Book Friday - The Chic Shall Inherit the Earth by Shelley Adina
15 January 2010
“Let me put it right out there: I’m no sports fan – unless you count surfing, which is more of an attitude to life than a sport.”
So, this is obviously not the first line of Ender’s Game. I planned on discussing it today, but I didn’t get it finished this week like I thought I would. Darn pregnancy making me too sleepy to read! It’ll definitely be next Friday, though.
Instead, I’ll talk about The Chic Shall Inherit the Earth by Shelley Adina, which I read right before Ender’s Game. The Chic Shall Inherit the Earth is the final installment of the All About Us series. If you liked the first five books, you’ll like this last one as well. I thought it wrapped everything up nicely, though not so neat and tidy that it’s borderline annoying. A couple gets together who all the readers have been eagerly waiting for. There’s a sad breakup that I didn’t see coming, and a near-breakup that resolved in a way I’m pleased with.
I thought Shelley did a great job capturing the emotions following you around during the last semester of senior year. The weird mix of stress about picking the right future while relaxing and losing interest in your current classes. And I love Lissa as a narrator. She narrated the first book, and I found myself kinda missing her in the ones that followed, so I’m glad Shelley chose to use her in the last one.
The only thing that absolutely drove me crazy about this book was the cover. There’s nothing wrong with the concept—Shani, Lissa, and Carly are taking a self portrait of themselves on graduation day. What annoys the heck out of me is how you can see the image in the camera screen, and it’s obvious they just copy and pasted the cover in there. I mean, THE CAMERA IS IN THE PICTURE THEY’RE TAKING. Really bugs me. But the story inside the cover is enjoyable enough for me to get over it.
Hope you all enjoy your weekend!
I am so chuckling over the camera-in-the-picture thing. Ah, the little details.
Posted by Roseanna White on 15 January 2010