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Cinnamon Rain (2012)

by Emma Cameron(Favorite Author)

3.61 of 5 Votes: 5

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English

genre

Romance

publisher

Walker Books Asutralia

review 1: This book was worth it because it only consumed 3 hours of my time. There was one aspect of the entire book I enjoyed; the story is told by three friends and the book was narrated by three individuals which enhanced the uniqueness of the characters. My biggest problem with the story was I felt you didn't get enough of the teens stories. They just ended without actually given closure to their stories or the book as a whole. However when I looked at the actual book, I discovered that the stories were told in verse, which is mostly likely why I felt they were incomplete. If you are interested in the premise of story, I would recommend reading the book versus listening to it. I also think this may be a good book for reluctant readers that are looking for a book with more matu... morere plots.
review 2: Out of This Place is the first verse-written novel I’ve ever read! Verse novels have never held much interest for me. I like poetry, I like novels, but I could never envision how an author could create and entire story and meaning just from a few poetry written perspectives. I think I understand a bit better now.Cameron is amazing at building and creating emotion! Her three main characters: Luke, Casey, and Bongo/David are each so different from each other but it was interesting to get to see into each of their lives to fully understand what was going on in their lives. I didn’t understand some of the cultural things going on in the text like how the schooling system works and if teen homelessness really is a trend in Australia but it didn’t distract me from the work. I liked reading and learning about these characters as they yearned to escape, interested to see what would happen next in their lives.Casey and Bongo’s narratives were by far the most interesting whereas Luke’s was a bit dull. While Luke is a sad character who’s family works in small-talk he’s a bit of a male Mary-Sue always doing the right thing and pining over Casey who will never love him in the way he wants, it got annoying after awhile.I liked to Casey’s perspective because she spoke of her feelings of hurt and loneliness, being a love child and forcing her parents to get married at a young age. Feeling unwanted and having her strict father keep her at home at all times Casey plans for her own escape where she can work a job she wants and live a life where she is happy.Bongo was also an interesting character, a teenager who’s mother is a drug addict and is beaten by his step-dad. Wanting to keep in contact with his half-brother David who was taken away by social services and unable to handle the stress of his home life Bongo goes to the streets to try and find himself.My favourite character who I believe is the most underrated is Casey’s dad. While he is strict he’s a very interesting character when analyzed. His strictness is caused from having Casey as a teen/young man (it isn’t specified). He loves his daughter but is afraid she’ll get pregnant and have to rush into adulthood like he did. I feel he’s a character that most readers will judge harshly but I find him so interesting!While Out of This Place is a great coming-of-age story I would have liked a little more back story and a little more detail in some parts. At times it seemed like the narration jumped around to quickly, but I’m not sure if that’s a typical way verse-novels are set up.Out of This Place is a great novel! I feel like lovers of verse-novels would love it as well as lovers of Contemporary and a good coming-of-age story! less

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