Helpful Score: 1
Just so readers are aware, this book states that it's a novel, but in reality it's a YA picture book. I was skeptical at first when I picked this book up at a local bargain outlet. I was thinking to myself, "What a cool concept, a romance novel shown in pictures, but do I really want to pay for a picture book?". I set the book down, not two weeks later I was buying the same book for twice as much online. Regretting that I didn't buy the book when I had the chance.
This book was actually amazing. It takes longer to "read" than I would have expected. I found that I was examining every photo and illustration to get more information about the modern romance of Gloria, a piano prodigy under the thumb of her overprotective father and Francisco, the son of a well known wine maker.
This book was actually amazing. It takes longer to "read" than I would have expected. I found that I was examining every photo and illustration to get more information about the modern romance of Gloria, a piano prodigy under the thumb of her overprotective father and Francisco, the son of a well known wine maker.
This book can be "read" in under 30 minutes.
Laid out in a graphic style, this story is uniquely told through photographs, newspaper clippings, momentos, and instant message chats. It is an interesting and different way to tell a story, and that's what drew me to this book.
Unfortunately, the story that is being told is terrible.
Two self-indulgent teenagers, one a young piano virtuoso and the other a South American immigrant, meet and fall in love. The story, from start-to-finish, is how they both completely ruin their lives because they "love" each other so much.
Perhaps this is what romance looks like to 16-year-olds, but it's not romance, it's a waste of time and effort. Even if that is only 30 minutes.
Laid out in a graphic style, this story is uniquely told through photographs, newspaper clippings, momentos, and instant message chats. It is an interesting and different way to tell a story, and that's what drew me to this book.
Unfortunately, the story that is being told is terrible.
Two self-indulgent teenagers, one a young piano virtuoso and the other a South American immigrant, meet and fall in love. The story, from start-to-finish, is how they both completely ruin their lives because they "love" each other so much.
Perhaps this is what romance looks like to 16-year-olds, but it's not romance, it's a waste of time and effort. Even if that is only 30 minutes.
