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Grace (2010)

by Elizabeth Scott(Favorite Author)

3.37 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

0525422064 (ISBN13: 9780525422068)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Dutton Children's

review 1: This book blew my mind. I couldn't put it down and I finished it in one setting because aside from a beautiful cover, this book offered me a glimpse into a lifestyle that I have always wondered about: suicide bombers. How does it feel to be raised to die for a cause? The interesting this about this book is that is accomplishes a goal that the movie The Kingdom accomplishes... It shows us that no matter how much we hate or fear our enemy, we kill and they kill so how are the two any different? The bodies pile up and each side blames the other but who is really to blame. Grace is raised to believe that she must kill herself for a greater cause and take as many others from the other side with her as possible. She decides she can't kill herself, but there are terrible conseque... morences to her actions still because of the hate she has learned since she was a child. This book made me think about how we promote the armed forces to our children and young adults, wanting them to serve our country, aka potentially die for our cause as well. Is it all really any different once we total the bodies on both sides?
review 2: I thought that this book was really interesting, but also really awkward. It is about a girl named Grace who is a "Angel of Death". She was raised so that when the time came, she would kill the person that she was assigned to kill and herself. At the last moment she decides that she doesn't want to die and blows up the bomb once she is far enough away to not get hurt. Then she is on the run and has to leave the city before the government can catch up to her, and her own community doesn't want her back because she did not kill herself "for the land" like she was supposed to. It was really awkwardly written because the author will have the shortest sentences ever and she also goes from the past to the present in the same paragraph. It was an interesting read, but I only bought it because borders was going out of business and everything was on sale. The cover is what made me interesting in the story. I also thought that it was very short, it was double spaced and the margins were almost an inch and a half in. less

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