Untitled Robyn Schneider

Published July 12, 2014 by Simon & Schuster Ltd.

ISBN:: 978-1-4711-1548-6

(2 reviews)

anka.trini reviewed Untitled Robyn Schneider by Robyn Schneider

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3 stars

Anfangs dachte ich, ich würde das Buch abgöttisch lieben, aber nach und nach wurden meine Erwartungen so hoch, dass ich ja nur enttäuscht werden konnte. Letztendlich wurde ich nicht emotional mitgenommen, aber zumindest sehr gut unterhalten.
Dann und wann habe ich ein bisschen gemerkt, dass die Autorin einige ihrer Sätze wahrscheinlich aus Tumblr kopiert hat, was man auch der Danksagung am Ende des Buches entnehmen kann. Das hat mich teilweise aus dem Konzept gebracht, ist aber auch kein Grund, die Geschichte negativ zu bewerten.
Kurz gesagt kann ich das Buch als Coming of Age Story sehr empfehlen und wurde zumindest dahingehend nicht hängen gelassen.

Kleines Update: Ich habe das Buch einem Freund von mir geschenkt und er fand es großartig. Also gebt der Geschichte einfach mal eine Chance:)

patchworkbunny reviewed Untitled Robyn Schneider by Robyn Schneider

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4 stars

Extraordinary Means plays on the idea of the Victorian sanatorium, reinventing them for a not too distant future. Victorians believed that rest and fresh air were the best things for consumption and not having the drugs to treat it, this wasn’t too bad an idea. It at least quarantined the ill.

Here children are shipped off to a boarding school for those diagnosed with TB. They are encouraged to lead a stress-free lifestyle and are not pressured in classes. In some ways the dynamics are like so many school settings, but the children have been abruptly taken away from the lives they know and they are cut off from the world. And then there’s the possibility they may never leave.

Lane is a straight-A student determined to keep up his academic achievements whilst he’s at Latham House. Initially floundering, he defaults to hanging out with the religious kids, yet he …

Extraordinary Means plays on the idea of the Victorian sanatorium, reinventing them for a not too distant future. Victorians believed that rest and fresh air were the best things for consumption and not having the drugs to treat it, this wasn’t too bad an idea. It at least quarantined the ill.

Here children are shipped off to a boarding school for those diagnosed with TB. They are encouraged to lead a stress-free lifestyle and are not pressured in classes. In some ways the dynamics are like so many school settings, but the children have been abruptly taken away from the lives they know and they are cut off from the world. And then there’s the possibility they may never leave.

Lane is a straight-A student determined to keep up his academic achievements whilst he’s at Latham House. Initially floundering, he defaults to hanging out with the religious kids, yet he is drawn to another group, one that seems to know how to live in this restricted world.

I equally liked Lane and Sadie’s narratives. The misunderstandings weren’t overly drawn out and I wanted them to be friends. I wanted them to get a chance outside the walls of Latham. It touches a little on the prejudice they would face in the outside world should they recover. I would have liked it go to into more detail on this but maybe there will be a sequel…

TB is actually on the increase as people stop vaccinating thinking it’s a disease long dead and forgotten. So the scenario isn’t too far-fetched. The over-prescription of antibiotics has led to many drug resistant strains of bacteria, tuberculosis could so easily be one of them given a new outbreak.