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Sarah Crossan

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15 verk 2,441 medlemmar 145 recensioner

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Sarah Crossan grew up in Ireland and England. She graduated with a degree in philosophy and literature before training as an English and drama teacher at Cambridge University. She also completed her Masters in creative writing at the University of Warwick. In 2010, she received an Edward Albee visa mer Fellowship for writing. She taught English for many years before deciding to writing fulltime. Her teen novels include Breathe, The Weight of Water, Resist: Breathe 2, Apple and Rain, and One. She was awarded The Bookseller's 2016 YA Book Prize as well as the CILIP Carnegie Medal for her novel, One. (Bowker Author Biography) visa färre

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Verk av Sarah Crossan

Breathe (2012) 707 exemplar
One (2015) 395 exemplar
The Weight of Water (2012) 347 exemplar
Resist (2013) 247 exemplar
Moonrise (2017) 193 exemplar
Apple and Rain (2014) 152 exemplar
Here Is the Beehive (2020) 134 exemplar
We Come Apart (2017) 126 exemplar
Toffee (2019) 119 exemplar
Epic Firsts Teen Sampler (2012) 8 exemplar
Tippi i ja (2020) 2 exemplar
Toffee (2023) 2 exemplar
Hey, Zoey 2 exemplar
Toffi (2021) 1 exemplar

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Representation: Side Black character
Trigger warnings: Bullying, near death experience

6/10, usually I enjoy verse novels but I didn't enjoy this one which was a massive shame. All the characters were quite flat, the main character wasn't really that complex but I still enjoyed reading about her anyway. The story is that Kasienka immigrated from Poland to England just to find her father which she found eventually. Further on the story is about Kasienka's new life, there was a plot point about racism but it just mentions it and then brushes it under the rug. The only characteristics she had was being smart, being bullied, having a sister called Briony (who almost died), and being a national level swimmer (her father contributed to this), but other than that she was quite flat.

She developed a romantic attraction to a Black person called William but he was quite flat as well and I didn't feel anything for Kasienka and William. The ending was when Kasienka just won a competition and that's it. I would've preferred if this novel was written in prose rather than verse, it would've impacted me more. If you like a novel about immigration try Refugee by Alan Gratz or Inside Out and Back Again by Thanhhà Lại instead of this.
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Law_Books600 | 19 andra recensioner | Nov 3, 2023 |
7/10, now that I look back this book was enjoyable at times but it was mostly a monotonous dystopian snoozefest but at least there were some action scenes and other interesting moments that helped me to keep reading this book. There were three characters who probably shouldn't even be called characters but rather they should be called archetypes. Quinn was just a rich boy and Bea and Alina were just the rebellious strong protagonists and led a rebellion against the classic evil oppressive government but why would they suck all the air out just for the few rich people to live, I don't really know. The story begins with Bea and Alina somehow escaping the Pod but I don't know how they escaped since it's supposed to be impossible to escape the Pod and it also mentions some science jargon about the Pod giving its population extra oxygen so they get used to it however some cities outside it can survive on less oxygen which was extremely confusing and there was also one person who made her own oxygen pack to live outside the Pod which was perplexing to me as well. A few hundred sluggish pages later I finally got to the ending where the three main characters fight against the city and then it ends in a cliffhanger, how underwhelming. I would like to read the second book in the series however I highly doubt that my library would get it. If you like dystopian books this one is for you.… (mer)
 
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Law_Books600 | 56 andra recensioner | Nov 3, 2023 |
Beautifully written
 
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kakadoo202 | 5 andra recensioner | Apr 15, 2023 |
 
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Statistik

Verk
15
Medlemmar
2,441
Popularitet
#10,512
Betyg
½ 3.7
Recensioner
145
ISBN
141
Språk
12

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