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3.97 AVERAGE
3.97 AVERAGE
I did enjoy this one, but there were a few things I didn't enjoy. I did like Sabine, who was living two lives, and I did like Ethan... but didn't really connect with many other characters and couldn't quite work out the relationship between Sabine and Dex.
So, this one was ok, but I didn't like it as much as all of Jessica Shirvington's other books.
So, this one was ok, but I didn't like it as much as all of Jessica Shirvington's other books.
Between the Lives, es una historia definitivamente diferente. Tuve que leerlo de una sentada porque no podía parar. Y aunque el final es bastante obvio y quedan varias interrogantes sin respuestas (sobretodo: ¿Por qué se inicia el glitch?), me encantó.
Spoiler
desde el primer momento en el que Ryan mencionó que iría a casa con un amigo, como en el 20% del libro, supe que iba a ser Ethan. Y lo de la enfermedad y su vida en el hospital no podía ser más previsible.
4.6/5
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One girl. Two different identities. Two separate lives.
This is the world that Sabine lives in. In one life she's a down-to-earth braniac with hard-working parents. In another, she's a rich and popular fashionista with a hot boyfriend and two older brothers. Sabine has got the best of both worlds.
Unfortunately, everything changes when she becomes a prisoner in one life and has to prove that her sanity hasn't been compromised. She has to make sure that posh Sabine lives a free and happy life while girl-next-door Sabine struggles in loony bin after her self-inflicted experiments were discovered by her parents.
So my thoughts? I was excited at first. I loved the sci-fi theme. I loved the idea of an alternate universe and being able to experience different life events. I liked both of Sabine's personalities at first but once the drama kicked in I just wanted it to be over.
I liked Ethan but I wasn't crazy about him. I resented the fact that the story quickly morphed to accomodate the romance between Ethan and Sabine. I also felt sorry for Dex. He was genuinely a nice guy. I could not blame him for wigging out after putting up with Sabine's crap. I wanted his character to be alright.
*Sigh* The end was okay, I guess. A little convenient for Sabine but it would have to do. This was very intriguing. Yes, I was irked by a lot of things but in the end I'd have to say this was a good book.
Thank you to Hachette Children's Books for allowing me to read this book.
This is the world that Sabine lives in. In one life she's a down-to-earth braniac with hard-working parents. In another, she's a rich and popular fashionista with a hot boyfriend and two older brothers. Sabine has got the best of both worlds.
Unfortunately, everything changes when she becomes a prisoner in one life and has to prove that her sanity hasn't been compromised. She has to make sure that posh Sabine lives a free and happy life while girl-next-door Sabine struggles in loony bin after her self-inflicted experiments were discovered by her parents.
So my thoughts? I was excited at first. I loved the sci-fi theme. I loved the idea of an alternate universe and being able to experience different life events. I liked both of Sabine's personalities at first but once the drama kicked in I just wanted it to be over.
I liked Ethan but I wasn't crazy about him. I resented the fact that the story quickly morphed to accomodate the romance between Ethan and Sabine. I also felt sorry for Dex. He was genuinely a nice guy. I could not blame him for wigging out after putting up with Sabine's crap. I wanted his character to be alright.
*Sigh* The end was okay, I guess. A little convenient for Sabine but it would have to do. This was very intriguing. Yes, I was irked by a lot of things but in the end I'd have to say this was a good book.
Thank you to Hachette Children's Books for allowing me to read this book.
Vay be! Bu kitabı bu kadar beğenebileceğimi gerçekten düşünmezdim.Ah Ethan ah Sabine. Her şey bu kadar sarpa sararken aynı zamanda bu kadar da güzelleşemezdi.
3.5 stars to be exact.
Harsher then my usual ratings but this book was nothing like what I thought it would be. Apart from the whole 'living two lives' thing. The entire story I waited for something to happen and it never did. I did love the main character Sabine though and the whole idea behind the story. :)
Harsher then my usual ratings but this book was nothing like what I thought it would be. Apart from the whole 'living two lives' thing. The entire story I waited for something to happen and it never did. I did love the main character Sabine though and the whole idea behind the story. :)
ya bu kitabı bana daha önce niye oku demedi kimse???!?!? kırgınım vallahi. kitaba daha kırgınım gerçi gecenin 3'ünde ağlattığı için.
bu kurgudan bir ikileme rahat olurdu ayrıca diye düşünüyorum. tadı damağımda kaldı:((neyse en azından böyle paralel evrenimsili bir konu işleyip de batırmadan olaylar bağlandığı için mutluyum.
bu kurgudan bir ikileme rahat olurdu ayrıca diye düşünüyorum. tadı damağımda kaldı:((neyse en azından böyle paralel evrenimsili bir konu işleyip de batırmadan olaylar bağlandığı için mutluyum.
Sabine has two lives. Every night at midnight, she "shifts" into her other life, back and forth so much that it makes her sick to her stomach. In one world, her life is blissfully perfect, but she's just not that happy there. In her other life, it's simple and quiet, unlike her other life completely. Even her siblings in the worlds are different.
So when Sabine breaks her arm in one world and in the other it's perfectly fine, she notices the first of many "glitches" to come. Glitches happen sometimes in her worlds, she'll see a man from her one life who has a different career and lifestyle in another. But this glitch is different, and so she starts on a course of testing the boundaries as far as she can. Medicating herself in one world, even self inflicting wounds to see if the body transfers them to the other world. But when Ethan, a friend of her Parents who regularly comes into their workplace, catches on to her drug stealing, her Parents also catch on in one world. But telling has never been an option for Sabine - anyone would be right to think she was mad - and whatever the outcome, she had to be sure that it didn't disrupt her plan. But her plans soon get ripped to shreds by her Parents when they catch on to the biggest reveal yet.
Read full review on Pretty Little Memoirs here.
So when Sabine breaks her arm in one world and in the other it's perfectly fine, she notices the first of many "glitches" to come. Glitches happen sometimes in her worlds, she'll see a man from her one life who has a different career and lifestyle in another. But this glitch is different, and so she starts on a course of testing the boundaries as far as she can. Medicating herself in one world, even self inflicting wounds to see if the body transfers them to the other world. But when Ethan, a friend of her Parents who regularly comes into their workplace, catches on to her drug stealing, her Parents also catch on in one world. But telling has never been an option for Sabine - anyone would be right to think she was mad - and whatever the outcome, she had to be sure that it didn't disrupt her plan. But her plans soon get ripped to shreds by her Parents when they catch on to the biggest reveal yet.
Read full review on Pretty Little Memoirs here.
Sabine lives two distinct lives, alternating between them at midnight each night.
Leading two lives isn't easy and Sabine cultivates different personas for each life. In Wellesley she is popular, rich, preppy and Harvard bound. In her Roxbury life she wears short skirts and eyeliner, and is apparently something of a rebel. In both lives she is a proficient liar, which is necessary to ensure that her two lives remain secret.
Sabine retains her memories from both lives regardless of which life she's in and, up until the start of the novel, Sabine's also always retained her physical body somehow: if she has tonsillitis in Roxbury then she has tonsillitis in Wellesley too.
However things change when Sabine breaks her wrist in Roxbury and finds her wrist unbroken in Wellesley. For the first time Sabine is faced with the possibility that she might be able to choose which life she wants on a full-time basis.
I liked Sabine as a narrator most of the time but I'm still not sure who she is.
Honestly I can't help thinking that two completely different personalities contributes to Sabine's problems; surely just being herself in both lives is far easier? Early on Sabine mentions that in one life she likes strawberries while in the other life she can't stand the taste. Is she naturally drawn to being rebellious in her Roxbury life and subservient in her Wellesley life? For me her Roxbury life seemed like her "real life" and her Wellesley life one she just floats through, putting on an act to fit the life.
Despite this Sabine decides pretty quickly which life she wants to keep. I thought a lot about how I'd cope with two lives while reading this book and came to the conclusion that it would be hell some of the time but that choosing would be impossible. How do you choose between two sets of parents, two lots of siblings, two lots of friends?
The romance aspect of the book was what let it down for me. In Wellesley Sabine has a longstanding boyfriend of two years, Dex, who's athletic, good-looking, popular and a perfect match for Sabine's Wellesley persona. Only she doesn't love him. In fact I'm not even sure she liked him. She's physically repulsed by the idea of kissing him for more than ten seconds, despite the fact they've somehow been together for half of high-school. Yet she perseveres just because her and Dex should be perfect for each other.
In Roxbury Sabine begins the novel single but over the course of the novel, which only spans a few weeks of both of her lives, she falls in love with somebody she just met. This, above all else, makes her question her choice of which life to keep, not her family or her beloved little sister. A boy she just met and knows virtually nothing about other than his first name. Seriously, does she ever even get his surname?
I loved the parallel life aspect of this book but the romance aspect and the ending was clichéd and predictable for me.
Leading two lives isn't easy and Sabine cultivates different personas for each life. In Wellesley she is popular, rich, preppy and Harvard bound. In her Roxbury life she wears short skirts and eyeliner, and is apparently something of a rebel. In both lives she is a proficient liar, which is necessary to ensure that her two lives remain secret.
Sabine retains her memories from both lives regardless of which life she's in and, up until the start of the novel, Sabine's also always retained her physical body somehow: if she has tonsillitis in Roxbury then she has tonsillitis in Wellesley too.
However things change when Sabine breaks her wrist in Roxbury and finds her wrist unbroken in Wellesley. For the first time Sabine is faced with the possibility that she might be able to choose which life she wants on a full-time basis.
I liked Sabine as a narrator most of the time but I'm still not sure who she is.
Honestly I can't help thinking that two completely different personalities contributes to Sabine's problems; surely just being herself in both lives is far easier? Early on Sabine mentions that in one life she likes strawberries while in the other life she can't stand the taste. Is she naturally drawn to being rebellious in her Roxbury life and subservient in her Wellesley life? For me her Roxbury life seemed like her "real life" and her Wellesley life one she just floats through, putting on an act to fit the life.
Despite this Sabine decides pretty quickly which life she wants to keep. I thought a lot about how I'd cope with two lives while reading this book and came to the conclusion that it would be hell some of the time but that choosing would be impossible. How do you choose between two sets of parents, two lots of siblings, two lots of friends?
The romance aspect of the book was what let it down for me. In Wellesley Sabine has a longstanding boyfriend of two years, Dex, who's athletic, good-looking, popular and a perfect match for Sabine's Wellesley persona. Only she doesn't love him. In fact I'm not even sure she liked him. She's physically repulsed by the idea of kissing him for more than ten seconds, despite the fact they've somehow been together for half of high-school. Yet she perseveres just because her and Dex should be perfect for each other.
In Roxbury Sabine begins the novel single but over the course of the novel, which only spans a few weeks of both of her lives, she falls in love with somebody she just met. This, above all else, makes her question her choice of which life to keep, not her family or her beloved little sister. A boy she just met and knows virtually nothing about other than his first name. Seriously, does she ever even get his surname?
I loved the parallel life aspect of this book but the romance aspect and the ending was clichéd and predictable for me.