Speak/Shout Blog 3
What components does your book have to make it a page-turner? Or was this book a little slow to get started? Was there a point where you just couldn't put it down? Or did you struggle getting through it? Please provide examples.
Silent Patient/The Fury Blog 4
What story elements (character, plot, mood, conflict, theme, etc.) are present in this book to make it "young adult"? What intrigued you the most about this book? What will you remember most about this book?
Speak for me was a struggle to get through the entire book. It was very slow and boring and was just like reading about a girl going to high school. No interesting twists/turns happened or really anything exiting until the last 5 pages.
ReplyDeleteSpeak was very slow especially in the beginning, she was just talking about her going to school. So it never really was a page turner until the very end, but then I really was happy for Melinda and wanted to just finish the book. I would say that It was a page turner only during the last couple pages.
ReplyDeleteSpeak was a pretty slow read for me because I felt as though it was just like a day in the life of Melinda. I also thought not a lot was happening throughout the story. There was one point in the book where I was pretty intrigued and that was at the end of the book. I wanted to keep reading until the end, because I was interested in what was going to happen once Melinda started to figure out who she was and speaking up for herself.
ReplyDeleteSpeak was not necessarily a slow read for me because I did finish it pretty fast but the beginning was really hard to get into. The reason this book was not a page turner is because it just went through her life every day, nothing happened every day and I don't think the author should have dragged on the book for that long. I did like how it was by semesters and you could see her grade go down each semester. I thought that was a good thing to add to the book. I enjoyed reading the last couple of pages because it got pretty interesting but I wish I felt that same way through the whole book.
ReplyDeleteWhat makes a book be a page turner is when it just has that wow factor where you never know what is going to happen next. I do not think that Shout was a page turner. It was not a bad book in the slightest, just a slower book and with it being in poem form sometimes it just left be a little confused. I did like that you got background on the author like how she grew up and her families vibe. I felt it made the story a little more clear
ReplyDeleteThe book Speak was extremely difficult for me to get through because it difficult for me to get through the entire book because it was a slow read and it only talked about her going through her freshman year from start to finish. This book was not a page-turner for me until the end of the book. When I finished the book, I was happy with Melinda for speaking out on what happened to her that night of the party but I personally wanted to just finish the book. I would say that this book is a page turner but only for the last couple of chapters.
ReplyDeleteI feel like speak was definitely not a page turner. All though it was a short book it felt rather repetitive at times talking about the same things over and over again. The overall book was pretty good don't get me wrong, I just wish there was a little more context at the beginning cause it was kind of confusing when it was talking about Mel and how she didn't have any friends cause of a party. I wish they got into that more in depth and explained it earlier on in the book what had happened. At the end it definitely got more interesting and more of a page turner after she had finally speaking up for herself and revealed that she had been raped. I think if this book didn't focus mainly on her classes in high school it would be more of a page turner too me. This book last couple chapters was a page turner though
ReplyDeleteThis book wasn't a page turner. For most of the book Melinda was just talking about her daily life. It got kind of boring and didn't feel necessary. Towards the end it picked up a bit and got more interesting, but it wasn't to the point where I couldn't put it down.
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