of the problems in the world today, such a depression and not seeking help. I like that both Henry and the readers kind of knew the whole time that he was like Jesse, but neither of us wanted to acknowledge it. The aliens thing weirded me out in the beginning at first, but by the end I loved it. I should feel disappointed in the ending of this book, but the meaning behind it is so... I can't even describe it. Perfect isn't the right word, but it's the closest thing I can come up with. The last chapter was my absolute favorite, but if you read it before reading the rest of the book then it will completely ruin the quality of it. I recommend this to anyone, especially people that enjoy books about mental health and teen angst.
The only reason I gave this book 2 stars instead of 1 is because there were some parts that got interesting. Other than that, this was one of the worst books I've ever read. The writing style was horrible and I could never even tell what was going on. The story started out good with suspenseful excitement and anxiety, but everything after that was just boring and terrible, especially the ending.
This book obviously isn't as good as Elie's first book, Night, because this one is fiction. It is still deep and eye-opening, just not as much so. I would still recommend this book to the people that enjoyed his first book based off his experiences because he does almost as well with writing about other's experiences as well.
I haven't read many original Sherlock Holmes stories, but as far as I can tell Anthony Horowitz did very well in recreating the style and personalities of the characters. I love reading Sherlock stories because they're so interesting in the sense of how Sherlock solves the mysteries, using his intelligence like it's nothing. The mystery in this book was enthralling and, although it was a bit slow and took me a while to read (like every Sherlock story because I'm not smart enough to read them quickly), I was hooked until the finish.
I never read the description for this book until I was just about to start reading it and I had no idea it was going to be about high schoolers' lives, to be honest. After I realized that it was just another teen drama book, I wasn't that excited to read it, but I was actually pleasantly surprised. It wasn't amazing or perfect—it was pretty stereotypical and predictable—but it got me to actually care about the characters. Maybe that's why they're called CAREacters... no? Okay, ignore that joke. Anyway, this book made me cry and that's usually a sign of good writing, so I'm giving this book 4 stars (probably more like 3.75 though).
Noah reminded me so much of one of my friends, I was hooked on this book from the start. I don't usually like ten contemporary books, but I actually loved most of this one. The setup for the plot was a little predictable in some aspects, but still shocked me at times and was very interesting. There was some predictable and stereotypical stuff, but it was all the stuff in between that I liked.
It took me a while to realize what was going on, but it ended pretty interestingly.
Maybe it's just because I'm too young or I only read it in my own time rather than with a class, but I found this book very boring and just full of cheating and partying and death, none of which interest me much.
Not how I expected it to be based on the modern takes of it, but still good. It got boring after it started focusing on just the ladies living back at home though, rather than Dracula and his castle.