Wednesday, July 18, 2018

Mirror, Mirror [Book Review]

Four teenagers have formed a band named Mirror, Mirror in their music class. Red (real name Amy) the queer goth, Naomi the anime lover, Leo the punk and Rose the diva meet in their weekly assembly. Red is the storyteller of the story, middle class, has a philandering father and an alcoholic mother, Red takes care of her younger sister Gracie. Naomi is Red's best buddy like her mirror and it is with her disappearance that the story revolves around. Naomi has been kidnapped and left for dead at the river. The doctor prescribed an induced coma so that the swelling would subside. With this the band mates and their family has their future at a standstill while they try to uncover the mystery what happened to Naomi as they deal with issues of their own. Rose the most popular girl in school has been date-raped at fourteen. She masked this now at sixteen she never told anyone except Red. Leo is the brother of Aaron who is famous at school for getting in jail for stabbing. He takes after his brother. It was a frustrated homicide case. But the band mates they come together to solve who kidnapped Naomi. Her older sister Ashira is a world class hacker and together with Red they captured the culprit. Mr. Smith the music teacher was the perverted criminal.

I give it 3 out of 5 stars. The writer Cara Delevingne arranged the chronology of this Young Adult story by time periods, like the chapters are jumbled into 8 weeks ago, 1 year ago, 9 hours ago and so on. Its kinda confusing you know but its supposed to be read as is. As i figured later. I read it chronologically which is i read the earliest history 1 Year Ago when they formed a band. What happened to Rose which was divulged 10 months ago is a big deal. She was gang-raped so i was expecting the issue be considered in the succeeding chapters. The details were on the first chapters if you know what i mean. I would have reiterated the panorama every now and then. Not excessively as necessary. That is the style of the late Robert Parker Jr. who churns out 3 novels in one year. He has passed away but still has backlog stories to this day. I'm saying you could do better Cara. Me look at my writing in 2011. Avatar and Beyond. I'm kind of a novice too.  

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