THE LOVE AFFAIR When Beth`s choir travels to Switzerland, she meets Derek: pale, brooding, totally dreamy. Derek`s untethered passion-for music, and for Beth-leaves her breathless. Because in Derek`s eyes? She`s not The Beast, she`s The Beauty. THE IMPOSSIBLE CHOICE When Beth comes home, Scott, her best ally in the world, makes a confession that leaves her completely torn. Should she stand by sweet, steady Scott or follow the dangerous, intense new feelings she has for Derek? THE Grief The closer Beth gets to Derek, the farther away he seems. Then Beth discovers that Derek`s been hiding a sinister secret from her _one that could shatter everything. Goodreads.Review - I understood from the start what the writer was stressful to reach with her good intentions and personal connections with this journey. And I am sympathetic. Unfortunately that didn't keep me from feeling emotionally manipulated and angry. There was a complete want of refinement in her storytelling that robbed me of any genuine attachment to the characters. My first roadblock was the authors insistence on using an extended Beauty and the Beast analogy that a) wasn't all the applicable and b) was wrestled in unexpectedly throughout. Beth is a persona who is tortured at school -physically, mentally and emotionally - due to her gargantuan height and unattractive face. She's (apparently) so ugly that she's been let go from her daycare job for scaring the children! It is at this indicate that the author infuriated me for the initiative of what became many times. So surly with pimples that she scared small children? I like I were kidding. Secondly, there is the oh so expensive makeover that is sprung on Beth the Beast. It involved waxing, lasers, a new wardrobe, spa cosmetics,etc. Why did she earn this very special treatment? Turns out that she's an amazing soprano who has been hiding her light under a bushel. What else would a rich parent of an acquaintance do but fund all this so their lead vocalist looks less hideous? No, I am not kidding. With her debut as the choir's soloist, Beth earns the centre of the tormented Derek. The controlling, passive aggressive and spouter of all things truth adjacent - Derek.who also happens to make a secret. (Of form he does). The writer seems to consider all the other attributes should be excused by the 'secret', I don't agree. I didn't find the court between them - the association is based on a) his feeling that he knows her person from repeatedly listening to her solo single and b) that he's there for her when she receives some (anvil clanking, unnecessary, shoehorned) news. And he's hot. And she is too, now. So what is to prevent these two hot lovebirds apart? Apparently not my sheer force of will. Derek and Beth's relationship is no way a beautiful thing. It makes them horrible people that are loathsome to say about. They take out the whip in one another, and a scary aggression, that is exceedingly difficult to drink in contrast with Beth's characterisation prior to their relationship. She morphs into a horny, borderline hysterical and mopey protagonist that is painful to survive not because the audience emphasises but only because it's plain awful to read. I didn't buy that their love, despite the many organise and indirect love professions. When they are not kissing each other with the fierceness of mountain lions snacking on a deer, they are flinging passive aggressive taunts at one another. There's no connection, no romance, no heat - reading their scenes together made me hate them both. The author created this account to cover those that are different or disadvantaged, to throw light on a medical condition. As a result, the delivery is extremely heavy handed and not at all successful. In keeping Derek's secret to the end she had to do her protagonist equal parts oblivious and stupid. Beth starts out as a victim of horrifying bullying, transforms into a swan, finds 'love' with a tragic boy (who loves her for her person and voice, though he never saw her ugly) and then transforms into a heinous, mindless, shrieking banshee. Perhaps Morrison should get exploited the Jekyl/Hyde analogy instead? Morrison's inconsistent characterisation and press on featuring two equally controlling and emotional insensitive make Sing Me To Rest a hard slog. At time the dialog between Beth and her two beaux is ponderously. It isn't an accurate picture of the teen mind. The arc is jumpy, the thinking is poorly realised and ultimately, I simply didn't care. The story's conclusion was one of the most infuriating things I get always read. You might be asking yourself what made me wield such a poisoned tongue against Morrison's work? The truthis - there is a full record in here.somewhere, it only has been drowned with tonnes of melodramatic dialogue, trying relationships and threadbare characterisation. The only view that works, and feels authentic, is the choir plot. It is the only view that projects authentically in this story of overwrought, clumsily written teen love with( bonus) excessive medical information. Give this one a big pass. Published: March 4, 2010 Format: Hardcover, 304 pages Publisher: Razorbill Source: gift Origin: USA
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