they are never one-dimensional, even if they are only background players. Marchetta's strength is in her characters. and i am officially hooked and will read every last word of hers. and while i think jellicoe road is a much more profound and moving book, just because the scope of it is about four times bigger than this one, this book has got some moves all its own. i can see why all the ladies are loving all over her. Yeah, i can understand the melina marchetta hype now. (just a little D, but enough to make my syntax awkward, is the excuse) (full disclosure - this is a post-goodreads-party DBR.) put the apple schnapps away,boy, you will not be needing it tonight. not now - now i would see through a line like that in a heartbeat, but at sixteen? hook line and sinker, man. she writes boys you wish you had dated when you were sixteen. Seriously - that is barf-in-your-mouth sweet (in a good way) and part of why i love this marchetta gal. "do you think people have noticed that i'm around?" "i was born seventeen years ago," i tell him.
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