Boys of Blood
and Bone, written by David Metzenthen were in my opinion a pretty good book
overall. Though it took a long time to get into the book, and to be generally
interested to continue to keep reading the book it was really interesting by
the end of the book. At the start of the book, in my opinion was boring as
there was too much detail and the event in which the character was written to
introduce the readers to the book was not so much interesting but slow and
boring. But, as the book continued the details of the characters became more
interesting as their lives turned from a normal life, to an exciting,
adventurous life. These events that structured the lives of the characters were
shaping the books characteristics, evolving the book to become more appealing
to the readers, allowing them to continue reading it.
Though this novel was
good, I would change 2 parts of the book. The first part that I would change
would be the beginning of the book (chapter 1). The introduction to the book
wasn’t exciting enough for me – as a reader – there should have been a very
interesting event at the start of the book to allow the readers to become
interested and keep reading, otherwise (like myself) the readers would put the
book down and not continue reading the book, but due to this assignment I had
to continue reading the book. The second part that I would change would be the
ending. I would like to know what Janine and Henry’s relationship would turn
out; would they continue being friends, or would their relationship grow into
becoming more intimate (romantic). This change would be the greatest ending to
the book, as it would be a lot of excitement for the reader knows that this book
was ending in a very positive note. The book’s greatest strength would have
been the detailed descriptions of the emotions of the character; this
influenced me to keep reading, affecting my emotions towards the characters.
These descriptions made me feel for the character, also relating to experiences
that have happened to me in the past.
Overall, the
book was good, though it needed parts of the book to be changed. I liked it :)
I just wanted to thank you for this post, i have to read this book for school and found the story line quite hard to understand and follow without almost falling asleep. After reading your posts i actually can understand and put together what i have read. Thank you :)
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