...I wrote about Jennifer Donnelly's Deep Blue, which, well, I hated:
In reading the Prologue to Jennifer Donnelly’s Deep Blue—a description of a group of water witches swimming around, chanting rhyming couplets about six chosen ones with disparate talents who will have to band together to save the world—I got the distinct impression that not only had the book been specifically written with a film adaptation in mind, but that I had already SEEN said movie many, many times before.
It's rare for me to walk away from a book without anything nice to say.
Sadly, this is one of those times.
BURN. (delicious-to-read burn. sorry you had to fall on that swordfish for us.)
Posted by: marjorie | 26 May 2014 at 01:08 PM
*groans*
Josh has taken to harassing me with it.
At our most recent bonfire, conversation, shockingly, turned to books.
Josh: Oh! You know what book I'm really looking forward to reading?
Everyone else: Which one?
Josh: It's this book called Deep Blue, about...
Me: #(&#(*#(#)&#%@#&$(!!!!
Everyone else: *gives me side eye*
Josh: *falls over laughing*
Posted by: Leila | 26 May 2014 at 03:56 PM
Whew, you said all the critical things I was thinking about this book -- especially in relation to the unabashed "marketing opportunity" feel to it. I mean, I halfway liked the thing anyway b/c I'm a sucker for terrible puns and over-the-top infodumps, but... jeez, you really can practically smell the plastic toy packaging wafting off the pages.
Posted by: looloolooweez | 27 May 2014 at 12:21 PM
Man, I was hoping all the way through this review that it was a different Jennifer Donnelly.
Posted by: cc | 27 May 2014 at 11:17 PM