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A review by lililia
The Amethyst Child by Sarah Singleton
4.0
What a nice venture out of my comfort zone! I'm usually a dystopian-ish bookie (some realistic contemporaries)
I originally was attracted to this book due to the cover (shiny purple? yes please!), but when I took a glance at the blurb, I discovered it was CULTish. I don't do cult books. Honestly. I'm creeped out by them. They have this scary aura. This one kinda did as well. Dark colour scheme? (Black & Purple cover)
My class library had this book and it seemed so mysterious, I almost felt guilty borrowing this beauty.
"Cult & Contemporary?" I read, my face blank, my mind blank, I was completely blank, dumbfounded.
Disclaimer: It isn't a realistic contemporary.
The first chapter was enough to absorb me into it. It was executed almost-perfectly (except, nothing is perfect). Then came the double-time-period thing and WOAHHH. Even more did I invest myself in this wondrous book. 'cept I had lots of homework which interfered which the reading experience. Unpredictable throughout, brimming with its excellent suspense.
Then came the blooming friendship between Dowdie & Amber, learning about the Community, learning to love it. All went well until... the romance.
Oh, the horrible romance. At first, Amber seemed totally uninterested in her love interest. Moment she reaches home, she swoons. Wow. Even their meeting was awkward. What type of teen girl just follows a sixteen-year-old boy who she barely even knows, back to his home?
It was too obvious that the author was not a teen. It was anything but an adoloscent's voice. It could have been a ten-year old or a 30-year old person. The voice was yet too immature yet mature.
Also, emo's are cool?? Emos are often considered "the outcasts within the cliques" so why does it seem like they're revered dark-clothed kids?
I originally was attracted to this book due to the cover (shiny purple? yes please!), but when I took a glance at the blurb, I discovered it was CULTish. I don't do cult books. Honestly. I'm creeped out by them. They have this scary aura. This one kinda did as well. Dark colour scheme? (Black & Purple cover)
My class library had this book and it seemed so mysterious, I almost felt guilty borrowing this beauty.
"Cult & Contemporary?" I read, my face blank, my mind blank, I was completely blank, dumbfounded.
Disclaimer: It isn't a realistic contemporary.
The first chapter was enough to absorb me into it. It was executed almost-perfectly (except, nothing is perfect). Then came the double-time-period thing and WOAHHH. Even more did I invest myself in this wondrous book. 'cept I had lots of homework which interfered which the reading experience. Unpredictable throughout, brimming with its excellent suspense.
Then came the blooming friendship between Dowdie & Amber, learning about the Community, learning to love it. All went well until... the romance.
Oh, the horrible romance. At first, Amber seemed totally uninterested in her love interest. Moment she reaches home, she swoons. Wow. Even their meeting was awkward. What type of teen girl just follows a sixteen-year-old boy who she barely even knows, back to his home?
It was too obvious that the author was not a teen. It was anything but an adoloscent's voice. It could have been a ten-year old or a 30-year old person. The voice was yet too immature yet mature.
Also, emo's are cool?? Emos are often considered "the outcasts within the cliques" so why does it seem like they're revered dark-clothed kids?