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A review by erica_o
The Adoration of Jenna Fox by Mary E. Pearson
4.0
I liked this story a great deal more than I'd expected.
The reader figures out pretty quickly that Jenna is some sort of re-animated creature - a zombie/Frankenstein's Monster/cyborg thingy. I had figured the following: Jenna would go all crazy monster but would grow up and become not-so-crazy, there would be a love triangle (they have become the bane of my reading existence), there'd be some battling the parents for supremacy followed by some death and it would all be stupid.
I was wrong! Hooray!
I appreciated the lack of love triangle the most, but I also enjoyed the struggles between Jenna and her parents. It wasn't all black and white, good and bad. Her parents weren't necessarily evil; in Jenna's view, they were misguided but for others, they weren't. I liked seeing that dichotomy in a YA book.
I really liked the reader. She started out with dead-teen-voice but as the character grew, the reader became more involved, more animated. She did individual voices for each of the characters. She was wonderful to hear which was refreshing because the bane of my listening experience is the dead-teen-voice readers.
The reader figures out pretty quickly that Jenna is some sort of re-animated creature - a zombie/Frankenstein's Monster/cyborg thingy. I had figured the following: Jenna would go all crazy monster but would grow up and become not-so-crazy, there would be a love triangle (they have become the bane of my reading existence), there'd be some battling the parents for supremacy followed by some death and it would all be stupid.
I was wrong! Hooray!
I appreciated the lack of love triangle the most, but I also enjoyed the struggles between Jenna and her parents. It wasn't all black and white, good and bad. Her parents weren't necessarily evil; in Jenna's view, they were misguided but for others, they weren't. I liked seeing that dichotomy in a YA book.
I really liked the reader. She started out with dead-teen-voice but as the character grew, the reader became more involved, more animated. She did individual voices for each of the characters. She was wonderful to hear which was refreshing because the bane of my listening experience is the dead-teen-voice readers.