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Růžový Hotel (2012)

by Anna Stothard(Favorite Author)

3.21 of 5 Votes: 1

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

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review 1: This book was set in Los Angeles and had a great sense of place. The colours were very vivid, you could taste the salt in the air, and see the shiny people living there. A teenage girl, raised by her father in London, finds out that her mother has died. She steals her father's credit card and takes off to LA, arriving just in time for a debauched funeral. She joins in, which starts a chain of interaction with old lovers and friends of her mother. She slowly pieces together her mother's life and starts to come to terms with her grief. I liked how the author captured her sense of loss; through psychodelic desolate dreams and risk taking behaviour with an edge of self harm.
review 2: I loved this. The language was incredible, the descriptions of the main protag... moreonist's imagination and dream life were eery, fantastical and frightingly resonating. This is a romance in one sense, but in another it's a new take on the classic coming of age novel like Salinger's Catcher in the Rye - though it's definitely not a YA book. The descriptions of LA were nightmarish and at the same time attractive, and a million miles from what we're usually given. No celeberities, no glamour, the violence and squalor were there but not the essence of it. It was dystopian, but at the same time very real. I'm wittering. Basically, this was a great book and the only reason I haven't given it 5 stars is because I only give 5 to books I have read over and still really liked and I've just read this once. less

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