The anatomical shape of a heart
The Anatomical Shape of a Heart
By Jenn Bennet
Genre: Copntemporaary YA
Book description: Artist Beatrix Adams knows exactly how she's spending the summer before her senior year. Determined to follow in Da Vinci's footsteps, she's ready to tackle the one thing that will give her an advantage in a museum-sponsored scholarship contest: drawing actual cadavers. But when she tries to sneak her way into the hospital's Willed Body program and misses the last metro train home, she meets a boy who turns her summer plans upside down.
Jack is charming, wildly attractive . . . and possibly one of San Francisco's most notorious graffiti artists. On midnight buses and city rooftops, Beatrix begins to see who Jack really is-and tries to uncover what he's hiding that leaves him so wounded. But will these secrets come back to haunt him? Or will the skeletons in Beatrix's own family's closet tear them apart?
My thoughts on it:
Ok I have to say I love Jack and Bex as a couple and individually. They're both so real and mostly sensible teens which makes it a very relatable book.
Bex is very down to earth and stubborn yet she deeply cares about her family and even on her escapades and and sneaking around with a boy and such; she still makes responsible decisions for the most part. Jack is a very alternative person, always so direct and confident.... his life is not perfect far from it but he fights to get something real and he finds it with Bex. Also he does you know one or tow fellonies but as he said they were minor and he does have to man up to it and face some consequences.... So I guess it handles that well enough.
This is a very good story, it is still filled with instant love and spark between the main characters that you find a lot of in YA that doens't always make the sense to most people but hey, in the end they do kind of get to know each other and try building a relationship moving "slow".
This book has diversity in it's characters you have same sex couples, you have a diverse religious beliefs and moral codes; it moves away from the common and typical all white characters and doesn't over use the stereotypes for them.
You get to see a development in the characters, a maturity in which they face life and a solution to a lot of the issues... I like that I always enjoy more a story that has an ending for everyone in it, it is so annoying to have a book end and only the main character had a complete resolution to her/his problem, the secondary characters also deserve some closure.
I gave this book a 4.5 rating out of 5 stars.
It was a very good option for a Valentine Day read.
By Jenn Bennet
Genre: Copntemporaary YA
Book description: Artist Beatrix Adams knows exactly how she's spending the summer before her senior year. Determined to follow in Da Vinci's footsteps, she's ready to tackle the one thing that will give her an advantage in a museum-sponsored scholarship contest: drawing actual cadavers. But when she tries to sneak her way into the hospital's Willed Body program and misses the last metro train home, she meets a boy who turns her summer plans upside down.
Jack is charming, wildly attractive . . . and possibly one of San Francisco's most notorious graffiti artists. On midnight buses and city rooftops, Beatrix begins to see who Jack really is-and tries to uncover what he's hiding that leaves him so wounded. But will these secrets come back to haunt him? Or will the skeletons in Beatrix's own family's closet tear them apart?
My thoughts on it:
Ok I have to say I love Jack and Bex as a couple and individually. They're both so real and mostly sensible teens which makes it a very relatable book.
Bex is very down to earth and stubborn yet she deeply cares about her family and even on her escapades and and sneaking around with a boy and such; she still makes responsible decisions for the most part. Jack is a very alternative person, always so direct and confident.... his life is not perfect far from it but he fights to get something real and he finds it with Bex. Also he does you know one or tow fellonies but as he said they were minor and he does have to man up to it and face some consequences.... So I guess it handles that well enough.
This is a very good story, it is still filled with instant love and spark between the main characters that you find a lot of in YA that doens't always make the sense to most people but hey, in the end they do kind of get to know each other and try building a relationship moving "slow".
This book has diversity in it's characters you have same sex couples, you have a diverse religious beliefs and moral codes; it moves away from the common and typical all white characters and doesn't over use the stereotypes for them.
You get to see a development in the characters, a maturity in which they face life and a solution to a lot of the issues... I like that I always enjoy more a story that has an ending for everyone in it, it is so annoying to have a book end and only the main character had a complete resolution to her/his problem, the secondary characters also deserve some closure.
I gave this book a 4.5 rating out of 5 stars.
It was a very good option for a Valentine Day read.
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