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Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma Imaginary Girls Read Ebook {PDF EPUB} Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma Imaginary Girls. “Eerie and gripping and told with lush and inviting scenes, Imaginary Girls will haunt its readers. An intensely vivid portrayal of love and no-choice loyalty and power that has no easy answers.” —Aimee Bender, author of The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake. “A surreal little nightmare in book form. I just loved it. Nova Ren Suma’s voice is unique and riveting, and so is the indelible Ruby, who dominates the reader from the very first page. It’s the book everyone will be dying to talk about.” —Nancy Werlin, author of Impossible and Extraordinary. ★ “A surreal and dreamy world where magical thinking is carried to a chilling extreme. Suma uses the story’s supernatural horror movie–ready elements in the best of ways; beneath all the strangeness lies beauty, along with a powerful statement about the devotion between sisters.” — Publishers Weekly , Starred Review. ★ “A sexy, surreal, and touching exploration of the outer limits of sisterly love’s power.… This glittering puzzle box of a story about the exertion of one girl’s will over life and death is as moving as it is creepy.” — Kirkus Reviews , Starred Review. ★ “A strange, passionate tribute to sisterly bonds and an ominous, delicious tale that’ll scare everybody away from swimming for the summer, if not eternity.” — The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books , Starred Review. ★ “…An atmospheric piece that draws readers in and holds them through unexpected developments.” — School Library Journal , Starred Review. “There are ominous undertones to Nova Ren Suma’s poetic young-adult debut… With Imaginary Girls , Suma offers an atmospheric and creepy take on the life-and-death desperation of dysfunctional sibling love.” — The Los Angeles Times. “ Imaginary Girls will submerge its readers in an eeriness and intensity not often felt in YA literature.” — BookPage. “Suma’s mesmerizing page-turner is twisty as eelgrass . Original, atmospheric, and as spectrally gorgeous as its cover image, Imaginary Girls will keep teen readers wondering what lies in the depths.” — Chronogram Magazine “A story of sisterhood and secrecy set in a nightmarish New England version of Weetzie Bat ’s Los Angeles, full of delicious food, gorgeous imagery, and a very blurry line between reality and magic.” — ROOKIE. “Just hold on tight, channel your inner Shirley Jackson, and immerse yourself in one subtle and twisted sibling relationship, courtesy of Nova Ren Suma. Imaginary Girls is one original dark tale and a read I doubt I will forget.” — Bookslut. About the book: Chloe’s older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can’t be captured or caged. After a night with Ruby’s friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers a dead body floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away—away from home, away from Ruby. But Ruby will do anything to get her sister back, and when Chloe returns home at last, she finds a precarious and deadly balance waiting for her. As Chloe flirts with the truth that Ruby has hidden deeply away, the fragile line between life and death is redrawn by the complex bonds of sisterhood. Imaginary Girls is a masterfully distorted vision of family with twists that beg for their secrets to be kept. Audio edition from Recorded Books, narrated by Emma Galvin. wrapped up in books. Book Review: Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma. Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma. Published : June 14th 2011 by Speak/Penguin. Source : local library (audiobook) Synopsis (Goodreads) : Chloe’s older sister, Ruby, is the girl everyone looks to and longs for, who can’t be contained or caged. When a night with Ruby’s friends goes horribly wrong and Chloe discovers the body of her classmate London Hayes left floating in the reservoir, Chloe is sent away from town and away from Ruby. But Ruby will do anything to get her sister back, and when Chloe returns to town two years later, deadly surprises await. As Chloe flirts with the truth that Ruby has deeply hidden away, the fragile line between life and death is redrawn by the complex bonds of sisterhood. My thoughts : A regular from my book club submitted a review to the Teen Zone blog, which is what initially put this book on my radar. I’d been meaning to read it for a year before I finally checked out the audiobook to listen to on my early morning commute this past semester. Not only can i recommend the book to fans of creepy young adult literature with gorgeous prose, the excellent narration that completely captured the dreamy, otherworldly story makes it a solid recommendation to fans of audiobooks. This novel is so different from the standard young adult fare, and the plot is rather difficult to explain. What makes it stand out is not only the writing, which is excellent, even exquisite, but the story. Instead of focusing on a romance, the central romance is between two sisters. Chloe, the younger sister, narrates a tale that on its surface, is familiar to anyone who has lived in a small town. Teenagers party on the shores of the sleepy, small-town’s resevoir. One night Ruby, the older sister, declares that her younger sister, who is an excellent swimmer, can cross the resevoir in the darkness of night and return with proof of her successful voyage. Except what Chloe finds, when she accepts the challenge, is a boat with a dead body in it. The body belongs to a classmate, London, and due to the trauma, Chloe goes to live with her dad. But Ruby finds Chloe, and brings her back under her influence. And Chloe learns that London is not dead, despite the obituary her mom mailed her after she’d moved in with her dad. London is very much alive, and Ruby is still a driving force in town, one of those girls who everyone hates but secretly wants to be. The girl who has everyone wrapped around her finger. Hidden as deep as the town that was flooded to create the resevoir is the truth of this novel, the truth of Ruby. In absolutely magical prose, Nova Ren Suma entrances readers to follow this mind-boggling story until the end. This book is for the dissastisfied reader who wants more from a story. It’s for readers who are comfortable with an unreliable narrator and a frustratingly slow plot. It’s moody and dark and atmospheric. It’s not for every reader, but those who crave a thought-provoking, creepy read will love this book. The audio version is fantastic. Emma Galvin, who reader’s may recognize from Winter’s Bone by Daniel Woodrell (another favorite of mine) or the Divergent audiobooks, and her dreamy narration fit the story perfectly. Recommended for fans of : Though nothing is quite like this story, readers might also enjoy books by Courtney Summers or Adele Griffin. Second opinions : The Book Smugglers: “ Imaginary Girls is very creepy, uncomfortable and disturbing.” Kim from Stacked Books: “What ultimately sets this book apart is its writing. Nova Ren Suma has created a deliciously creepy book full of odd happenings all seen through a sort of haze. It’s difficult to get a handle on what’s really going on, because Chloe herself isn’t always sure. That aspect gives the book a feeling of magical realism rather than straight up fantasy or paranormal. And even though Imaginary Girls has elements of the paranormal, which can be found in so many current YA books, you’ll come away from it knowing you’ve really never read anything like it.” Cuddlebuggery: “The atmosphere, meanwhile, is eerie and bewitching, so dreamy in quality that you spend a good portion of the novel pondering the validity of it all. What is real? What is not? Suma just pulls you under and keeps you entranced for the entirety of the story. Once the tale has been told, you emerge with a feeling of satisfying bewilderment and hushed appreciation.” Late Nights with Good Books: “From an aesthetic standpoint, Imaginary Girls is pretty much perfect. Nova Ren Suma is clearly a talented writer, and her dreamy, poetic description imbued a sense of wonder in me as the reader. Her writing works with small-town life tropes and examines the bonds of sisterhood in new ways. By reading even a few pages of her work, readers can easily find themselves walking along the rocks that border the reservoir, starting into its dark, murky depths.” (#71) Book Review: Imaginary Girls by Nova Ren Suma. For Chloe, it has always been her sister Ruby: Ruby, whose mere presence seems to make people want to please her however they can. Whatever Ruby says is law. When Ruby tells Chloe to swim across the reservoir, Ruby does it. But when she discovers the body of a classmate, Ruby and Chloe are separated. Two years later, Ruby reappears in Chloe’s life and convinces her to come back. Things are not as Chloe left them, though, and as she gets closer to the truth of what Ruby has done, she realizes that her bond with her sister might not ever be the same. There’s an inherent problem in trying to review Nova Ren Suma’s beautiful, haunting book about the bond between two sisters: it’s so good and so complicated that I feel overwhelmed before I even begin. However, because I believe this book to be one of the best published this year as well as an important book in the genre of magical realism, I’ll do my best to review it.
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