Gilda Joyce, Psychic Investigator
by Jennifer Allison
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Author: Jennifer AllisonEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2006-11-23
ISBN: 0142406988
Number of pages: 321
Reading Level: Young Adult
Publisher: Puffin
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Book Review: Sparkling writing!
Summary: 5 Stars
Very entertaining & a fun read. The author did a great job with evoking scene & character details in the relatively short & fast-paced books in this series. The characters in this series have been given a lot of detail and some have eccentricities, however, I thought the writing and the characterizations were humorous, interesting, & intelligent instead of ridiculous, pretentious, and inane. Even the far-fetched plots are interesting enough; they are not run-of-the-mill nor too zany & ostentatious to bear. I have read a lot of books this year with horrible writing & pacing, and boring characterization...even with good plots. Allsion's writing is so good that a good plot would not even be needed.
I also like that Gilda is not a character that is perfectly nice with good thoughts all the time (she is a good person, though, with good intentions in general). She does not act perfectly sweet all the time & does things to tease her mother, brother, & friends (not always nice) but that is normal human nature. The lying and "cruelty" to her mother that another reviwer wrote about should not put anyone off this book. I didn't see Gilda's treatment of her mother as even approaching cruel...like a normal person, she just gets snippy & pushes it with her mom even though she shouldn't. Very minor meanness. Another reviewer wrote that Gilda needs to learn the meaning of the words like "tact" and "boundaries". So true :) and I was also frustrated by her not-very-successful attempts to support Wendy in the Ghost Sonata book. However, Gilda is still growing up. Plus, it is a novel - to read for fun! I don't think that every book should have a main character that is mature and nice so that readers can emulate 100%. People are multi-dimensional.
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