What do You think about The Time-Traveling Fashionista On Board The Titanic (2012)?
Louise, a 12 year old "modern" Connecticut girl obsessed with vintage fashion, receives an invitation to attend a traveling vintage fashion sale, just in time for the school dance! She finds the perfect pink dress and when she tries it on she is suddenly transported nearly 100 years into the past and into the body of a 17 year old movie star! Louise finds herself on an extravagant state ship with famous people she's learn about in history class, and also a famous fashion designer, but she has to pretend to be Alice Baxter (the movie star who's body she has borrowed). If that wasn't challenging enough, she discovers that she is not just on any cruise ship, but probably the most famous ship in history! Can Louise find her way back to Connecticut, or can she change the course of history and avoid going down with the ship?What works: This book includes several beautiful watercolors of dresses and scenes of the ship. They are a sight to see even if the plot is not your cup of tea. I greatly appreciated that this was a book about a girl (young woman) with a cultivated interested that she took pride in and not once was it complicated by a relationship with a boy. Yes, Louise is interested in boys, and even has a flirtation with a boy on the ship, but when she finds out he's married she drops him like the creep he is. It is refreshing to see a girl with a identity that is not centered around a boy, but one that is wholly her own. What doesn't work: Louise is written as an older teen and doesn't act like the 12 year old that she is supposed to be. She does spend most of the book in the body of an older teen, and there is when her character feels most authentic. The idea of the plot is good but it is executed poorly. There was a lot of build up, and then the action spiraled out of control and ended abruptly.
—Theo
APA YANG LEBIH BAIK DARI FASHION DAN TIME TRAVEL DIGABUNG?!Itulah hal yang paling aku sukai dari novel ini. Fashion vintage digabungkan dengan sejarah dan menghasilakn novel yang ruuuar biasa :DApalagi didalam novel ini ada beberapa halaman khusus untuk gambar pakaian apa saja yang dikenakan oleh tokoh utama (meskipun betenya semua warnanya kenapa harus pink. Memangnya gambarnya gak ada warna lain selain pink?) sehingga kita lebih mudah membayangkannya.Berharap ada terjemahan novel kedua dan ketiga. Louis sudah sampai Mesir kalau sama penulisnya dan aku menunggu terjemahannya dari pihak bentang pustaka :"))
—Tone
OOHHHH I love this book! The dress is gorgeous!
—you
