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Sandor Slash Ida (2001)

by Sara Kadefors(Favorite Author)

2.97 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

9170012830 (ISBN13: 9789170012839)

languge

English

genre

Romance

publisher

Månpocket

review 1: It’s hard to pinpoint how I exactly feel about this book. I liked Ida; her story was one of... not of constant improvement, but you could tell that was actually trying and when she hit rock bottom she picked herself up and tried to turn her life around. She's someone who flees in booze and parties, because her mom is depressed and doesn’t know how to take care of her. On the surface she seems like a girl who you can only hate, but the book actually made me feel for her. My main problem with this book was Sandor’s story: he is so desperate to fit in, to be one of the group, that he’s willing to sacrifice all parts of who he is. I just can’t stand that kind of behaviour. What made it worse was that the book made me feel like I should applaud his steps toward belong... moreing – while I felt that every step he took was a step backwards, I felt like I should have been applauding it like a step forwards. Obviously, this is a book about how Ida influences Sandor in becoming more popular and Sandor influences Ida in becoming more herself, and mostly, it works. Especially when Sandor makes a couple of choices at the end of the book, they really have met each other halfway. It took me a while to get used to the writing style, and I never actually started appreciating it. The book is a mixture of descriptions of their live and their actual chat or email conversations and I loved the way Kadefors used the language in the emails, but the style of the rest of the book just didn’t click with me. I did like the constant change in POV, though.Another 3.5 for me, though this time, because of my conflicted feelings, I’m rounding it down to a 3.
review 2: I know there is an English version of this book, but I have only read the Swedish one. I thought it was okay, but I definitely couldn't relate to Ida; a blonde, popular, drinking, quite mean girl. She meets a guy online. His name is Sandor and he's into ballet. What I like about the book is that they are so different from one another, but they still fall in love because they have one thing in common: they don't think they fit in. less

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