Francois Wolfaardt Wolfaardt itibaren Head Manpur, Bihar 823003, Hindistan
Came to this after watching the television series "Bones" and seeing the based on the author Kathy Reichs at the start. I really expected the book to be more like the television series -- and it was not. Slow reading at the start - had to push myself to read it - got better half way through. The Canadian French words were difficult for me. Looking forward to some of the other books in the series.
read the first third of this on the T and LOATHED it. every single story had the same voice/inspid socially awkward protagonist and "look at how deviant I am" sexual frankness. incredibly dull.
So I absolutely LOVED Rebecca when I read it a year and a half ago. It was amazing and creepy and just wonderfully suspenseful and everything I could want from such a novel. So when I saw that there was a YA retelling of it, of course I clicked that request button! And while with Rebecca I felt that I was right there with the main character, in New Girl that never really happened for me. I liked the way Paige Harbison converted the marriage and living in Manderley to a boarding school and a really awkward teenage non-relationship (and let's face it, haven't you ever been in a relationship that wasn't classified as such? Or is that just me?). I also really liked the main character who, like the main character in Rebecca, remains nameless and is just referred to by everyone as 'new girl'. I especially liked that our main character developed a back bone throughout it all and defended herself against her roommate who's extremely nasty to her and all the others in the school who voiced the opinion that she could never live up to the legacy of Becca Normandy. I had infinitely more respect for her after she decided that she didn't have to be like Becca, she was a person worth knowing in her own right and shouldn't be compared to the girl that went missing. But really, while I liked Maxwell in Rebecca, the Max Holloway in New Girl by no means lived up to him. Seriously, I would have dumped his ass and not accepted his apologies every freaking time. I really, really didn't like him for most of the novel, in the end he redeems himself somewhat, but he was seriously messed up. The point of view switches between Becca and our nameless main character, which was pretty interesting, but the chapters narrated by Becca were really hard to read for me, cause well, Becca is a bitch. Seriously. I cannot for the live of me find one thing about her character that I liked. She was manipulative and just kind of crazy. I did enjoy the story and I loved the character growth the main character went through. I also thought this modern adaptation was incredibly fitting and loved recognizing the elements from the original story as they appeared in New Girl. I didn't really care for New Girl's dream towards the end though, but that's something to just forget about quickly. This was an enjoyable read that has all kinds of human craziness in it! My rating: 3 stars
This was disappointing. Without going into details, I definitely don't like Shakespeare's Histories.