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| Title | : | The Last Hope (Oksa Pollock #1) |
| Author | : | Anne Plichota |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 521 pages |
| Published | : | by Pushkin Children's Books (first published 2007) |
| Categories | : | Fantasy. Magic. Childrens |
Anne Plichota
Paperback | Pages: 521 pages Rating: 3.49 | 1505 Users | 125 Reviews
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Oksa Pollock is just a normal thirteen-year-old girl, moving with her family from her home in Paris to a new life in London - new friends, a new school and new adventures. But bizarre things start happening around Oksa. Suddenly, she finds she can produce fire from her hands, move objects with her mind, and even fly. As Oksa experiments with her wonderful new powers, her family notice, and an amazing truth is revealed...Along with her best friend, Gus, her loving, powerful grandmother, her wicked new Physics teacher, her mysterious uncles and a whole host of fantastical characters, she will be thrown into a wilder adventure than she could ever have imagined. And Oksa knows she must triumph over her enemies. A whole world is counting on her.
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| Original Title: | L'Inespérée |
| ISBN: | 9781782690 |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Oksa Pollock #1 |
| Literary Awards: | Prix Ados (2012), Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser for Jugendbuch (2012), Prix Ados Rennes Ille-et-Vilaine (2012) |
Rating Of Books The Last Hope (Oksa Pollock #1)
Ratings: 3.49 From 1505 Users | 125 ReviewsCriticism Of Books The Last Hope (Oksa Pollock #1)
I'm probably too old to truly enjoy this novel. I found it naive, boring and crying. The characters are flat and unlikeable. The conflict is a bit ridiculous.In truth, I didn't finish it. However, I am marking it as read just because I did suffer through 50% of it.Ok. So. This book IS NOT GOOD. I'm well aware of that fact. The writing is extremely sub-par, the characters are just kinda stupid, and their reactions to what happens in the book are just unrealistic and weird.The story itself is pretty tolerable to me, but the rather horrible writing just ruined the whole thing.I very rarely find myself disliking EVERY SINGLE character in a book. I almost always find at least ONE character who I truly enjoy reading about. This was not the case with this book.
This series has been heralded as the "next Harry Potter", which is always a bit unnerving. Originally written in French and recently translated into English. As far as the story goes, it's ok. It's not awesome and it certainly doesn't suck you in to the point you can't wait for the next book to come out. The only similarity between Harry Potter and this is that they both discovered they can do magic and have a few magical creatures and plants. There are loads of characters and creatures all with
Caveat: I am way outside the age of the target group and I read this book in the English translation.But ... a really good book should appeal to readers of any age and I've read (and thoroughly enjoyed) quite a few YA-novels in recent years. Like other reviewers, I fell victim to the 'next Harry Potter'-hype (in combination with Amazon's 99p-offer). Twice I was ready to call it quits while struggling through the beginning and about 1/3 into the novel I was just not prepared to waste any more
I like young adult fiction. Especially adventure fantasy. This book is a good read. The farfetchedness is ok, but the real issue is the time frame of events-fifteen impossible things before bedtime? and no gaps between!Also, The names for things and people are so random that it is hard to work out who or what is the subject being referred to.
While this started out feeling very much like another tired try at being the new Harry Potter, I actually grew to like it more and more as the story developed. Not amazing, but a fun read for kids 10/12+. I could have done without all the cutesy creatures and odd-sounding words for things, but I guess that's okay considering the target audience. Will give the second one a try as well.
I found this book very annoying in a lot of ways. The writing was clumsy and as much as I wanted to like Oksa, I mainly found her irritating. I did like that it was often quite dark in a way kids' books usually aren't, and it had enough moments where I enjoyed it that I nudged the rating up from a 2 to a 3. The book isn't very conclusive in and of itself; it's very much meant to be read as part of the series. By the end I was quite interested in the story and wanted to see what happened, but I
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