La Vera Storia Di Una Fairchild (2012) - Plot & Excerpts
Ehh... it's more of a 2.5I guess the beginning was pretty good, but it the story as a whole didn't really hook me or compel me to read more. I feel like in the middle, nothing really happens for about a hundred pages, and then BOOM! Suddenly, there's this whole twist and huge secrets that are revealed that made me go between "OMG! WHAT?!" and "C'mon... Really?" I liked the plot enough but the way the author explained things was confusing. After I finished, I didn't feel as satisfied as I expected I would be. And there are really so many questions left unanswered... I had been wanting to read this story for a while. It ended up being okay, but was a bit slow at parts with characters that weren’t all that engaging.I listened to this on audiobook and the audiobook was actually very well done. The narrator did an excellent job on character voices and it made for a pleasant listen.This is a story about a young girl named Una Fairchild who gets Written In (WI) to the Land of Story. There she has to figure out why she's a WI and who wrote her in. The Land of Story is in upheaval and it might be up to Una to save it.This is really just the first half of the story. Nothing is resolved and the book ends right in the middle of the story...something I am not overly fond of.The above being said I thought this book was decent but not great. I really enjoyed the idea of characters being written into stories (it was a like a simplified version of the Thursday Next series). I also enjoyed the idea of characters being type-cast and trained to be the sorts of characters they are assigned to be.Unfortunately I thought our heroine, Una, was extremely abrasive and obnoxious. I also thought the initial description of her as a quiet loner did not at all fit how she acted in Story...which was generally aggressive and easily offended. There were a few contradictions like that throughout the story.I also just got kind of bored with it all about halfway through. The story is fairly predictable and there is alot about the politics of the realm, which got a bit slow at points. In the end, even though it ends mid-story, I really wasn't all that curious about what will happen to these characters. Overall this is an okay story but nothing exceptional. The story was slow at parts,.predictable, and I thoroughly disliked the main character of Una. As a result, I probably won't read Story's End which ties up this duology.
What do You think about La Vera Storia Di Una Fairchild (2012)?
I thought the story was well written. It had great fantasy elements. The girl in the story, Una, is sucked in to a book that she is holding in her school library. She finds out that being "Written In" to Story is dangerous, because people could potentially hurt her. She begins attending classes with a new friend who knows her secret and eventually finds a portion of the reason she has been "Written In." Slightly disappointed in the ending. It was meant to be a cliffhanger ending to intrigue readers to read the next book, but wasn't well wrapped up. I do plan on reading the second book anyways because I can't wait to find out what happens to Una.
—pku
Ehh... it's more of a 2.5I guess the beginning was pretty good, but it the story as a whole didn't really hook me or compel me to read more. I feel like in the middle, nothing really happens for about a hundred pages, and then BOOM! Suddenly, there's this whole twist and huge secrets that are revealed that made me go between "OMG! WHAT?!" and "C'mon... Really?" I liked the plot enough but the way the author explained things was confusing. After I finished, I didn't feel as satisfied as I expected I would be. And there are really so many questions left unanswered...
—fbombh
Expected more adventure. Readable in genre for those who enjoy this type of book.
—Blueimpulsivemonkey
