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| Original Title: | The Disenchantments |
| ISBN: | 0525422196 (ISBN13: 9780525422198) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Nina LaCour
Hardcover | Pages: 310 pages Rating: 3.72 | 8657 Users | 964 Reviews
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Colby and Bev have a long-standing pact: graduate, hit the road with Bev's band, and then spend the year wandering around Europe. But moments after the tour kicks off, Bev makes a shocking announcement: she's abandoning their plans - and Colby - to start college in the fall.But the show must go on and The Disenchantments weave through the Pacific Northwest, playing in small towns and dingy venues, while roadie- Colby struggles to deal with Bev's already-growing distance and the most important question of all: what's next?
Morris Award–finalist Nina LaCour draws together the beauty and influences of music and art to brilliantly capture a group of friends on the brink of the rest of their lives.
Details Regarding Books The Disenchantments
| Title | : | The Disenchantments |
| Author | : | Nina LaCour |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 310 pages |
| Published | : | February 16th 2012 by Dutton Children's Books |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Contemporary. Music. Fiction. Travel. Road Trip |
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Ratings: 3.72 From 8657 Users | 964 ReviewsWrite-Up Regarding Books The Disenchantments
{This review originally appeared on Clear Eyes, Full Shelves. }When we are young, we are whimsical dreamers.Our parents and the adults in our lives encourage this fanciful mindset. They tell us that with hard work, we CAN INDEED be elected President of the USA, possibly even without winning the overall popular vote. We WILL INDEED see our favorite football team win the Super Bowl in our lifetime, since theres no way they could possibly lose 4 years in a row. But as we get older, we areI finished this book in February. It's April and I still think about it. I think that says enough, right? Well, here's a few more things to consider: there's a scene early in the book -- the band's first show in some dude's basement -- that had me smiling the whole way. Upon reading that scene, I knew that this was not going to be a slog through romantic angst or trauma or manufactured danger. This was going to be a quest for understanding and purpose (because the world is always demanding we
Short review: every single character in this book's relationship status on Facebook is, hopefully, "It's complicated".Long review:Dear Colby, protagonist of this book,Nearly ten years ago, I made plans to move to my dream big city. My best friend decided she would too, with the plan of arriving a few months after me. It sounded like the best future in the world. Then suddenly when I talked about it she grew uncomfortable and shuffly, and one day she refused to talk to me and refused to say why.
The Disenchantments is kind of a quiet book; on the surface it seems to be a fun road-trip/bonding story, but Nina LaCour turns it into so much more. She has this way of taking your emotions and giving them a great big squeezetheres an enormous amount of power packed into her writing and the plights of the characters. The hairs on the back of my neck stood up at certain points in the story; sometimes because of the connection I felt to the characters emotions, but sometimes just because of the
Rating: 4.5 I loved this! PERFECT book to read in the summer! It's so fun and easy to read.
This was... okay, I guess?
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