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| ISBN: | 0670011533 (ISBN13: 9780670011537) |
| Edition Language: | English URL http://home.comcast.net/~jenniferrhubbard/index.htm |
| Characters: | Julia von Mirbach, Colt, Kirby |
| Literary Awards: | Romantic Times Reviewers' Choice Award (RT Award) Nominee for Best Young Adult Novel (2010) |
Jennifer R. Hubbard
Hardcover | Pages: 192 pages Rating: 3.61 | 4370 Users | 631 Reviews
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| Title | : | The Secret Year |
| Author | : | Jennifer R. Hubbard |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 192 pages |
| Published | : | January 7th 2010 by Viking Juvenile |
| Categories | : | Young Adult. Romance. Contemporary. Fiction. Realistic Fiction. Teen. Death |
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Take Romeo and Juliet. Add The Outsiders. Mix thoroughly.Colt and Julia were secretly together for an entire year, and no one, not even Julia's boyfriend, knew. They had nothing in common, with Julia in her country club world on Black Mountain and Colt from down on the flats, but it never mattered. Until Julia dies in a car accident, and Colt learns the price of secrecy. He can't mourn Julia openly, and he's tormented that he might have played a part in her death. When Julia's journal ends up in his hands, Colt relives their year together at the same time that he?s desperately trying to forget her. But how do you get over someone who was never yours in the first place?
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Ratings: 3.61 From 4370 Users | 631 ReviewsNotice About Books The Secret Year
I'm going through my posts and while there have been a few books I really didn't like, I don't think I've ever called a book trash before. Even when I say the only alternate use I could imagine for a book is fire wood, I try to point out anything positive I noticed. Jennifer Hubbard's novel (really more of a novella) is trash. I would like to call it intellectual trash, but it isn't even that. I hate to be so hard on a debut author, especially when the foundation for the story is so brilliant. AI've been avoiding writing this review. Not because it was bad, far from it, but because it was really really good and I wanted to convey how I felt about it accurately.Being a person who did lose a significant other in high school, I totally related to this book. In fact, I was the same age as Colt too. It's a really hard thing, and I think it's harder as a teenager because your hormones are out there and the emotions you feel that young are so raw and untapped. A lot of times you're feeling
When I first saw that this was a story told from a male point-of-view, I wasn't sure if I was going to like it--I tend to not like emotional stories told from guys. But The Secret Year was a pleasant surprise.There were two main characters in the story--Colten, who is the narrator, and Julia, who we learn more about and read from the pages of the diary. Their secret romance is very Romeo-and-Juliet-like. And while I felt that Colt was down-to-earth and real, I found myself disliking Julia and
The Book I read it was "The Secret Year" by jennifer R. Hubbard.I can't compare this book with any other books. The only thing i didn't liked was the end, it was so confuse for me, because I was inspecting more, and then PUFF! "The end", in the same river that they used to meet, but just this time was inside in it. The book has very strong flashback, and the girl communicated with him through her letters. Well, i did liked the book, a little romance, lost of secrets and insteresting thoughts.
The premise of this book was intriguing. After a year in a secret relationship, Julia dies leaving Colt to mourn her in silence. With all that bottled up grief, it could have been good, but nothing in the book is explored. Hubbard brushes past those first critical six weeks after Julia's death in a few chapters and then continues to skim from scene to scene without delving into anything. The whole book is tell, tell, tell. Even in the last chapter, Colt is summarizing tidbits of his relationship
Perhaps a more fitting title to this novel would have been "The Secret Year I had Sex, more sex and more sex and more sex.Colt Morrissey has always lived in the flats, while all the rich kids live on Black Mountain, the paths don't associate, its not a big deal to Colt, its just life. That feeling changes during the summer when he begins a secret affair with Julia, a beautiful girl from Black Mountain. Julia has her own life, full of country club parties, friends and a popular boyfriend Austin.
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