Seventeen-year-old Ginny Blackstone precipitously travels from her home in New Jersey to London when she receives a message from an unknown man telling her he has the letters that were stolen just before she completed a series of mysterious tasks assigned by her now dead aunt, an artist.
Rating: ★★☆☆☆ – it was ok
Genre: young adult fiction, young adult romance, ya contemporary
Pros: fast read, picturesque
Cons: annoying romance, out-of-control hormones
This was an extremely easy read; once I actually sat down to read instead of grabbing the book here and there in-between things I breezed right through it.
I would recommend this book to:
- people who really liked the first book
- younger readers of YA novels
- people who like the YA Romance genre
I didn’t actually fall into any of those categories, but I hate to leave a series unfinished and I didn’t NOT like the first book. So since I had this one on my list already and I wanted something aggressively contemporary to cleanse the palate after a classic novel….
I really think this book could have been improved by removing the romantic sub-plot. In fact, I’d hardly call it sub-plot, it tended to take over everything. I genuinely can’t remember the first book being like that… Either it wasn’t or I blocked all the romantic crap from my memory so it just seems like it wasn’t.
My biggest complaint is that Ginny needed serious help controlling her hormones. At one points she literally SWOONS! Like…excuse me??? What??????
Other than that, the book isn’t actually bad. It’s not good either. The first was better. But it isn’t a bad book. Someone pointed out to me that they think this is a book best enjoyed by people who are actually the characters age (18) or younger, and I think that’s probably true.
Oh, I do want to warn any British readers: You know that thing that happens when you watch American shows about British people and you are really confused because Americans have this really romantic and strangely homogeneous idea of what exactly “British” means? That’s going to happen a lot in this book.
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