Amazing Grace (review)
2005; Johns Hopkins University Press; Volume: 59; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1353/bcc.2005.0291
ISSN1558-6766
Autores ResumoReviewed by: Amazing Grace Deborah Stevenson Shull, Megan Amazing Grace. Hyperion, 2005 [256p] ISBN 0-7868-5690-4$15.99 Reviewed from galleys M Gr. 7-10 Grace "Ace" Kincaid is a teenage tennis phenom, darling of the paparazzi and glamour girl of the glossy mags, when she decides that it's all gotten out of hand and that it's time to quit. Her understanding and capable mother whisks her out of the limelight to a hideaway on an Aleutian island under the care of Ava, an ex-FBI agent, where she'll be untouched by the press frenzy about her retirement. There she finds a rustic lifestyle very different from her hothouse existence; she also finds friends and, in the form of hunky Teague Denali, love. The book unfortunately throws away its one interesting hook, Grace's fame, right up front, and then devolves into an implausible tension-free story of bland romance. Characters are soap-operatically photogenic and they're filled with fortune-cookie wisdom (sometimes from their often vague and unspecified native background), and there's no sensation of development or change in any of the relationships. The style is perky and accessible, but it sinks far too often into sequences of brief sentences or fragments formatted as paragraphs, which chops up the rhythm without adding any much-needed drama. There are enough well-executed frothy romances for middle-schoolers (from Meg Cabot to Melissa Kantor) that this contrived entry simply doesn't stand up to the competition. Copyright © 2005 The Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois
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