by Tara Altebrando
This book is pretty interesting and not bad. Sometime I wonder what is like to meet a person who a freak in circus or whatever. When I said "freak", I mean like a person you have never seen before. A person you doesn't look like normal people. To me I wouldn't care and I wouldn't call them freak. Th...
Dreamland Social Club is the perfect mix of local history and fantasy. I could smell and taste Coney Island in an entirely new way. Even recognized some of the Anchor/Rudy references. Because of the great caste of fully developed characters and a sweet love story that pulls at the heart strings, I'm...
I was slightly hesitant when going into Dreamland Social Club; Having just finished up two amazing contemporaries, I knew that Dreamland Social Club was going to have to be spectacular for me to like it, and it was just that – spectacular.Dreamland Social Club is weird and quirky and kooky, and I lo...
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First off, I love the cover of Dreamland Social Club. It's bright, eye-catching, and features a mermaid... It's kind of hard not to notice it, whether it's the kind of book you'd normally pick up or not. I'll be honest, I bought it based solely on my positive response to the cover, without knowing m...
I think this book may have been the genesis for the Beach Reads idea. I took one look at the cover, with it's bright colors, boardwalk and mermaid, and I had this yearning to be at the beach. (Minus the boardwalk craziness, though a mermaid would be cool. But still; you get what I'm saying.) It s...
I adored the setting in //Dreamland Social Club//. I have never been to Coney Island but I always imagined it to be magical and this book shows us that it is in fact very magical. Aside from the setting the family dynamics in the novel were quite interesting. They are a family on the brink of disast...
Jane comes to Coney with her dad and brother because the kids have inherited their grandfather's house. Being there brings back stories her mother told her before her death. Jane is eager to find out who she is by trying to learn more about her mother's life and about Coney. She explores with a beau...
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