Green Angel
by Alice Hoffman
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Author: Alice HoffmanEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2004-05-01
ISBN: 0439443857
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Scholastic Paperbacks
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Book Review: "Green Angel" by Alice Hoffman has several significant shortcomings that push it well out of the realm of being a "must read".
Summary: 1 Stars
"Green Angel" by Alice Hoffman has several significant shortcomings that push it well out of the realm of being a "must read". Hoffman goes out of her way to appeal only to a very specific audience; the fifteenish high school girl obsessed with the "gothic" culture. The main character is really the only element Hoffman provides to identify with and she focuses on her to such an extent that anyone not interested in this character's very narrow, flat, and predictable personality will find little reason to continue the story. "Green", the main character, losses her family in a sudden, unexplained disaster. She goes into mourning, renames herself "Ash", tattoos pictures of black roses and bats on herself, puts nails through the tops of her boots, and sewing thorns into her coat. The story is one of rebirth and forgiving oneself, in this case from Green's mourning and her morose, angsty attitude before she loses her family. The book is heavily symbolic; executed with bluntness akin to being struck in the head by a sledgehammer coming at you in zero gravity. You can see it coming, turning slowly, and there is no way to get out of its way. Furthermore, the stories events fail to operate on a consistent basis of logic. Things just happen; independently of what logic says should happen. There is no explanation for anything, only a sense that the author didn't know what she meant to have happen in her own story, and so she has inserted random plot devices with the hopes that the impenetrable fog of her reasoning keeps anyone from noticing the inconsistency of the rules of the world she has created within the novel. I wouldn't recommend this book because there really isn't much to get from it and I don't think anyone but a goth-obsessed teenage girl would ever forgive me for doing so.
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