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What components does your book have to make it a page-turner? Or was this book a little slow to get started? Was there a point where you just couldn't put it down? Or did you struggle getting through it? Please provide examples.
Heroine 2
Do you believe in 100 years, this novel will be considered a "classic"? Will it stand the test of time and be something that students will be reading in an English class of the future? Why or why not?
"Heroine" is a very fast paced book. It gets right into the action and then action never stops. One thing will stop are be solved and another will happen. I couldn't put it down from the beginning. The prologue just hits you out of nowhere. The very first thing that happens in the book is she wakes up and her friends are dead. Then she just leaves them and you just have to know what happened to them. You just have to keep reading.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it's a fast paced book and once you read the prologue it just keeps you wanting more. As well as when she leaves her friends in the beginning of the book that also made me want to keep on reading.
DeleteI couldn't stop reading Heroine. From the very first page, this book dives into a fast-paced plot. It moves through time swiftly and doesn't hang around on one time period for too long. Every time I put Heroine down, I was legitimately excited and looked forward to the next time I could get a few more pages in! I never wanted to stop reading. Something new happened every page, and the plot wasn't predictable either. Needless to say, Heroine is jam-packed with surprises.
ReplyDeleteI totally agree. I would literally get home from school and read it right away. I always looked forward to the next time I would get to read it whether it was in class or after school. Part of this was because it was such a page-turner.
DeleteHeroine's a fast read and a page turner. Once you start reading it you don't want to stop. I couldn't put the book down after reading the prologue and when she gets into the car accident. She was in the car with her friend Carolina, they were just talking and Mickey drove off the road causing the crash. Heroine is a fantastic book and it keeps you wanting more every time you put the book down.
ReplyDeleteIt's the prologue that kept me going most of the time, but I do agree that Mickey and Carolina's recovery after the car crash kept the plot interesting.
DeleteI agree Heroine was a fast read and kept the reader focused entirely on what would happen next. I also felt Mickey was to blame for not paying enough attention when she was driving and causing the accident, which affected both her and her best friend.
DeleteHeroine is definitely a page-turner. It is very fast paced and constantly makes you wonder what will happen next or when people in her life will find out about her addiction. From the moment I started reading i really could not put it down. Between her relationships with Luther and Carolina to the strange relationship that Charlotte and Edith had, I was so intrigued the entire time. One particular example of this is at the very end when we see her friends overdose and then her parents find out. I wanted to know what was going to happen so badly. Even the ending left me hoping for a sequel.
ReplyDelete"Heroine" kept me reading until the very end. The prologue gave me an instant hook that had me waiting anxiously for what was about to happen. The strange relationships Mickey makes after she becomes addicted to Oxy is very interesting to see, because you know that the only connection between most of these people are just the drugs. So when Edith couldn't supply them anymore it made me wonder what was going to happen to their group. Overall, Heroine is just a good book to read (but the ending has a little to be desired).
ReplyDeleteThe main thing that made Heroine is the very start where it started with her friends dying. I was super confused and curious and I wanted to know why and how they died. The book started out with her friends dying then her getting into car accident so it was definitely not slow at all.
ReplyDeletei agree. The beginning really got me hooked and made me eager to read more to find out what happened.
DeleteI think the fact that the prologue started will her friends dying right away made me want to keep reading to find out how it happened (other than overdose obviously). I wanted to know what events led up to it and why it happened. I think it was very fast paced, she was in a car accident and then all the sudden was taking drugs in the hospital and then all the sudden all she wanted was drugs. I don't think it was too fast paced, I think it was the right amount to keep me, the reader, engaged the entire time to the end.
ReplyDeleteI agree. From when I first read the page that her friends died I was immediately interested in what had happened and why.
DeleteI think the components that made heroine a page turner is that it was one event after another consistently through out the entire book. This book was very hard to put down. It was so interesting and detailed. Also getting to see things from mickeys point of view and what was going on in her head was very intriguing, especially her thought process about why she needed the drugs and the constant denial of being an addict.
ReplyDeleteHeroine was definatley a page turner. I had a hard time putting the book down. For example, right in the beginning of the book they skipped to the part where Josie, Luther, and Derrick died, but they didnt go into detail about it. The next chapter they just pick right back up at the beginning leaving you confused and anxious to find out what happened. Another example of how the book was a apge turner was the car crash. It happened right away in the beginning getting you immedeitky hooked. Throughout the book new problems would after one after another making it exciting.
ReplyDeleteThe way Heroine started immediately started with all Mickey's friends dying got me hooked and instantly intrigued. It made my want to know how and why Mickey got to this point, as well as the others. I became very invested in the book, seeing that only more and more problems followed one after another.
ReplyDeleteHeroine was a very fast paced book that jumped into the action right at the start. For example, the prologue made you wonder who these people were and why they died, and the first chapter started off with a literal car crash that changed Mickey's life. I thought it was a page-turner and very exciting, with Mickey meeting someone new or having something else happen to her with every chapter.
ReplyDeleteHeroine was one of the fastest book that I have read for this class. It was very easy to get through. Considering in the first pages it started with tons and tons of action. A part where I couldn't put it down was when they went to the truck stop to meet the new man who had heroin and then when Josie and the boys went back to the house and overdosed but Mickey had used her left over heroin from their old dealer and didn't overdose. Another part that I couldn't put it down was when she went to Edith's house and Edith blamed Mickey for Josie becoming a addict to heroin.
ReplyDeleteHerione was a huge page turner, starting from the begining when her enitre life was runied and she got in a car accident and almost runined her chance of playing softball. And becuase of that inocent she became a drug addict. I think that because of this events it made it a page turner becuase you were always wondering what was going to happen next.
ReplyDeleteI felt Heroine was a page-turner from the very beginning. From the very beginning with Mickey's friends being dead, one is propelled into reading on to discover what brings the character to such a tragic state of affairs. Next, the reader is brought back to where the car accident occurs and the devastation that follows as Mickey begins to lean on Oxy for her pain. I honestly had a hard time putting the book down. It kept my attention riveted to find out what would happen next.
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