A review by trin_ney18
Afterworlds by Scott Westerfeld
3.0
Can Books Depress You?
I liked this book. I've never read anything like it and I sorta went into it not knowing what was going to happen. I didn't realize that we would be getting Darcy's story and then the story she wrote for herself. I thought it would be more fantasy starting to clash with reality. Kind of like Inkheart but instead of reading the words and them becoming true it would've been writing the words and them becoming true. I was wrong, big time. But I still really liked it's alternating universes. It was super cool.
So this book did make me cry. I was quite hysterical towards the end but that means it was good enough to get me invested in the characters. For future readers of this book, don't be scared by the size. I find myself constantly in reading slumps because the size of a book has scared me and I don't want to read it. I mean this book moved so fast that I could read about 100 pages a night. The book gives you an insight on what the publishing world is like and for aspiring writers it's really something that I would recommend reading so you can have an idea of what'll happen.
This book also really bothered me. I just didn't care for the writing style. There was a lot of usage of the term "as if" and you could just tell that it was a book written by someone. Very seldom did I find myself getting sucked into the worlds of the book and that's what I want. There was only once that I came away exhausted because of getting into it so much that it takes energy. Also, there were parts in which I preferred one story over another so I couldn't truly appreciate the chapter I was on because I wanted to get to the next one so quick.
Honestly, I don't know if this book depressed me or if I'm just tired from staying up reading it so late but either way I think I would recommend this to my friends.
I liked this book. I've never read anything like it and I sorta went into it not knowing what was going to happen. I didn't realize that we would be getting Darcy's story and then the story she wrote for herself. I thought it would be more fantasy starting to clash with reality. Kind of like Inkheart but instead of reading the words and them becoming true it would've been writing the words and them becoming true. I was wrong, big time. But I still really liked it's alternating universes. It was super cool.
So this book did make me cry. I was quite hysterical towards the end but that means it was good enough to get me invested in the characters. For future readers of this book, don't be scared by the size. I find myself constantly in reading slumps because the size of a book has scared me and I don't want to read it. I mean this book moved so fast that I could read about 100 pages a night. The book gives you an insight on what the publishing world is like and for aspiring writers it's really something that I would recommend reading so you can have an idea of what'll happen.
This book also really bothered me. I just didn't care for the writing style. There was a lot of usage of the term "as if" and you could just tell that it was a book written by someone. Very seldom did I find myself getting sucked into the worlds of the book and that's what I want. There was only once that I came away exhausted because of getting into it so much that it takes energy. Also, there were parts in which I preferred one story over another so I couldn't truly appreciate the chapter I was on because I wanted to get to the next one so quick.
Honestly, I don't know if this book depressed me or if I'm just tired from staying up reading it so late but either way I think I would recommend this to my friends.