La Couronne verte
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782267019995 (226701999X)
Publish date: October 2nd 2008
Publisher: Christian Bourgois
Pages no: 225
Edition language: French
Category:
Young Adult,
Travel,
Mystery,
Coming Of Age,
Contemporary,
Thriller,
Mystery Thriller,
Crime,
Horror,
High School,
Suspense
This book was 100% not what I expected, and I don't mean that in a good way. When I read the summary I thought there was going to be some really great supernatural stuff going on, but then it was just some stupid girls going on spring break. Seriously, they got in a car with a strange old man (who t...
Although it wasn't all that exciting or well-written, the premise of this novella was unique and intriguing and could have been much better if there were a theme or a message, instead of a series of random cautionary-tale threads.
It went on and on and then was just over. I was expecting magic (the book references the Mayans, after all) and there was none. A disappointment.
Three Midwestern girls go on a spring break trip to Cancun. Predictably, bad things happen to them. And despite the bit on the cover about "mysterious Mayan ruins, where ancient myths flirt dangerously with present realities," the bad things have nothing to do with time travel, human sacrifice, or Q...
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