Jellicoe Road
by Melina Marchetta
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Author: Melina MarchettaEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2008-09-01
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 432
Publisher: HarperTeen
Book Reviews of Jellicoe Road
Book Review: Confusing at first but stick with it - it's a brilliant story!
Summary: 5 Stars
For me Jellicoe Road was an absolutely amazing read, this is a book I will treasure and the characters will stay with me for a long, long time. I don't read much realistic fiction but this book gave me a taste for more. I can honestly say that I will re-read this book again (but first I'm going persuade my younger sister to read it), I seldom re-read anything so that says a lot about how much I loved this book.
The first 100 pages or so could be really confusing, but for me it was a positive kind of confusing, not the irritating one, that made me curious and made me want to discover what this was all about. If you just sit back and relax and accept that there is a mystery in the beginning of this book that will be revealed for you bit by bit throughout the novel you're in for a real treat.
We join Taylor Markham for a few weeks in August/September for a few weeks of her life and parallel to this we are introduced to a story about five teens. The two stories are separated by the use of italic on the five's story. It works out really well in this novel, although it was a bit confusing at first when I tried figuring out how these two stories fit together.
Reading Jellicoe Road has been such an emotional rollercoaster. I feel head over heels for Marchetta's characters, each and every one of them. Marchetta writes in a way that makes even the least important characters memorable and living and you will feel their emotions. I've been sad, happy, I've laughed and I've shed a ocean of tears(so many that the puppy I'm babysitting jumped up into my lap to try and comfort me).
Our main character, Taylor, is a cold person, well at first anyway, but it's only realistic that you're afraid of connecting with people when your own mother didn't want anything to do with you. Throughout the story Taylor changes very much and it just feels so realistic. I must add that there will be some romance in this book and the kissing scenes might very well steal your breath away!
Melina Marchetta officially got a new fan; I want to read all here books. If they're anywhere near as good as Jellicoe Road then I have much to look forward to.
Summary of Jellicoe Road
"What do you want from me?" he asks. What I want from every person in my life, I want to tell him. More.
Abandoned by her mother on Jellicoe Road when she was eleven, Taylor Markham, now seventeen, is finally being confronted with her past. But as the reluctant leader of her boarding school dorm, there isn't a lot of time for introspection. And while Hannah, the closest adult Taylor has to family, has disappeared, Jonah Griggs is back in town, moody stares and all.
In this absorbing story by Melina Marchetta, nothing is as it seems and every clue leads to more questions as Taylor tries to work out the connection between her mother dumping her, Hannah finding her then and her sudden departure now, a mysterious stranger who once whispered something in her ear, a boy in her dreams, five kids who lived on Jellicoe Road eighteen years ago, and the maddening and magnetic Jonah Griggs, who knows her better than she thinks he does. If Taylor can put together the pieces of her past, she might just be able to change her future.
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