Book Review:
Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone
By: Kat Rosenfield
General Information:
Title- Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone
Author- Kat Rosenfield
Copyright date – 2012
Genre – Young Adult
Pages - 279
Price - $17.99
ISBN – 978-0-525-42389-8
Synopsis: “Becca
has always longed to break free. Free from her backwater hometown. Free from
its small-town gossip and dead-end lives. But the horrifying discovery of a
dead body—an outsider, Amelia Anne, battered and broken—on the morning after
graduation sends Becca into an unexpected tailspin. As the violence of the real
world creeps close to home, Becca retreats, paralyzed from moving forward for
the first time in her life. The details of Amelia Anne’s final, harrowing
moments play out against Becca’s own out-of-control summer as Becca’s and
Amelia’s parallel stories twist the reader closer and closer to the horrifying
truth in this emotionally arresting, sexy, and raw debut from dazzling new
talent Kat Rosenfield.”
Cover- The cover
is very original and nicely done! Very simple but actually works for the book
at the same time. I am totally in love with it!
Point of
view- This is written in the point of view from both Becca and
Amelia Anne. I liked that they would switch the narration between them every
other couple of chapters. It was a good tie in to see a little back story to
Amelia Anne. It’s important when the whole book is supposed to be about how
their two stories intertwine.
Intended
audience- The audience is the young adults but it seemed to be more
geared towards older teens but not entirely new adult.
Author
style- Some of the great things about her style was that she has a
lot of originality with the plot of her story; the moving between worlds has
been used a lot though. One part of her writing that I didn’t like was that
almost all of her male characters were not good people. But in all I really
liked her writing style and it seemed to flow very nicely. The only thing I
think she could have done better was to somehow show us when the time periods
changed like with a different font or something.
Characters – These
characters were all very naive and didn’t really seem to grow throughout the
book. Becca seemed to be in her own world the whole time and not really sure of
herself. Like I have said before the male characters were all horrible people –
I didn’t like any of them one bit! I would have loved to see more character
development by the end of the book.
Plot – Its
starts off great; makes you really not want to put it down but I found that as
I read on it got to a point where it really slowed down. I felt like it was very
slow moving and nothing happened for a long time then by the end I was in love
with it again. The prologue was one of
the best starting points in a book that I have seen in a while, it started off
really strong. Another part of the plot that was great was when they found
Amelia’s body and the vocab throughout the book; “Breakable bones, the tiny
phalanges and brittle carpals, splayed and splintered in the gravel.”
Setting- In a tiny
town called Bridgeton where everyone knows everyone else. It is a very ‘clique’
kind of town; wither you are in or out of the people of the town. Having the
stress of this really hurt Becca and gave her a lot of inner turmoil.
My Opinion- I believe
that this book had a great beginning and great ending, the middle could have
been a little bit more. The only reason I say this is because it seemed like
the book came to a point where there was nothing really going on and some of
the little things would have been able to be deleted and still been great. The
vocab was amazing although and described everything within the book extremely
well. When I first started this book I never thought it would end the way it
did. The journey it took to get to the ending was one of the best I have been
on in a while. It did feel like the story within ‘Amelia Anne’s’ chapters was
much more interesting.
Quotes
- “I have learned that
knowing where you’re going means remembering where you’ve been. I’m not afraid
of what lurks behind me, or ahead.”
—
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Kat Rosenfield, Amelia Anne is
Dead and Gone
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“My heart- which had always yearned for a bigger life, which had
always been in love with leaving- would lead me away from him when the time
came”
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Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone by Kat Rosenfield
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Would you
recommend this? - Yes
Want to buy
this book - http://www.bookdepository.com/Amelia-Anne-Is-Dead-Gone-Kat-Rosenfield/9780142426104
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