Juan Rivera Rivera itibaren Сайдстранд, Кроумер, Норфолк NR27, Великобритания
This book was okay. It made me think about how involved those on the other side are with us.
Description: In Linda Olsson’s debut novel, Veronika Bergman returns to Sweden after a childhood following her diplomat father around the world and after publishing her first novel titled Single, One Way, No Luggage. She rents a small house in a rural town to work on her second book, but finds herself tormented by nightmares and the memories of her recently deceased fiancé. Astrid Mattson, an old, reclusive woman thought by the village to be a witch, lives across the way and takes an interest in Veronika. The two strike up an unlikely friendship based on loss and pain. Against the backdrop of the changing seasons and their small, intimate houses, the two women slowly tell each other their most closely guarded secrets, and venture, cautiously, out of the safety of their routines. My Thoughts: I thoroughly enjoyed following the relationship that developed between Astrid and Veronika. Although a story in which two damaged people have the good fortune to find each other and help one another through their pain sounds cliche, the story felt original and the relationship between the two characters was a breath of fresh air. I thought the lack of dialogue and focus on descriptions and character thoughts would make the story hard for me to get through. However, I felt the characters were sympathetic, and I was interested in learning more about each character’s history which kept me moving easily through the narrative. Although Olsson tries to be subtle and cryptic in her revelation of traumatizing events in Astrid and Veronika’s lives, she ends up just being vague. Plus, the reader is hit over the head with hints of what is to come. For instance, Veronika repeatedly demonizes the ocean, leading the reader to predict a life will be taken by the ocean way before that actually happens. Plus, I was not satisfied with the ending. Without giving too much away, I thought that one character left the other character with more pain and loss and possibly guilt, which was what both characters were trying to overcome the entire story through this relationship.
I thought this was a really good book and would recommend it to anyone who is willing to take some time and read it. What I liked basically everything from the adventure to the action to the humor and to the very little romance that was in the book. There are six main characters Max, Fang, Iggy, Nudge, The Gasman (Gassy), Angel and the all have been able to do amezing things like breathing underwater, reading minds, or flying super fast. Max and the flock are in Mexico and when they get back to the states they decide to try this school, but it end up not working out for them. They soon find out that Max's mom has been kidnapped and that she is in Hawaii. When they get to Hawaii they ask to use one of the navys subs, but in order to do that they have to do a lot of training. When they get out in the water they find out that they have some very interesting skill, but they end up finding her mom, but the person who took her ended up getting away.