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Summary: Allie's All Time Awesome Review
Review: I think that Amandine by adele Griffin is an exellent book. It tells how tough it is to move from one school to the next and having to worry about making new friends and fitting in.Sometimes in the process we don't always make the right choices. thats what happens to Delia in Amandine. when Delia,an only child, moves from the city to James DeWolf High School her parents constantly badger her on making new friend.And as soon as Delia meets Amandine her parents encourage her to invite her over.When Amandine does finaly come over things take a turn for the worst. Delia is sucked into amandines world of lies.and when Delia tries to get out Amandine makes a move that could hurt Delias entire family and expose the real truth about Delia.
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Summary: Amandine
Review: I think that Amandine by adele Griffin is an exellent book. It tells how tough it is to move from one school to the next and having to worry about making new friends and fitting in.Sometimes in the process we don't always make the right choices. thats what happens to Delia in Amandine. when Delia,an only child, moves from the city to James DeWolf High School her parents constantly badger her on making new friend.And as soon as Delia meets Amandine her parents encourage her to invite her over.When Amandine does finaly come over things take a turn for the worst. Delia is sucked into amandines world of lies.and when Delia tries to get out Amandine makes a move that could hurt Delias entire family and expose the real truth about Delia.
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Summary: SCARY! (honestly, this book gave me the heeby-jeebies!)
Review: I'll be brief and tell you that this book was really intriguing and well-crafted--however the ideas in it were a little creepy. Our main character, Delia, has just moved to a small town. She doesn't fit in well at school, and feels as if she is a disapointment to her charming and popular parents. One afternoon, she meets Amandine, a strange, artistic girl waiting for her father afterschool. Amandine offers Delia a chance to see her drawings of the "Ugliest Things you ever saw"...for money. Delia refuses and they are friends ever on out. (Not your average friendship, eh?)However, Delia is dragged into the dramatic world of Amandine; a girl who does not have a self, rather, many characters of whom she plays. Amandine is an actress, an artist, and--sadistic? When Delia realizes the true Amandine is not at all the nice character that she plays when she is with Delia, she flees her friendship thinking that everything will be all right. However, the last thing anyone needs is to be on the wrong side of Amandine...a lesson Delia learns very quickly. Scary. I wouldn't read it again. This book shines with bitter revenge, false friendship, and the unbalanced human mind. yet, the writing was very good and if you are into the dark, vampiry side of human nature, this is the book for you.
Happy (or unhappy, I suppose w/ this book) reading! -lia
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Summary: Okay Book, With A Twist
Review: If you love reading books that keep you wondering what's coming, even when you've read the reviews, you'll love this book. It keeps you wondering the entire time..."What's so bad about Amandine?" (if you've ever heard the frog in the boiling pot expression this is definatly a time when it shows you how that is very true)The whole time things that are wrong with Amandine are being exposed to you and you seem to never notice it, untill you think back on what you just read. I recommend this book, but its a one day read...you can't put it down!
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Summary: Pure Entertainment
Review: Pure Entertainment
I read this book in a couple of hours, it moves fast, I really liked it. The writing is tense and magnetic. I'm kind of doubtful the gist of it meant to concentrate as a "friendship genre" book --whatever that means-- since Amandine is the center of her story, and it's really how she manipulates and seduces the friend's dad. But it's not about a real girl-girl friendship at all, or about the other girl, Delia's "issues." Actually, its themes kind of reminded me of "American Beauty."
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Summary: WOW
Review: This book is an amazing story about the dark side of human nature that we typically keep hidden from that world. All of us have a little Amandine and a little delia in us somewhere its alittle like the two oppisite sides of the spectrum. You have Amandine, the little devil on your sholder and then you have Delia who is more like the angel only she is being pulled every which way and must learn to be stronger. This is a great analogy to the way things are in real life, the bad always seems to prevail until the good can find its voice. I really suggest this book to anyone.
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Summary: Could have been much better than it was.
Review: This is the second book I read by Adele Griffin and while it was okay, I sort of wish I hadn't bought it in hardcover. It's about a friendship between two girls, Delia and Amandine. Delia has a secret that isn't revealed until the end of the book. Amandine, however, is a pathological liar and when Delia catches her in her lies, Amandine accuses Delia's father of molesting her. The situation gets to be so bad that Delia and her family leave town. It could have been a really great story but instead it turned out to be just average. Adele Griffin never really explains why Delia and Amandine are so messed up. And there didn't seem to be any climax or resolution, just straight through. On the whole it was good but it could have been a lot better.
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