One for Sorrow: The new heart-stopping, page-turning crime thriller for 2022 (Di Callanach, 7)

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I loved this book so much! Intense and beautiful and heartbreaking.’ Buki Papillon, author of An Ordinary Wonder Step one to reading One for Sorrow: Take everything you know about birds, symbiotic relationships, and how birds coexist and throw it in the trash. Step two: Next take all those species tidbits and anything you've read, seen on Youtube, or grown up knowing, and throw it in the trash. These behaviors are extremely sociopathic. The main character is a young girl who doesn't have any experience in dealing with people like her. Annie and the other girl don't owe her friendship or kindness or anything else. They ostracized her for a reason, and that reason is to protect themselves. Our main character, Annie, was also very annoying. She can’t stand up for herself, always complaining to her parents instead of solving her problems and can’t say no to her friends. She’s definitely a spoiled brat. What Annie didn't know is that her new friend is mean, bossy, highly umbareble and would get her in a lot of trouble. None of the other girls liked Elsie, so, they didn't like Annie either.

One for Sorrow | Helen Fields | 9780008379346 | NetGalley One for Sorrow | Helen Fields | 9780008379346 | NetGalley

Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 0.9643 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-WL-1200047 Openlibrary_edition I have no idea what’s the point of this book. The whole thing was pretty pointless and none of girls changed after this whole ordeal. The ending and resolution was very anticlimatic and dissapointing that I literally went “WTF??”.The Magpies. Many have already stated their distaste of how clichéd it is to make corvids evil, and I share that sentiment. But, it could’ve worked in the right author’s hands. Then they made a deal with insects to say they will never ever eat insects again if they contaminate carcasses. That's all of the insects made peace with via Tomar the owl. What are the birds eating now then? Why is this their doomsday solution? In elementary school, I was known as the class artist. I loved to read and draw but I hated writing reports. Requirements such as outlines, perfect penmanship, and following directions killed my interest in putting words on paper. All those facts -- who cared what the principal products of Chile were? To me, writing reports was almost as boring as math. And then. The entire subplot of Katya's rape, and bringing her child up to exact vengeance, I found both belittling and offensive. In the end, it actually turns out to be pointless anyway - which left me disgusted. Why write it if both characters eventually serve no purpose to the story? Why focus on something so vile in what is, at the end of the day, a children's book (...I think...)?

One for Sorrow by Mary Downing Hahn | Goodreads

Hahn’s latest middle-grade ghost story brings the supernatural to the 1918 Spanish influenza pandemic with all the disturbing force readers have come to love and dread.It did not read like a book. I felt like I was reading a very detailed plot synopsis off Wikipedia. Everything flowed by too fast, with nothing being fleshed out within what was being told. It did not feel genuine.. As already mentioned, it told way too much rather than show; probably the most "telling" book I have read, echoing another reviewer, and I agree. I swear 15% was shown while the 90% was told. All the characters read as flat slates, like I was looking over the rough sketches instead of fullfledged, believable characters they were supposed to be. It also did not feel finished, especially towards the end, in both parts. Rich and strange (and kitted out with an eye-catching cover), but stronger in the set pieces than the internal logic. I expected more from this author, especially since she is a well known children horror writer. I mean, she wrote Wait Till Helen Comes! I expected to be scared, but I ended up being annoyed. For the most part, the symbolic magpies suggest that only good things are going to happen. Whether silver or gold, the acquisition of wealth is not something that the average person is going to run away from. The first line, which alludes to oncoming sorrow, is the darkest in this version of the poem. In other longer versions of ‘One For Sorrow,’ the speaker mentions the devil, hell, and death darkening the overall tone of the song considerably.