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Summary: An excellent ending!
Review: A review by Kenya
Haunted be horrible nightmares of people screaming and of herself drowning, Molly Teague is apparently having many restless nights. Molly Teague happens to be the main character in the novel, "Dreadful Sorry". Molly has a terrible water phobia and will not go anywhere near getting into a swimming pool no matter how many people are watching. She lives in Brattleboro Heights, Ohio with her savvy mother while her recently remarried laidback father has moved to a tiny fishing town in Maine. After going to live with her stepfather for the summer, molly starts doing some research. It is through this research that she discovers that she is reliving the life of Clementine, a girl from the 1800s. The well-known childhood rhyme, "Oh My Darlin' Clementine" was incessantly playing through her mind and Molly never knew why until she realized that she is here for Clementine and Clementine is asking Molly to make all of Clementine's wrongs right again. Basically, Molly is reliving the life of Clementine.
The main thought or plot of this story is great and it was a good idea, but the story itself is too coincidental. For example, at a friend's party Molly is thrown into the pool by Jared, her best friend's cousin, and it just so happens to turn out that Jared is also reliving a past life. This life just happens to be the life of Hob, Clementine's admirer and Jared, coincidentally happens to admire Molly. Another coincidence that proves this story is excessively coincidental is when molly goes to live with her father and discovers that the house he lives in is that of Clementine's uncle whom she lived with. The author, Kathryn Reiss, is a fantastic writer and clearly shows this through her writing of this novel. Her use of words was perfect for the age group this novel was aimed at. I really enjoyed the way she interwove a childhood rhyme into a sort of eerie story.
The characters chosen were perfect for the parts they played. Personally, I think that the best character is the savvy stuck up mother. The way she puts the down Molly's father every chance she gets is a snap back to reality since it happens in many households in the real world. Also its quite funny how Kathryn Reiss has the stepmother thinking that her ex-husbands new wife is simply a dumb California blonde when she actually turns out to be a redhead and quite intone with the east coast way of life. One thing I didn't like is how it took forever and a day for molly to figure out what was going on with her nightmares and such when I as a reader figured it out quite a few chapters before her and we even shared the same point of view, first person. This made me think that Molly was stupid but that soon changed. She is tough and very stubborn. In Ohio she tried to attract attention to herself and laid around feeling sorry for herself after the swimming accident but that quickly changed after moving to Maine.
In parts, the story lagged a bit but soon picked up again. For instance, sometimes the story would be moving very slow and then something big would happen. It wasn't always slow, only for two chapters or so. Most of the time it would have a steady pace and then a couple big events would come along but it would soon go back to its original pace. I really enjoyed the way that Kathryn Reiss related some of the relationship details with the stepmother to real life. This being the way her mom doesn't like the stepmother, the way that Molly feels resentment to her stepmother at first, and the way the stepmother and Molly's father don't really show affection for one another in front of Molly. All in all I highly enjoyed this novel and even had a couple of laughs. The ending was excellent and everything turned out ok.
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Summary: Flashback: A Powerful Device, Coincidence: A Weak Aspect
Review: The novel Dreadful Sorry by Kathryn Reiss contains many literary devices that are present in the course of the story. The flashbacks the main character, Molly Teague, continuously has is an example of a literary device Reiss uses. The novel is improved by using this literary device because it keeps the reader interested throughout the entire story. However, excessive coincidence in the story lowers the overall quality of the novel. All in all, Reiss writes a novel that succeeds in some literary aspects but fails in others.
Throughout the novel Molly has flashbacks of her previous life. In her other life, she was a person named Clementine Horne. During the novel, the story switches from the life events of Molly Teague and Clementine Horne. Switching back from the life of Molly and her past life as Clementine adds another element to the story which improves the excitement of the novel. In short, this literary device greatly improves the novel because it adds another element that keeps the reader interested and intrigued.
In contrast to this high point of the story, excessive coincidence is an aspect in the novel that brings ridicule from critics. An example of coincidence is when Molly visits her father in Maine and her father lives in the same house where Clementine formerly lived during her life. Another example is Jared Bernstein who is an intimate friend of Molly. In his past life, he was a person named Hob. Miraculously, Hob was the love of Clementine and they were meant for each other. In summary, this aspect takes away from the realism of the novel.
Throughout the novel, high and poor quality devices clash with one another creating a novel with an average rating. However, different readers might have different opinions about the novel. This story is more directed toward teenagers that enjoy "soap opera" novels. One might be intrigued by the coincidences that occur and this might engage the reader even more. However, unbiased critics ridicule this aspect of the novel. The one literary device that keeps the reader interested is the way the novel switches from telling about the life of Molly to telling about the life of Clementine. The flashbacks Molly has about Clementine are important factors that entice a person to keep reading this book. In conclusion, Reiss writes a novel that displays different literary devices with great success but some poor aspects present in the story taint her overall work.
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Summary: Dreadful sorry
Review: "You nearly drowned." That's what they told Molly. She remembered being thrown into the pool. And she knew everyone thought it was a joke. But it wasn't. All she could think of as she sank to the bottom of the pool was that weird song... Oh my darlin' Oh my darlin' Oh my darlin',Clementine. You are lost and gone forever, Dreadful sorry Clementine. Now she is suddenly having really weird dreams of the ghost of Clementine and sometimes discovers herself thinking and acting like Clementine.
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Summary: It's a wonderful book
Review: I think this book is a wonderful book. It tells what some of us go through at her age and all sorts of ages. People be mean to others. Molly is having bad dreams. She is thrown into a pool. All she can think about is that song: Oh my darlin oh my darlin lost and gone forever dreadful sorry clemetine. I really do not recomend this book for anyone under 10 or 11. Note: This book has a heavy amount of swear words.
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Summary: Wow
Review: Dreadful Sorry is an awesome book. It almost gave me nightmarew. But it was so good I didn't want the book to end.
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Summary: GREAT BOOK
Review: MOLLY IS A TEENAGER WHO IS SCARED IS SWIMMING( OR WATER OF YOU WANT TO PUT IT THAT WAY) IT IS JUST A FEELING BUT WHEN JARED PUSHES HER IN A SWIMMING POOL SHE PROVES HER POINT. MOLLY IS ALSO HAVING VERY STRANGE DREAMS THAT ARE STARTING TO FREAK HER OUT. AND A SONG THAT KEEPS REPLAYING IN HER HEAD (THE CLEMENTINE SONG) CLEMENTINME SEEMS TO HAUNT HER AND IS DRIVING HER NUTS. SHE HAS TO FIND THE ANSWER TO ALL HER PROBLEMS BEFORE THEY GET WORSE. IF YOU LIKE MURDER MYSTERIES AND STUFF LIKE THAT THIS IS YOU BOOK. YOU WON'T BE ABLE TO PUT IT DOWN!
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Summary: Get this book!
Review: I just loved this book! After reading Dreadful Sorry I feel in love with the author Kathyrn Reiss who write this book. She is an amazing author and this book is also amazing. I highly recommend it.
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Summary: Nothing Dreadful Here!
Review: This book was excellent. I loved every minute of it. it's impossible to put down. I got caught up in the mystery of what happened to Clementine and the thrilling moments when we begin to discover it. I was just as caught up in the romance as well . I can't say a bad thing about this book. If your a fan of horror and ghosts stories you definitly must read it. But if your a fan of romance you should read it too.
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Summary: best book ive ever read
Review: molly is a girl haunted by dreams of long hallways and is seeing another girls face in her mirror... plauqued with a fear of water she runs from her lessons and meets her friends cousin Jared ...memories open and when she is tossed in water and see's things she runs to her fathers house in maineand suddenly relizes she is now living in the house that is in her dreams... now seeing visions and "walking"in a ghosts shoes molly learns that by listening and searching her mind and sorondings for answers she will get the answers that she needs. a real thriller , once you read the first chapter you cant put it down also try..Time Windows and The Glass House People also by Katheryn Reiss
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Summary: This is a great book, I read it 3 times & I hate to read.
Review: There is no way I can really explain it, you just have to read it. It is such a wonderful book if you don't read it you're missing out on a great experience. So I recommend you read it.
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