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Chargement... Infinite Blue (édition 2018)par Darren Groth (Auteur)
Information sur l'oeuvreInfinite Blue par Darren Groth (Author)
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Infinite Love. This book starts with a near drowning in a rip tide that brings together a talented swimmer and an excellent artist, and proceeds to tell the tale of their love... and the artist's Finnish grandmother nearly steals the show. Excellent drama with some mild fantasy/ scifi elements built in almost from the beginning that proceeds to a stunning conclusion. A very quick and easy read, though hardly light - this is a deep look at eternal love, even when the couple is young. ( ) I received this eARC from Orca Books via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Obligatory Summary This is a difficult book to summarize because, honestly, I don't really know what happened. Basically, take that one movie about a girl who loves surfing but gets bitten by a shark and losses an arm but learns to surf again, and merge it with a fever dream version of Aqua Marine, and you'll still not have what happened. This book makes no sense. I'll give you what I did understand, though. So, Ash saves Clayton from dying in the prologue and in the first chapter they're suddenly casually declaring their love. Ash is a hardcore swimmer who breaks a world record and gets swept up in her mother's dream of stardom. Then she suffers a devastating accident that changes her life forever. Clayton...draws, I guess? He has a sassy chain-smoking Finnish grandma and that's about all I can really say. The Writing (and Worldbuilding?) So, is this an urban fantasy or a magical realism fever dream? I honestly don't know. The book felt like two distinct coherent stories chopped up and smashed together: 1) Ash, the swimmer, and her power hungry, emotionally deprived mother, facing the aftermath of a terrible accident; 2) Clayton and his grandma chill and she regales him with stories about his grandfather who was a soldier in Korea. And then suddenly, there's mystical drawings (because you can ~accidentally~ draw things) and water-lover mermaids and Cuba. All in less than 200 pages. It was a mess, honestly. The grandma was the only interesting character, and her love story told entirely in anecdotes was more real, passionate, and believable than the forced mess between two wooden planks I was supposed to be invested in for no discernable reason. The Characters Ash: Between the two of them, she definitely had more personality, but honestly, she was so unrelatable. She was always talking about her ~training~ and her mystical ~connection~ to the water, and as someone who has literally never swam in my life (I'm a wimp and not standing on solid surfaces freaks me out, okay?) I couldn't relate whatsoever. Clayton: You'd think I related to him because he draws and so do I but, but he was so boring. He spends the whole book in Ash's shadow being vaguely confused. And honestly, same. (I guess we do relate lol) Blythe: Excuse me while I look for character arcs for any of these characters. Oh wait, there aren't any. Blythe is just as mean and stubborn and unreasonably villainous as she is at the beginning by the end. Coach Dwyer: How do you pronounce that? D-why-er? D-w-ear? Who knows? Tuula: Heck yeah, give more sassy chain-smoking Finnish grandma! Conclusion I kinda hated this book. It sucks. Don't read it when it comes out. Except maybe if you want Tuula in your life, which is a good reason. Read it for her. She's totally worth it. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. This book... Okay. I really love magical realism. It's my jam. And this book had that- which is good. And it had great cover art. And there was an awesome chain smoking grandma. But otherwise the book wasn't for me. It wasn't bad. Honestly, it was really well written and I like the author's style. I just didn't connect with any of the characters strongly. This is possibly because I'm not the target audience, so don't take this review as a suggestion to skip this book. It's totally a case of -It's not you, it's me.-I received this eARC from Orca Books via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Obligatory Summary This is a difficult book to summarize because, honestly, I don't really know what happened. Basically, take that one movie about a girl who loves surfing but gets bitten by a shark and losses an arm but learns to surf again, and merge it with a fever dream version of Aqua Marine, and you'll still not have what happened. This book makes no sense. I'll give you what I did understand, though. So, Ash saves Clayton from dying in the prologue and in the first chapter they're suddenly casually declaring their love. Ash is a hardcore swimmer who breaks a world record and gets swept up in her mother's dream of stardom. Then she suffers a devastating accident that changes her life forever. Clayton...draws, I guess? He has a sassy chain-smoking Finnish grandma and that's about all I can really say. The Writing (and Worldbuilding?) So, is this an urban fantasy or a magical realism fever dream? I honestly don't know. The book felt like two distinct coherent stories chopped up and smashed together: 1) Ash, the swimmer, and her power hungry, emotionally deprived mother, facing the aftermath of a terrible accident; 2) Clayton and his grandma chill and she regales him with stories about his grandfather who was a soldier in Korea. And then suddenly, there's mystical drawings (because you can ~accidentally~ draw things) and water-lover mermaids and Cuba. All in less than 200 pages. It was a mess, honestly. The grandma was the only interesting character, and her love story told entirely in anecdotes was more real, passionate, and believable than the forced mess between two wooden planks I was supposed to be invested in for no discernable reason. The Characters Ash: Between the two of them, she definitely had more personality, but honestly, she was so unrelatable. She was always talking about her ~training~ and her mystical ~connection~ to the water, and as someone who has literally never swam in my life (I'm a wimp and not standing on solid surfaces freaks me out, okay?) I couldn't relate whatsoever. Clayton: You'd think I related to him because he draws and so do I but, but he was so boring. He spends the whole book in Ash's shadow being vaguely confused. And honestly, same. (I guess we do relate lol) Blythe: Excuse me while I look for character arcs for any of these characters. Oh wait, there aren't any. Blythe is just as mean and stubborn and unreasonably villainous as she is at the beginning by the end. Coach Dwyer: How do you pronounce that? D-why-er? D-w-ear? Who knows? Tuula: Heck yeah, give more sassy chain-smoking Finnish grandma! Conclusion I kinda hated this book. It sucks. Don't read it when it comes out. Except maybe if you want Tuula in your life, which is a good reason. Read it for her. She's totally worth it. Cette critique a été écrite dans le cadre des Critiques en avant-première de LibraryThing. A short cute romance that I enjoyed reading. I liked both Ashley and Clayton and thought they had great chemistry. I also enjoyed the fact that Ashley was a swimmer, as I could relate to that.If I could change anything about this book I would definitely change the length. As much as I liked the story I wanted more of it, the ending was a little odd to me too but all together it was an enjoyable read. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
Ashley Drummond is an elite swimmer. Clayton Sandalford is a talented artist. From the moment of their first meeting, they were destined to be together. Staying together, however, will test the limits of their love. A world-record swim, and the strange vision that accompanies it, raises questions about the couple's connection. Then a life-altering incident triggers a mystical change, which will demand that both of them let go in ways never imagined. Infinite Blue is a contemporary fairy tale about love and loss, flesh and water, the source of eternity, the lure of possibility and the belief that life is limitless when it's immersed in legend. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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