Weekly Remainders (4)

Happy Sunday!  I hope you’ve had a good week! 

I only got one book this week –

From NetGalley and Random House:

My reviews this week:

Wife 22 by Melanie Gideon
Revived by Cat Patrick
Lies Beneath by Anne Greenwood Brown
The Summer My Life Began by Shannon Greenland
Dreamless by Josephine Angelini

What I’m reading next week:
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
Enchanted by Alethea Kontis
Little Night by Luanne Rice

Contests:
600 Follower giveaway goes live tomorrow! There will be six winners and it’s international!

Lastly, the wonderful ladies over at Girls In The Stacks have been having discussions about Fracture by Megan Miranda. (If you’re not following their blog, you should be – it’s awesome!!)  It’s an excellent book and a few bloggers, like myself, answered questions.  Here is my question and answer:

The reader only gets glimpses of the underlying issue behind Delaney’s mother’s troubles and it’s obvious that her past is affecting how she now treats Delaney after her accident.  If Miranda had given this issue more page time, would elaboration on the relationship between Delaney and her mom, and the mother and her parents have helped or hindered the story?

Kate:  I think that as adults reading YA, it is natural to desire more interaction between parent and child and to know more about the parents because we (adult readers) are reading this from our adult perspective.  While I might desire to know more about a character’s background, there is a point at which you must take a story at face value.  This is not her mom’s story, it’s Delaney’s.  We know that her mom was in an abusive home and she got out.  We know that Delaney’s relationship with her mom is a little strained and after her accident becomes even more so.  While I might be interested in knowing more about this because I am interested in these types of things, in general, it doesn’t really mean that the story suffered because of it.  What I took away from that information was that Delaney’s mother struggled in her life just as Delaney is struggling after her accident.  We are all of us a little bit broken by the things that we have overcome in our lives and we all have secrets.  I found it very realistic that neither party (Delaney or her mom) really revealed the reason behind their brokenness.  People carry things within them without telling anyone all the time. Would it have made the book better to know more?  I’m not so sure, really. Would we have known more about Delaney by knowing more about her mom?  I’m not convinced of that.  Would the book suffer from more elaboration?  I don’t think it would have suffered, per say, but it might have changed the focus of the book, and I have to say that I enjoyed it immensely just as it was written.

Please check out the rest of the questions and answers here.  It’s an excellent book and interesting discussion!

Have a great week!

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9 responses to “Weekly Remainders (4)

  1. I’m reading Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas too!!!! I just put it down to browse the internet, but girl as soon as I am done I am picking it back up!!! I heard so many wonderful things about it, hope I am not disappointed!

    What did you think of Wife 22? I just got it in the mail and haven’t wanted to pick it up yet…

  2. I hope you don’t mind but I updated my blog news post to include my book club Q&A too! I hope you don’t mind that I copied you but I wasn’t sure how to feature it on the blog, but it’s perfect to have in a weekly recap post!

    Intentions looks really good! I can’t wait to hear what you think of Throne of Glass! I read the first novella for the series and really liked it so I’m excited to get to ToG… I plan to read it in June.

    ~ Jen @ A Book and a LatteThe Sunday Post: Book Haul & Blog News

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