Book Reviews

One Moment, One Morning:

When I pick out a new book I always read the summary to get an idea of what it is about. Then if it sounds interesting I take it home and start reading it. And most of the time I am thrown for a twist by the way the book is actually written. With One Moment, One Morning, it was the same story. It was easy for the first couple of pages, but I was soon, once again, thrown for a twist with the writing style. In the book there are three main characters and because of that it is written from three different perspectives—seen through the eyes of the main characters.

          Another challenging part of the book was some of the diction. The story takes place near London and there they use certain words and do certain things (like take the train everywhere) that we don’t use here. That sometimes made it harder to understand what they were talking about.

          This book is a very sad story about this father dying one morning on the train. The whole story goes on about how it changes the lives of the people that knew and loved him (his wife and kids, his wife’s best friend and her boyfriend) and another passenger that sat across from him on the train the morning he died.

          I really liked this book. It was a good story and had a good message behind. It also makes you think and reflect on your own life and how some lives get cut too short sometimes.

The Violets of March:

Usually, the books I read are teen drama or love stories. I also really like reading books that have been made into movies. When my aunt gave me this book, I was a little skeptical about it because I thought it would be some book that older women like to read. I wasn’t very open minded about the type of story it would be. At first, it didn’t really catch my interest. That definitely didn’t help my already negative thoughts towards the book.

          As I kept reading on, though, it got a lot better and became much more interesting. The story got more exciting and intense. I realized that the book was a love story with a twist. A puzzling mystery also came about the story. I really like that it wasn’t a typical story where you know in the first seen that the two main characters are going to get married.

          This book was about a girl who was getting divorced and decided to take a trip to see her aunt. While she was there, she found a secret diary. As she read it she tried to figure out who it belonged to. She kept coming across clues, but time starts running out when the person who is helping her the most starts to die.

          Reading this book has opened my eyes to read different types of books. Some of the vocabulary used was a little tricky, but for the most part it wasn’t a horribly hard book to read. One thing I have learned from reading this book is to not judge a book by its cover…or by its first couple of pages. A lot of the time, it gets better!

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