Then there's Allison, a rich but friendly inhabitant of one of the very houses Danielle's mother is looking to rob. As Danielle probes her for valuable information she finds that Allison doesn't seem like the type of person she'd like to rob but the type of person maybe she'd like to have as a friend, that is, if she was allowed to make friends.
All of this and her constant reservations about her mother's choice of "career" make Danielle begin to reconsider the path her life is taking and consider that maybe she isn't so powerless to change her situation as she had always thought. Stealing Heaven is an engaging read about a girl who wants nothing more than what most teenage girls have - a school, a friend, a boyfriend, stuff that belongs to her instead of to someone else.
Scott captures Dani's longings for all these things and her mother's total lack of understanding of why anyone would ever want the things that Dani wants. The conflict between Dani's love and loyalty to her mother and her desire for a different kind of life is realistically drawn. The lush beach town of Heaven comes to life and it's hard not to love its friendly citizens and understand why Dani would desperately want to trade in her unusual way of life for a place among Heaven's population.
Stealing Heaven strikes a good balance between the more fluffy parts of the book and more serious issues such as Dani's questions about the morality of stealing from the very rich, the difference between love and sex, and even the prospect of losing a loved one to cancer. This is a quick read about growing up and learning that it's never too late and you're never too powerless to make the decisions that can change the circumstances of your life.
Book available May 27, Every damn word. Its because I know other people are so blown awayokay, maybe not blown away, per seby Elizabeth Scott, and having dismissed her previous two books as utter disappointments particularly Bloom , I REALLY wanted to know what the fuss was about.
And guess what? Theres nothing special, short for her creative mind. But isnt everyone creative if they put their minds to it? Ill at least give her props for that. I was just thinking about writing a story about a girl with a kleptomaniac for a mother, and then Im browsing through amazon. I liked the premise. Very catchy: My name is Danielle.
Im eighteen. Ive been stealing things for as long as I can remember. It breaks another one of my book rules: Dont even attempt to read a book that starts off with Hello! Desperate, pathetic much? But the stealing part totally caught my attention, so I went and borrowed it. Buying books really depresses me because blurbs lie.
So now, I stick to borrowing them, which explains why Im always so slow on reading the new releases. Anyway, I enjoyed the first few chapters. They were serious and provided a clear picture of the thiefs path. Even from the beginning, however, I was only able to like Dani a little bit because Elizabeth Scott turned her into an annoying girl who sighed every other page over her mother was this really necessary? Its like this with other Scotts protagonists: they never really DO anything until its too late for me to start liking them.
How can I show an ounce of sympathy or appreciation like that? I mean, even if youre an author taking the long road of discovery for your character, she cant complain and be a pathetic mess all pages long, right? Another Scott signature: repetition. Maybe no one has told her yet, but the repetition is SO obvious. I didnt even have to re-read certain parts to see that fault.
Its like, right there. The words were trying to test my patience again! I have a hawks eye when it comes to criticizing people about thisyet, I know I go and do the very same thing when I write my essays and stories. But Scott has an editor and a publisher, right? So, no excuses. Things went downhill when Greg came into the picture.
I liked that he was so casual at first and broke most stereotypes for what a cop represented, but oh my god, he drove me insane. Hes such a plastic cut out character that I rolled my eyes at his entrances. The lines Scott made him say was flat and forced. The latter being the worst problem. Things that Greg said didnt match his personalitythe author put it down just for the sake of strolling the conversation along.
Some people WILL notice the awkwardness of the words. Also, I just cant imagine anyone talking like that. That meaning a twenty-something year old guy trying to impersonate a friendly and innocent ten year old.
Because thats exactly how Greg appeared to me, despite Scotts intention of turning him into this breezy cop that said what he wanted and did what he wanted. He was just childish. And the fact that Dani got her share of forced lines didnt help the matter: I could practically see her transforming into this ditzy blonde no offense to blondes; Im just going with the wrongly pinned stereotypes here when they conversed. Im sure that wasnt the effect Scott was trying to create.
If that waswell, consider me speechless. I just couldnt deal after that. That was just too much for me. His childish speech got on my nerves, Danis lack of doing something until the very end see the connection to Lauren in Bloom , anyone?
The slow pacingIll even give this a title: a la Scott, because its yet another of Ms. Elizabeths signatureswas just an additional blow to my already tedious day. For fans of Going Too Far by Echolls. June 29, Reader reviewed by Sara From inside cover: "My name is Danielle. Dani has been trained as a thief by the best - her mother.
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