Scholastic The Game of Love and Death
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Brand: Scholastic
Description: Flora and Henry are pawns in a game played by eternal adversaries Love and Death. Born a few blocks from each other and meeting years later when their mutual love of music sparks an even more powerful connection. Scholastic The Game of Love and Death - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Scholastic
Product ID: 99202
ISBN: 9781407159546
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Author: Rosy @ The Review Diaries
Rating: 5
Review: This review was written for The Review Diaries You can read the full review on the site: http://reviewdiaries.blogspot.fr/2015/04/review-game-of-love-death-by-martha.html The hardest reviews for me to write are for books that I absolutely loved, because in some cases I find myself reduced to near incoherency out of sheer love and there is only so much READ THIS BOOK NOW, SO GOOD that I can put in a review... So this review has been incredibly hard. I've sat down to write it several times and am only now beginning to be able to string sentences together. This book is stunning. It is a work of art. It forces you to feel in a way that I have not encountered in a book in a very long time. I was completely immersed in this story within the first few pages and once I had begun, I found it very difficult (near impossible) to separate myself from the story for longer than simple things like having a sandwich. It is all consuming. I loved Henry and Flora fiercely. I found myself wanting to protect Flora from the horrible things she had to face, being a young black girl in 1930s America. I have never had such a visceral sense of anger and injustice reading as I did during some of the scenes where the colour of her skin denotes how people respond and communicate with her. She and Henry are such a wonderful pair. Their sense of selves with each other, the ease and banter, the magnetic attraction and feeling that the world was sliding away and falling out from under them. I don't think I've ever rooted so fully for a pair to have a slice of happiness as I did with them. The book is desperately sad, full of joy, passion, heartbreak and anger. It is a novel teeming with life and emotion, courage and the possibilities of life. It's hauntingly beautiful and woven together with the genius of Martha's writing. Lyrical, almost poetical in places it captures the essence of young love in a dangerous and fraught time. The emotions and tensions bubbling beneath the surface until the incredible and climactic final chapters. Fans of `The Night Circus' by Erin Morgenstern will love this game between Love and Death, who are such wonderful complex characters and who really drive the novel to new depths - ones you wouldn't normally expect with a book about two people falling in love. They add a sense of urgency, of the unknown and make the events feel as though they are poised on the brink of a knife, ready to tumble either way. It is rare for me to genuinely have no idea how a novel will end, but `The Game of Love & Death' not only kept me on my toes, but surprised me again and again, and I was crying by the final page.
Author: S. Shamma
Rating: 2
Review: To be honest, although this book sounds great, I just didn't like it. Love and Death play a game in which they pick two random players. Love's goal is to have them end up together and live happily ever after, while Death tries her best to destroy them and take away everything they ever loved causing mayhem in the process. Throughout history, Death has always been victorious and has succeeded in one-upping Love. This time though, Love is adamant that he's going to make this work and he will win. He goes to unlikely lengths to do so. But what does this vicious game make of the two innocent players, who have no idea why their lives have become so intertwined? Sounds really great, but halfway through, I was appalled at how brutal this book was. It is a lot more callous than I expected it to be, and Death depicts a cold-bloodedness that is quite chilling. I didn't feel that Death needed to be that cold-blooded, quite the opposite actually. The fact that her job is to take people's lives seems to me like a job that should have been given to someone who has an overflow of compassion and empathy, that can perform this duty with the required feeling, care, and concern. The idea of Death toying with people's lives that way, and enjoying it, and making it into a game, well...I understand how that sounded like a great storyline for a book, but sadly, it wasn't executed well enough to make me, the reader, buy into the story and think, "yes! This actually works and I like it!" Also, I just really didn't relate to either Henry or Flora, I felt as protagonists, they were somehow underdeveloped, not very well-rounded and their interactions came off as slightly contrived. I enjoyed the interactions between Love and Ethan a lot more than I did Henry and Flora. In fact, for two people who are supposedly "meant to be", it appeared like they were forcing themselves to be with one another. I expected a lot more action to happen between them, a lot more drama, conflict, something...ESPECIALLY given the period this story is set in. Great idea that was executed poorly, in my opinion.
