So, I want to begin by saying, I didn't finish this book. I had so many problems with the writing and characters that I did not enjoy reading it for the most part. The first thing that struck me about this book is that it was not at all about what I had expected. 'The Girl with all the Gifts' is such a misleading title as it has little to do with the story and the blurb does not give much away. So when I actually got into the story it was a real shock for me to find out it was about *Spoiler Alert* Zombies! I've not had much luck with Zombie based novels in the past, for example: The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan; This disappoints me because I love zombies in television, movies and games and would love to add books to that list, but sadly so far I can't do that. …show more content…
This is not helped at all by the large amount of comparisons with other literary texts because most of them I had not read myself, and the little explanation given was not much help either. This novel is wrote in a third person narrative which distances the reader from the characters and led to me not really caring about what happened to them and really impacted my enjoyment of the book. My lack of empathy may have also derived from the absence of a solid form of character development. The characters are described to the reader in facts rather then emotions, making it hard to connect with each of them useless you had something in common; which I did not as none of the perspectives in the novel were from anyone remotely like me. The one advantage to this direction in writing is that the reader receives more information about the world of the novel that some perspectives could not tell us; along with creating dramatic irony as the reader knows more than some of the
In my opinion I thought that this book was a very good book. In this chapter I will describe the setting, theme, plot and conflict etc. This book had a few different settings like
To be completely honest, I haven’t finished this book – And I don’t plan on to.
An additional objection that I had for this book was that in some parts, it failed to narrow in on where the setting was. At some points, it would simply state an island, or maybe just a city name. As readers, we cannot be expected to know where these places are or what country they are in. As an author, she should have clarified these details better.
This book, was never to my liking, I always wondered why Mrs.Silva always talked about this book. I was never interested in reading really long books, my mind always would drift off but this book had something about it that was connected with me!
I wouldn’t recommend this book to the average reader. It is a bit hard to read because the author goes into so much depth that the reader could very often forget the main idea. It is a good, informative book but a bit drawn out.
I began this book with mediocre expectations. I’m not much for reading novels, especially those as strenuous and non-fictional as the book of our topic. You could say I'm hard to interest. I assumed this read would just be the typical chore that reading books usually is to me, but as I so quickly found myself getting lost in the density written upon this book’s 383 factually packed pages and was engrossed by the photos printed in the middle of the book, I changed my mind. My expectations were pleasantly exceeded! I say with complete confidence that this novel is like nothing I have read before.
Firstly, this book got straight into the action, which I loved. Sometimes it works when authors build up the story before the action starts trickling in, but other times, it 's nice to be plunged straight in the
Due to how the novel was written I found it hard to figure out who everyone was, along with their relationship to each other was when I first started to read it. In order for me to figure out the characters and what was going on in the book I had to take notes while reading
Throughout the plot, the interactions among these characters escalate, building up a strong feeling of suspense and doubt. After reading this book, I would highly recommend this as more of a class or group book. I wouldn’t recommend it as a personal reading book. It’s more exciting and thrilling to read in a group setting and not in your free time. The main themes of this novel are trust, betrayal, and consequences of choosing actions.
I believe that this was a pretty decent book, at times it was boring and
This is a short review as I should have written this closer to when I finished it. School was still in session when I read this book.
While reading this book I had lots of questions which was what made the plot so good because I was constantly leaving the book with a
All in all the book was a great novel with great character development, but the bias, exaggeration, and predictable
Predominantly, being the fact that this piece of literature was composed in the 1500s, also known as Old English, it is very baffling and difficult to understand. In comparing the Old English to the modern English language, there is a big generation gap between the two. Take for example, a
Without appreciation and considerations to morality and religion then it would be difficult to fully comprehend the novel.