Ketchup Clouds

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And Zoe isn't only preoccupied by romance and relationships for she's having a difficult time at home.

Ketchup Clouds won the 2013 Waterstone Children’s Book Prize, was named a YALSA Best Fiction for Young Adults pick, and was nominated for the 2014 Edgar Allen Poe Award for Best Young Adult Fiction. I guess you know what they say: you shouldn’t judge a book by a gorgeous cover, a wonderful title and… well, you get the gist.

It would be awesome if Goodreads had a similar system (hint, hint) instead of basing ratings on how others rated a book. Fans of My Sister Lives on the Mantelpiece can breathe a sigh of relief, Annabel Pitcher has produced another sure fire winner. I think this was the perfect book for me to read at the right time, which probably supports the 4-star rating. The family rows, the teenage angst, the blossoming relationships with boys, the responsibilities of being the older sibling, but at the same time she doesn't give much away. Přemýšlela jsem a jsi pravděpodobně jediný člověk z celého vesmíru, který má šanci mě pochopit, takže se ti svěřím.

Ketchup Clouds vividly captures the terrifying roller coaster of emotion that envelopes Zoe when she gets caught in a tragic love triangle between two brothers. I like winter and I like the dark and I like cats and I like the rain and I like walking up mountains and sitting at the top in the fog .And for the record (aside from its strange title), I chose Ketchup Clouds because of its cover (haha can't help it) and its interesting synopsis that got me curious all along. Sadly, this fierce but delicately orchestrated novel ends on a bum note: a letter from the surviving brother to Zoe that is both patronising and mawkish.

Primarily, however, the problem is the forced suspense, as it impairs the entire plot and character development.I just know for a fact that had I read this book when I was fifteen, it would’ve been an all time favourite and I probably would’ve orbited my personality around it. The images are more real, and my pulse is racing racing racing, and I bet if my heart was attached to one of those hospital things, all the fast thumping would break it. In the story, Zoe has a secret she is too afraid to tell anyone, so she chooses to unburden herself by writing anonymous letters to a stranger. Riddled with guilt over the death of her boyfriend, she confides in her penpal about her guilt, family life, and all the events leading up to the sad conclusion.

This booklist includes books that feature deafness as a key theme, books with a deaf protagonist, and books that happen to include children with hearing aids and cochlear implants, in a subtle and natural way. Kečupové oblaky sú pre mňa tento rok najúprimnejšia a najautentickejšia výpoveď tínedžerského rozprávača. She cannot tell anyone, not even her closest friends, that she is writing a letter to an Texas death row prisoner. Besides, the way Pitcher unfurls the plot is as interesting as the plot itself (which creaks a tiny bit, to be honest). She is overwhelmed with the guilt that comes with causing the death of somebody close to you and she cannot possibly tell anyone the truth aside from Mr.Y sin pensármelo dos veces, sin preocuparme por las consecuencias, le agarré la cara y tiré de ella hacia la mía, y nuestras bocas se encontraron con tanto ímpetu que me dolió de la forma más dulce posible. This book was like a pleasant journey, which took a number or wrong turns and finally resulted in toppling off a cliff. It becomes infuriating to listen to her life as she keeps making mistakes and being rewarded by being loved and adored by all who know her, and being melodramatic about her own guilt (while, seemingly, to not have learnt much to apply to her current/future behaviour). The concept and characters all felt so real and I really enjoyed reading this book and seeing how the story unfolded. Dealing with some complex and difficult themes and issues, Ketchup Clouds is perhaps best suited to older teenage readers.