Let’s Review; Jasper Jones

Today’s book review is of “Jasper Jones” by Craig Silvey.

This story follows Charlie as he’s suddenly thrown into a mystery with the town of Corrigan’s “bad boy”, the two must figure out who did ‘it’ and figure out how to prove it before the town– as always– points their fingers to Jasper.

One night, Jasper Jones knocks on Charlie’s window, telling him that he needs Charlie to trust him. Looking for excitement, Charlie says yes and agrees to follow Jasper into the dark of the night. They travel on foot to a secret glade where Jasper spends a lot of his time. There, they discover ‘it’. (for the sake of spoilers I’m not going to state what ‘it’ is– though it might be hinted). Scared out of his mind Charlie wants to immediately report the incident, though Jasper brings up one vital point. Jasper is the only one who knew how to get to the hidden glade, the finger will inevitably point to him and he’d be put away for something he didn’t do. It’s then up to the two of them to find out who actually did it and quickly, before ‘it’ is truly discovered.

This book honestly had me hooked from the minute Jasper knocked on Charlie’s window. Each step of the way felt like I was being taken deeper and deeper into the story and I was eager to know the results (which I actually pretty much had a good idea a little more than halfway through the book). The storyline is very nice and I didn’t have much trouble in picking it up and resuming where I left off.

One of my favorite aspects of the book is ‘Mad Jack Lionel’, it has a very ‘Boo Radley’ effect to it and I find it especially hilarious since Atticus Finch is mentioned numerous times through out the book, meaning while Charlie has clearly read the book and therefore knows how the situation with ‘Boo Radley’ ends, he’s still utterly petrified of ‘Mad Jack Lionel’. Once its revealed who Jack truly is, I was blown away. And also really really REALLY sad.

The end I totally did see coming, and there is one character who seems to be the blame of ‘it’ due only to lack of empathy (which is also shown in the end of the book) and while I find that lacking personality trait a bit alarming, the character is also one of my favorites in the book despite not really seeming to have a terribly important of a role.

Overall this book was really well written and was a very good read (thank you Rachel for your suggestion lol). And I’ve actually learned it’s to become a movie soon, wow imagine that.

The only thing I didn’t particularly like was the bad bits of grammar that Charlie and Jasper seemed to show (and I also didn’t like Charlie’s mothers bad attitude nor did I particularly like the law enforcement or sports teams oops). I also wasn’t a huge fan of how long the chapters were but that’s only a minor issue. These are all simple things that were easily brushed aside due to the quality of the story itself.

I would definitely recommend this book and I rate it a solid 4/5 stars.

 

April 2016 TBR

Hello everybody! My name is Starr and this is my first post since starting this wordpress account. This account will be mostly for book reviews as well as series and author views (though those are much later to come).

However today I’d like to instead post my To-Be-Read list for April.

I do have a few books I’d like to get at reading this upcoming month and I’m hoping to get through them all (if not, a majority of them). The first of which is going to be “Cinder” by Marissa Meyer. I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book as well as the other books in the Lunar Chronicles and I’m pretty excited to see how they all turn out. I’m actually reading this book first because myself and my cousin Brandi have both decided to start a small book club (currently we are the only two members), and I got to choose the first book, yay!

The other books in my list include; “Jays Journal” by Anonymous, “The Never List” by Zoethi Kan, “Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes” by Edith Hamilton and “Black-Eyed Suzy” by Susan Shaw.

Only after I picked out these books did I realize I forgot to include either one of the two books that I bought more recently. Whoops.. If I somehow manage to read through all of the books above I’ll probably read one of the two (The first is “All Gone” by Alex Witchel while the other is “She Left Me the Gun” by Emma Brockes). I’m not sure if I will end up reading either of them this month but if not, they will most definitely be on my list for May.

With each book that I read I intend to write an honest review, highlighting the things I liked and disliked about the book and also bringing up some things that may have me stumped or pure speculations and theories about plot gaps or future books (should it be part of a series).

If you think any of that sounds pretty interesting feel free to stick around c:

Sincerely, Starr.