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Dark Academia Novels (11) Top Five Books of 2013 (533) » 16 more Books Read in 2015 (996) Unread books (327) Academia in Fiction (40) Contemporary Fiction (45) Best Campus Novels (69) Books Read in 2022 (3,303) Female Protagonist (543) Biggest Disappointments (117) Books Read in 2008 (145) Scolaire (8) Summer Reading (16) to get (54) No current Talk conversations about this book. A classic coming of age tale meets a conspiracy theory thriller roughly at its peak and the two spark an entirely new type of story. Compelling and shockingly good. ( ![]() DNF. i wanted to like this and on some level it connected with my "inner teenager," i know i would've loved it when i was like 15 - but unfortunately as an adult i just found it insufferable. i also didn't think the main character was particularly fleshed out, she just seemed to constantly define herself in terms of her father and her devotion to him - and i found the father character utterly annoying and frustrating. i got my friend to spoil the ending for me so i do get what she was going for, but it did NOT work for me. A quirky, wordy, bookish novel. It started out with a slow but enjoyable build up to. . .a lengthy expositional section that seemed to be lost and wondering just where it belonged. It went off the rails at the end and came to a ho-hum rest that betrayed the reader (me) more than a little given the initial promises made by the author. Wonderfully entertaining, nonetheless, so I couldn't give it less than four stars out of five. Sono arrivata fino a pagina 129 e non so nemmeno come. È stata una lettura (seppur parziale) estenuante. Dei personaggi non ce n'è uno che sia anche solo lontanamente credibile. Could have been a decent book but it was just too much. Too long, too descriptive, too pretentious. Could have cut 30% out by removing half the over the top metaphors and useless references. I liked the book at the beginning but very quickly started skimming for dialogue only.
Her exhilarating synthesis of the classic and the modern, frivolity and fate — “Pnin” meets “The O.C.” — is a poetic act of will. Never mind jealous detractors: virtuosity is its own reward. And this skylarking book will leave readers salivating for more. Has as a student's study guideAwardsDistinctionsNotable Lists
A darkly funny coming-of-age novel and a richly plotted suspense tale told through the distinctive voice of its heroine, Blue van Meer. After a childhood moving from one academic outpost to another with her father (a man prone to aphorisms and meteoric affairs), Blue is clever, deadpan, and possessed of a vast lexicon of literary, political, philosophical, and scientific knowledge--and is quite the cinéaste to boot. In her final year of high school at the élite (and unusual) St. Gallway School in Stockton, North Carolina, Blue falls in with a charismatic group of friends and their captivating teacher, Hannah Schneider. But when the drowning of one of Hannah's friends and the shocking death of Hannah herself lead to a confluence of mysteries, Blue is left to make sense of it all with only her gimlet-eyed instincts and cultural references to guide--or misguide--her.--From publisher description. No library descriptions found.
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