![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I believe it might be targeted at the younger end of the YA age range. I have to admit there were several cool twists but it simply couldn’t capture my attention. However, it wasn’t that which ultimately led me to be disappointed. I can safely say I’m more-than-average morbid and still something bothered me about it. It’s definitely easy to read and you would expect the story to be right up my alley, but something felt…off…about it. As if that isn’t bad enough, the Institution decides to make things a tad more interesting: whoever is chosen has to glean the other… A promising story but…Īlthough I quite like the premise and the writing is certainly not bad, I couldn’t get drawn in to this story. ![]() The two main characters of the book are unwillingly selected to become Scythe apprentices. The Scythes obey very strict rules and they are the only ones who can bring about “true death” still. However, this would of course create problems with population sizes so it was decided that a new Institution would be created to keep things in balance. People simply reset themselves or can easily be revived. Scythe is a futuristic utopian (although I would go for dystopian) world in which humankind has conquered death. ![]()
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![]() ![]() She and her husband spend the next ten years struggling to pay for an expensive replacement, and Mathilde’s beauty fades as she experiences the hardships of poverty. Mathilde is a huge success at the ball but disaster strikes when she loses the necklace during the carriage ride home. Mathilde finally has a chance to live her dreams when she and her husband receive an invitation to a party from the Minister of Education, and she borrows a diamond necklace from her friend Jeanne Forestier in order to look her best at the party. A remarkably beautiful woman, Mathilde is perpetually dissatisfied with her lot in life, constantly dreaming of the glamour and riches to which she feels her beauty entitles her. ![]() Mathilde Loisel is the daughter of a middle-class family and is married to M. ![]() ![]() Colin’s mom was the NYFD’s doctor and Colin recounts her experience on the ground the day of the 9/11 attacks. The most chilling, impactful story he told, however, was one that centred around his mother. Bart’s had to be one of my favourites, and the anger in Colin’s voice on the audiobook as he describes what happened to him at the Google offices had me laughing out loud. ![]() I think his surfing story with Jimmy Buffet in St. ![]() I was so excited when he announced he would be writing a book that I preordered it on Audible as soon as it became available to me.Ī Very Punchable Face did not disappoint: Colin tells tales of his childhood, of his time as a SNL writer and everything in between. I enjoy his banter on Weekend Update with Michael Che, and he has written some of the funniest sketches in the last decade. That being said, this review won’t be very long, but what it will be is glowing.Ĭolin Jost, Head Writer of Saturday Night Live, has been a favourite of mine in recent years. I’m a little annoyed at myself for not writing a review for A Very Punchable Face right after I read it last summer, but I guess I was busy with other things (mom life during a pandemic! Who knew it would be busy?) and didn’t get around to it. ![]() ![]() ![]() They're coming for your little girl, Jack. When a stranger who has been struck by lightning dies in Jack's arms, a child's voice comes from the man's smoldering body to issue a warning: At first, the small town appears to be the perfect place to reconnect with his family and to cure his troubled conscience, but Jack soon discovers he has left one nightmare only to walk into another. ![]() Monday night was pretty sleepless.)Įmotionally scarred from a car accident in which a little girl was killed, Jack Tremont moves his family from Southern California to Prescott City in the quiet mountains of Western Maryland. Every time I closed my eyes all I could see was the ghostly image of the cover. (After the book blast on Monday where I had to check on all the blogs, seeing the cover that many times gave me nightmares. Seriously, my skin crawled and goose pimpled when I opened the email. ![]() |