Finishing Unexpected/Review

This weekend I finished my book Unexpected! I'm so upset because I was really enjoying my book and hope that the author writes a sequel. i am expecting a sequel very soon because she left quite the cliffhanger at the end. Yet the end did satisfy the readers and I heard she was getting very positive review of the book overall. The author's cliffhanger is making all of us sappy love story readers think and freak out because the ending scene Katrina was throwing up in the bathroom. Everyone was left with her gasping and then crying because of her realization. So everyone is left wondering if it's true, is Katrina pregnant?

This freaky ending summed up the book perfectly. the author did an awesome job filling in the cracks and questions that she didn't answer. Such as when Katrina wouldn't feel well and Nash and her would stay in for the night. Or when Katrina couldn't blame her moodiness on her period because she hadn't gotten it. Anyways, I'm looking forward to a sequel. I would love to find out how Nash would react to this type of news and how he would treat Katrina. Overall i loved the book and would recommend it to anyone who loves sappy teen romance.

Close to finishing Unexpected!

I am so excited to finish my book Unexpected. Especially because some drama is beginning to unfold and the plot is twisting and turning. Katrina and Nash had figured things out and had become more stable in their relationship. The story consisted of more dates and movie nights and a great night at the beach and fair with a group of friends. But after Nash and Katrina got home from the fair, Nash received a phone call from his old girlfriend Vicky. Nash had caught her in the act of cheating earlier when they were dating. Vicky told Nash she still loved him and wanted to see him. Nash was annoyed and told her to leave Katrina and him alone. When Katrina asked who was on the phone she was very annoyed and curious because Nash unexpectedly left the room an then told her it was his father. Katrina is very annoyed at Nash because she knows he is lying but she chose not to investigate further.

I feel as if Katrina and I were friends we would get along just as my best friend and I do right now. Katrina has the personality of my best friend, sweet, kind, funny, loving, and has a great boyfriend. Yet I feel as if Katrina lets Nash walk over her too much. Where as my best friend stands up for what she believes is right. I wish Katrina would just talk to Nash when she has a concern, but I assume the reason why she doesn't is because she is afraid of him. But the author has ways of hinting something big is going to happen right at the ending. I hope there isn't a major cliffhanger because I will definatly have to read the ending! Here is a quote from when Katrina finds Nash slumped on a chair in the backyard after hanging up with Vicky,

"Yeah...yeah I'm fine, that was my dad, he just says hello."
"Oh," was all I had said. I stepped down onto the patio ground and expressed a weak smile towards him. "I hope he's doing well."

Blog Assignment #1

 

I believe my best blog post is Unexpected Change in Unexpected. This was published on April 7^th. I put my best effort in this blog when trying to incorporate my own voice. I use my voice when I describe the main character’s feelings while hiding from her boyfriend in the bathtub, “A situation like this truly scares me and I wonder while reading the book how I would handle something like this should I be in Katrina's place.” This specific example of voice shows how I care deeply for my main character and how she is going to handle this situation. As a writer I hope I can describe the events in Unexpected and make my readers understand what I feel as Katrina goes through her experiences.

            Also while writing my blogs; I try to give the audience as much information as I can without giving away the story. I describe in two or three paragraphs each time the newest twists and turns in the plot and what I hope will happen in the next chapters to come. I keep my word choice like how I normally talk so the blog almost comes off as a comfortable conversation with my readers. This quote from my blog post shows how my voice is present and my diction and syntax is present while explaining the events from my book, “As I continue reading in Unexpected, I was tip-toeing through the last two chapters fearing some sort of drama would start in between Nash and Katrina. Turns out my assumption was right, and Nash did surprise Katrina and I by freaking out one night when he came home from being with his friends.” I also believe that this enhances my voice and makes my blogs worth reading. Using informal diction and medium sentence length strengthens my writing voice as I tell the story of the characters in Unexpected throughout my blogs.

 

Character Development

While reading Unexpected Katrina has become the most devolved character. The story is told from both Nash's and Katrina's point of views, but Nash's views are short chapters. Nash has not shown much emotion other than saying how much he adores Katrina. Katrina shows much more emotion than Nash when she tells about her past life and her confused emotions about Nash and his friends. Katrina is still not being 100% herself around  Nash  because of when he attacked him on the bathroom. But I haven't read that much since my last blog due to time commitments. 

Katrina does aggregate me when she continues to hold Nash's outlast against him. He keeps buying her flowers and trying to apologize saying he won't do it again. If I was in her place I would either leave Nash or forgive him and do my best to move on. 

Katrina seems to be a dynamic character because she is coming out of her Schell and expressing herself more. She has made more friends and is starting to paint to relieve stress. I hope she become comftorable in her environment and most importantly in her own skin. Because she is described to be a beautiful girl who deserves to have confidence. Below is what I picture her to loo like:

Krista Ramsey

Krista Ramsey's style of writing is informative, yet she also tells a story with it. Her writing highlights everyday stories with facts and a broader topic. Ramsey also includes the harsh truth and puts the facts right out on the table.

 In her one article, speaking about the passing of 14 year-old Tyann she keeps it to a narrator viewpoint while showing sympathy from her grandmother's comments and describing the details of that Saturday morning. Some readers like myself, find articles like these very helpful in understanding about news in the tristate. But I almost feel guilty reading this and finding out the details of something so sad. I feel as if i don't have the right to know this or make assumptions about the scenario. Yet I was curious to discover more about what happened that day when my English teacher first brought it up.

 I respect and like Krista's style of writing when it comes to her columns, I could never write about something like this. I wouldn't be able to hold my ground during an interview. Or i could do something worse and make my column sound biased. Often times I sit and picture myself writing, I come up with a brilliant story to write and even write down lists of things I could add to the plot. I started one of those stories a couple weeks ago and I keep disappointing myself. I have been taught from a very young age to set very high expectations for myself and to follow through with everything you start. So when I start to write and my writing isn't looking the way I want, I stop. Our of pure dissatisfaction.

 I wish I could learn how to write just to inform and entertain like Krista Ramsey. I feel like I would write more often and be proud that I was being a help for others and readers.

Nash changing?

As I continue reading  Unexpected I have begun to keep worrying about Katrina's relationship am trust in Nash. So after Nash chased her through their home and banged on the door screaming at her because he was mad she wanted to leave a rave, Katrina fell asleep in the bathtub. She woke up still in the bathtub and Nash was asleep on the other side of the door. Katrina let Nash apologize but didn't say one word to him the whole day. He just continued to baby her and make her food and let her cuddle with him. Katrina didn't talk because she was scared and confused about Nash's actions the night before. 

If I was placed in Katrina's position I would be doing the exact same thing, I probably would have already left and run far far away from him. But I can understand why Katrina is staying with Nash, probably because she feels safe at his big home and is already running from one ex-boyfriend. I would have just stayed or lived in the basement and let the relationship between me and Nash dwindle if he did this again. Because everyone gets mad, but when things get talked to an abusive level that's when they get serious. So I hope Katrina makes her future decisions like I would because If she doesn't I will loose interest in Unexpected very quickly, that is only because I want the best for my relationships in my cheesy teenage novels. 

Unexpected turn in Unexpected!

As I continue reading in Unexpected, I was tip-toeing through the last two chapters fearing some sort of drama would start in between Nash and Katrina. Turns out my assumption was right, and Nash did suprise Katrina and I by freaking out one night when he came home from being with his friends. Katrina was ignoring Nash because of his behavior during the day, but Nash surprised her by screaming at her and becoming very close to hitting her. Nash chased her all the way upstairs into the bathroom where Katrina locked herself in and slept in the bathtub. The sad and ironic part about Nash's recent behavior is that Katrina has just run away from her ex-boyfriend who was very abusive.
Katrina begins to panic as she hides from Nash's rage,

"leave me alone Nash! You're overreacting!" frantically looking for a place to hide. His footsteps pounding around the hallway and I sat silently in the tub, praying he wouldn't hurt me. I'm terrified of what might happen, because I know boys are capable of faking their nice guy attitude and suddenly snapping."

I really feel horrible for Katrina when she is in this position with Nash because I have never experienced pain like this. A situation like this truly scares me and I wonder while reading the book how I would handle something like this should I be in Katrina's place. I hope that Nash calms down and truly isn't like this especially to her after she just ran away from her ex-boyfriend. I wish i could give Katrina a hug right now because she is so scared and ends up cutting her foot very badly on glass from a picture Nash threw at her while she was running. But i also wonder how Nash will act in the next chapter towards Katrina. Hopefully something very very good will come out of this incident and I wonder if Katrina will take Nash back if he apologizes. But I do know for a fact that I am addicted to Unexpected, because everything is unexpected!

This is Nash!

 

Unexpected

             Recently I have started reading a book called Unexpected by Jess Smith. The book is a little laid back but still very interesting and that's what makes me interested in what I read. The main character is Katrina, and she has been running away from an abusive ex-boyfriend. I don't know why, but I always tend to read and enjoy books much more when they are sappy romance novels. So far, Katrina has had a run in with her ex, Brian, and was luckily saved by a passing bystander Nash. Nash was very helpful to Katrina and offered her a house and money and even a job when he discovered what type of life she lived after giving her a ride home from her attack. The kindness of Nash and the stubbornness of Katrina seems to be working out into a blooming romance.

               Now I know this book may sound wayyy to cheesy but I love reading stuff like this. Something about the way the book is written and the constant plot twist and bad moments keep me intrigued. Each cliff-hanger at the end of a chapter make me just want to keep on reading and help  me really get deeply into these books. The sad thing about reading romance novels is sometimes the characters start having large issues and the unexpected happens. Like in another book I read called After, the two "lovebirds" had a confrotation sending the girl into a major depression that took up the last almost 20 chapters. I am realluy scared that something along the lines of the plot of After could soon happen in Unbroken because things have been going very smoothly in Katrina and Nash's flirtationship. I have called it a flirtationship because they are slowly inching their way to a real dating relationship instead of just calling themselves friends. The title of this book also infers some type of tension.

Fahrenheit 451: Clarisse

Ray Bradbury has created a peculiar character named Clarisse is his novel Fahrenheit 451. Clarisse befriends the main character Montag while he is walking home one night from his job as a fireman. Clarisse is described and very ghostly thin, wearing a white dress what matches her pale skin and white hair. Yet despite her dark eyes and hollow face she has this gorgeous beauty. Clarisse interests me by making me wonder about what she does and how she seems so different from the other people in her society. Montag feels the same way when he says,

"How odd. How strange. And my wife thirty and yet you seem so much older at times. I can't get over it."
 

Montag and I are trying to piece together Clarisse at the same time. Clarisse seems to have figured out the pieces to the puzzle of society that can't fit perfectly. While riding the jet train she has listened to people only talk about simple things such as cars, clothes, pools, and responding with how swell. When Clarisse shares things with Montag her intelligence throws his perspective of her and his job off. The people in her society seem blank and boring to her world, where everything is in color and has a deeper meaning that the world intends things to have. When Clarisse asks Montag,

"Are you happy?'
 

she causes something to stir inside of him as well as me, playing the role of the reader.  The question immediatly reminded me of Alice in Wonderland. Clarisse being Alice, wandering in her own world of fun and appreciating the small quirky things in life. By asking questions to Montag Clarisse also manages to ask the reader questions that we can relate to our lives today. Her perculiarness draws us into the story, growing deeper with each scene she is present in. Montag even is bewildered when Clarisse begins to dig into him with her questions. When she mentions how he is different from other fire fighters, his mind cannot wrap around hpw she discovered this and her comments and presence will continue to make Montag and readers question their own actions.