Originally published at Gypsy ReviewsI received an eARC from the publisher, thank you!To be perfectly honest (just as the title of the book says), I made a mistake when I requested this book on Edelweiss. I was looking through the Harper releases very early and requesting a bunch of them (and subseq...
Again, Sonya Sones brings a great novel in the form of poetry. What My Girlfriend Doesn’t Know is the sequel to Sones’ free-verse novel What My Mother Doesn’t Know, and was a great addition to the first book.It was a little weird going from book one to this book because of the POV switch from Sophie...
What really struck a chord with me in this book is that it’s a free-verse novel. I feel that Sones’ decision to write this novel in verse instead of prose makes it stand out from other young adult novels that might deal with similar characters and situations.Because of the nature of poetry, there wa...
I went into One of Those Hideous Books Where the Mother Dies by Sonya Sones biasedly because I’ve read and liked other novels by Sonya Sones before. As far as novels-in-verse go, her books are short, sweet, to the point, and surprisingly thorough in their low page numbers. One of Those Hideous Books...
I was fourteen years old when I found this book hiding on the shelves of my small-town library. My mother had had a psychotic break when I was six weeks old, was diagnosed with schizophrenia and institutionalized. For as long as I could remember, I had been tiptoeing around the gaping hole in my lif...
This book is idealistic for a young age group who is looking to cope with a sudden change in the family dynamics. Many people tend to forget the ones who are touched by tragedy, and siblings are often overlooked when tragedy or illness strikes the family. The story seemed a bit rushed, but overall,...
I read this book for National Banned Book week (September 24th - October 1st). I saw the advertisement in Half Price Books when I visited to buy some books for a school project. I was a little reluctant to read this book due to the poetry genre, but I can gladly say I am very happy to have picked ...
Not nearly as cleaver as the first book in the series. And unlike "What My Mother...", this story seemed very far-fetched and unrealistic. However, it did have some great scenes and some of the poetry was very smart and funny.
I've loved everything I've ever read by Sonya Sones, but I really do think that this, her first book, is her best. It's semi-autobiographic, and it shows in the emotional intensity and honesty of the poems. It's a beautiful work, so much so that I don't really feel like there's anything I can say ab...
Exactly what it says on the tin. A collection of a whole lot of very, very short, creepy stories. Some of them are, indeed, very creepy. Neil Gaiman's, for example, and the Lemony Snicket story. Some of them are a little more silly, intentionally and unintentionally. It's about 125 pages, and the st...
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