Being Sloane Jacobs (Audio)
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Lauren Morrill
ISBN:
9780804123907 (080412390X)
Publish date: January 7th 2014
Publisher: Listening Library (Audio)
Edition language: English
Category:
Young Adult,
Teen,
Realistic Fiction,
Romance,
Family,
Contemporary,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Sports And Games,
Sports,
Hockey,
Young Adult Contemporary
No, no, NO. This was supposed to be a Triple Win for me.There are two Sloane Jacobs. One of them is an ice-skater... The other one plays hockey...They are unhappy with their lives and when they meet, decide to do a Parent Trap/The Pauper and The Prince thing.Starts OK, but when they meet, they have ...
I don't think any book that is so steeped in sports can get any more charming than Being Sloane Jacobs! After I closed that book, I was just sitting there with a silly grin on my face. No kidding. I wanted to hug the book to sleep. It was that adorable. And yet I totally got into the sports parts. T...
This book was just cute. It is The Parent Trap cute. Lindsay Lohan-before-she-became-a-coke-addict cute. There is not much substance to the story or its characters, it is generic, it is inoffensive, but damned if I didn't have a huge grin on my face as I was reading it. It is a feel-good book. If y...
This review and others are posted at Inspiring Insomnia.One of the most important aspects of a dual narrative novel should be creating and maintaining unique voices for the narrators. Being Sloane Jacobs failed by this count, and it made it even harder to enjoy this lightweight story. It may as wel...
By now, you’ve probably heard my rant about packaged books. But occasionally, on very rare occasions, I do indulge in them. This was one of those books. It involved figure skating, you guys. That in itself almost guaranteed that I would read it. However, the whole sport of figure skating was ...