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https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...Thank you so much! This was amazing.
I'm not entirely sure what age level we are talking about here.
Now if we are talking ages 13-16, I'd say maybe slim down on some of the cussing? Maybe just imply that Jules is hearing bad words? But then again... society is evolved so much. I know 7th graders who AREN'T EVEN VIRGINS, (disgusting I know), and who cuss up a storm. So honestly... I think the content is OKAY for young readers. I mean, the writing is REAL and INTENSE, and it's stuff that young people should be aware of.
The only thing I can suggest is making the writing more simple and easy to understand. I remember one line was using alliteration like it was a religion. It was all big words too. A younger audience is going to be tempted to SKIP OVER and skim the novel if there's things they don't understand. Other then that, I don't think they'll be bored... at all. Some things will definitely make them flinch, but I really don't think much needs to change.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...I agree with Rachelann, though I would say that I was reading pretty mature stuff at that age. It is definitely one that goes through several different age groups.
Here's my reviewhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The amazon review will be posted later.
Thanks
Dominique wrote: "Here's my reviewhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The amazon review will be posted later.
Thanks"
Any suggestions for the author?
4 1/2 hours until the deadline.
Marni wrote: "Dominique wrote: "Here's my reviewhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The amazon review will be posted later.
Thanks"
Any suggestions for the author?"
Sorry I could`t post the Amazon until today, was having problems with my computer.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/review/R2GGL...
In my opinion, I couldn`t see someone under the age of 14 read this book and to change the dynamic of the book would take away a lot of the story and the emotions.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...I can only think of one thing to make it readable to a younger audience, and that's changing some of the more naughtier words. I can't imagine being an English teacher having to deal with the immaturity of students reading about someone talking about being f***ed and d**ks and getting oral sex and all that. I work with high school students and I know it only takes that one student to ruin what the actual experience should be.
Reviewers..I just heard from the author today. Big news from her. She won the 2015 GOLD IPPY AWARD for Young Adults!!!!!http://www.independentpublisher.com/a...
*The "IPPY" Awards, launched in 1996, are designed to bring increased recognition to the deserving but often unsung titles published by independent authors and publishers. Established as the first awards program open exclusively to independents, over 3,000 "IPPYs" have been awarded to authors and publishers around the world.
Independent publishers are extremely diverse, in both style and geography. This year’s IPPY medalists represent 45 U.S. states plus the District of Columbia, six Canadian provinces, and ten countries overseas: Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Spain, and the United Kingdom.
Congratulations J. Dylan Yates!
That is absolutely amazing. And after reading this, I can absolutely see how it happened. Congrats to the author, this should feel like a great win! :)
Thanks very much for taking the time to read and review. Thanks for your wonderful comments and support, as well. Onward!
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Jules Finn and Szaja Trautman know that sorrow can sink deeply—so deeply it can drown the soul.
Growing up in her parents’ crazy hippie household on a tiny island off the coast of Boston, Jules’s imaginative sense of humor is the weapon she wields as a defense against the chaos of her family’s household. Somewhere between routine discipline with horsewhips, gun-waving gambling debt collectors, and LSD-laced breakfast cereal adventures, tragedy strikes with the death of her younger brother.
Jules’s story alternates with that of her grandfather, Szaja, an orthodox Jew who survives the murderous Ukranian pogroms of the 1920s, the Majdanek death camp, and the torpedoing of the Mefkura, a ship carrying refugees to Palestine. Unable to deal with the horrors he endures at the camp, Szaja develops a dissociative disorder and takes on the persona of a dead soldier from a burial ditch, using that man’s thoughts to devise a plan to escape to America.
While Szaja’s and Jules’s sorrows are different on the surface, adversity requires them both to find the will to live despite the suffering in their lives—and both encounter, in their darkest moments, what could be explained as serendipity or divine intervention. For Jules and Szaja, these experiences offer the hope the need in order to come to the rescue of their own fractured lives.
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