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Girl, Hero (2008)

by Carrie Jones(Favorite Author)

3.72 of 5 Votes: 4

ISBN

0738710512 (ISBN13: 9780738710518)

languge

English

genre

Young Adult Fantasy & Science Fiction

publisher

Flux

review 1: I enjoyed this book, but it took awhile to get going. It’s a pretty fast read though. The characters are all well-developed for the most part, although it can be hard to keep track of them at times. There are a lot of elements at work here, but the author makes them work, and mostly keeps them from getting too confusing. The main character, Liliana, is easy to like, and you really feel for what she’s going through.Liliana’s budding romance with Paolo is, for the record, adorable.But I’m not a fan of the title. “Girl, Hero”? Is it up to debate whether girls can be heroes? Maybe 50 years ago, but now I think we’re a bit beyond that. Why not just call it “Hero”? Or, better yet, “Saddle Up,” which is a line Lilianna quotes to herself over and over in the ... morebook. Anyway, they could have done better.I have some major problems with the design of this book. Mainly, the copyright information is directly facing the first chapter, and it’s really distracting. I could maybe excuse this if they were trying to conserve pages, but there’s a completely superfluous half-title page before the title page. They could have easily moved stuff around to accommodate the copyright page somewhere else, but instead it just looks messy and amateurish.The cover itself, however, is good. The shadow of the cowboy behind her looks great, and totally conveys how Liliana is looking to a classic icon for strength, in her own way.
review 2: This book is amazing.I love the spunky protagonist. She’s funny, smart, and so devoted to the things she does. She’s a real feminist, a real heroine, or trying to become one, anyway. Lily thinks that she can help everyone just like John Wayne, this dead guy whom she writes woeful letters to. What’s amazing is that it’s so honest and perceptive. It’s not just guys who want to save the day. Girls want to sweep into someone’s life and make a difference. It’s just a really different look into such a powerful protagonist. She will really inspire you. Despite her power as a character, there are moments in the book about what she has to go through that will truly touch her. She addresses individualism and how her views on her best friend changes after Nicole’s obsession with popularity. She can ditch her close-minded best friend with such guts that it amazes me. All those years of friendship down the drain in a matter of seconds. But it doesn’t make Lily heartless. In fact, you’ll be rooting for her the entire time. There’s also other stuff about embarrassing fathers and neglectful mothers. Her mom’s an exact portrayal of a lonely woman seeking love in the wrong places with a wrong man. It’s heartbreaking, because there will always be divorced or single women out there who still believe that life isn’t full until a man—just one damn man—is present in their life. It’s a depressing thought. I’ll all for feminism and individualism. less

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