Some things are so real you can feel them to your core. It doesn't matter where you go, they go with you. Anywhere.
Jessica Shirvington, Between the Lives
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Some things are so real you can feel them to your core. It doesn't matter where you go, they go with you. Anywhere.
Jessica Shirvington, Between the Lives
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One Past Midnight by Jessica Shirvington
Despite the fact that this book was released six years ago and I’ve just now finally read it, Jessica Shirvington is one of my favorite authors of all time. The Violet Eden Chapters is my favorite series of books ever written, and if you combined the 5 books into one, they would rank in my top favorite books of all-time.
One Past Midnight - released as Between the Lives in Shirvington’s native Australia - is the author’s only one-off novel. Although the story does lend itself to a sequel or two, I am happy this didn’t happen. Anchoring Sabine’s story in this one novel is all we really need, and the using the beginning of her chosen life as a finale was deeply satisfying (though admittedly a little predictable).
My favorite thing about Shirvington - apart from her casual-yet-sharp writing style - is her almost effortless ability to craft deeply complicated, complex, emotional female characters. Even the background female characters - in this case, Sabine’s two mothers - hint at elaborate character pieces. Forgiving one emotional tangent that Sabine suffers for about 40 pages in this book - clearly misunderstanding something that Ethan has said to her and somehow believing it meant he doesn’t care about her - Sabine’s emotional intelligence and connectivity to herself and the people around her are awesome.
I would love to see One Past Midnight adapted into a film (and I was reminded of 2018′s Every Day, though I have yet to see it, and it sounds like the premise is different enough), placed in the hands of a capable female screenwriter and director who can properly support the care that Shirvington puts into her characters.
Sabine isn't like anyone else. For as long as she can remember, she's had two lives. Every twenty-four hours she "shifts," living each day twice. In one life, Sabine has everything: popular friends, perfect grades, expensive clothes, and the guy everyone wants. In the other, Sabine's family struggles financially, and her friends are considered rebels. But then she meets Ethan. He's gorgeous and challenging, and he makes her feel like she's never felt before. All Sabine really wants is the chance to live only one life. But when this finally becomes possible, is she willing to risk everything - including losing the one person who might actually believe her - to make it happen?
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Something about first love defies duplications. Before it, your heart is blank. Blank. When it ends, no amount of scrubbing will purge the scrawled oaths and sketched images, but sooner or later, you find that there's a space for someone else, between the words and in the margins.
‘Where You Are’, Tammara Webber
Автор: Джессика Ширвингтон Книга: Между жизнями Итоговая оценка: 10\10 Дата прочтения: 23.06.2013 Аннотация: Прежде всего, хотя я стараюсь не думать об этом, я знаю, какую жизнь я предпочитаю. И каждую ночь, когда я перемещаюсь из одной жизни в другую, очень маленькая, но все же важная часть меня, умирает. Самое сложное в моей ситуации, что ничего нельзя изменить. Нет никакой лазейки. То есть не было до этого момента... Столько, сколько она себя помнит, Сабина живет двумя жизнями. Каждые 24 часа она переходит к "другой" жизни - жизни, где она точно такая же, но абсолютно все остальное различно: разные семьи, разные друзья, разные отношения. В одной жизни у нее есть сестра, в другой нет. В одной жизни она идеальная ученица с идеальным парнем, в другой считается нарушительницей спокойствия. Ничего в этой ситуации не меняется до тех пор, пока она не сталкивается с некоторой странностью: в одной жизни она ломает руку, а в другой она по-прежнему здорова. С этим открытием Сабина начинает ряд рискованных экспериментов, приводящих ее опасно близко к жизни, которую она всегда хотела... Но чем... и кем она на самом деле рискует? Отзыв: Хорошая книга. Качественная. Сейчас очень сложно найти книгу, не похожую на все остальные. Эта одна из немногих. Такой я еще не читала. Прочла ее за несколько часов в весьма больном состоянии. Оторваться просто не могла. Все эти перемещения между мирами напомнили мне «Грань». И как сумасшедшая фанатка «Грани», я не могла не догадаться, чем дело кончится. Предсказуемо, но логично. Сама бы я закончила точно так же. Вообще мне последнее время везет на книги, которые доводят до слез, хотя от них такого, когда читать только начинаешь, совсем не ожидаешь. Что ж, респект автору. Итоговая оценка: 10\10