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Janie Face To Face (2013)

by Caroline B. Cooney(Favorite Author)

3.5 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0385742061 (ISBN13: 9780385742061)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Delacorte Books for Young Readers

series

Janie Johnson

review 1: I have mixed feelings about this book. On the one hand it was a very good book. I enjoyed the story line and the suspense. On the other hand it drove me crazy that the timeline did not match up with the original. In 1990 we did NOT have cell phones. And I didn't know anyone with one until about 1998 when they borrowed their parents. They most certainly did not text or use the internet for social purposes. If the original story took place in 1990 and this book is 5 years later, there should have been consistencies. It would have been easy for Caroline B. Cooney to simply write the book as though it was 1995 instead of 24 years later. The other issue I had was that the end was fairly anticlimactic. I would have liked a more...I don't know...something more satisfying for the ... moreconclusion of a series I have been reading for a large part of my life. I felt disappointed, I guess. Authors need to stop writing books 20 years after their first super popular one if they aren't going to take the time to really formulate a good finale. Long story short, as a novel set apart from the series, I enjoyed it. I liked the characters, I wanted to know what was going to happen next, and I enjoyed the love story. But as a part of the series I was highly disappointed.
review 2: Wow. I'm giving this 2 stars mostly based on sentimentality. I'm going to keep my memories of the earlier book safe and try to pretend this never happened. I'm sure my literary taste has evolved in the last decade, but if the original was this pedantic and bland, I need to have a chat with my thirteen-year-old self. The plot was very thin and predictable while also being utterly ridiculous and unbelievable. Characters had zero dimension or depth. less

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