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Amazon Music Stream millions of songs. Amazon Drive Cloud storage from Amazon. Alexa Actionable Analytics for the Web. View all 8 comments. I first read this book in or I think this was my introduction to past lives.
I liked it enough then to keep this book all these years. I was feeling nostalgic and this book won. I'm a superstitious person so if I dreamed I was dead 3 nights in a row, I'd be kinda freaked out too. BUT once Delia gets the diary, she doesn't really try to resist much. When she goes to the old neighborhood then mention's it to Rose, she says it's no longer there.
I think Delia wrote the letter and from that point on, her aunt was dead. I really enjoy the 90's young adult horror books that I grew up reading. Very nostalgic for me to check out as an adult. It made me want to pick up this book sooner than usual. That's always a positive of these young adult horror novels that I like to check out from my childhood. The plot did keep me guessing and I got the reveal completely wrong which is good because these novels can be predictable at times. Interesting idea which I thought could've been very goo I really enjoy the 90's young adult horror books that I grew up reading.
Interesting idea which I thought could've been very good but the execution was a bit lacking although not bad. The characters were ok, nothing special at all, quite common actually but it's one of the tropes of these novels so I find it to be a little charming. The writing was fine, what I expected to see in these types of books.
I liked the small town USA setting. My favorite setting for horror novels. The main character Delia got on my nerves after a while lol I just wanted her to shut up sometimes It would've been cool to read some of the actual diary entries from the past girl but we just get told what was in it. It would've provided a nice contrast between Delia and the girl in the diary.
Maybe I would've liked her better as well lol. Rushed ending, that tried its best to tie up all the loose ends and piece everything together but didn't quite do that fully. I don't mind an author employing some form of ambiguity, I think it can work depending on the book, but this one just felt like it was very rushed and tried to end on a clever note that wasn't as clever as the author had hoped it would be.
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Not a bad read by any means but it could've been better in my opinion. But, entertaining for what it was. Normally I hate it when people complain about "telling instead of showing". I like to be told stuff! If somebody lives in a two-storey house and has a recently refurbished kitchen, how do you show rather than tell that information?!?
And if it's so bad to tell rather than show, why do so many books tell me every single damn road the main character drove down to get somewhere? Anyway, I'm going off tangent here Rather than have an actual entry from the diary itself so we can see for ourselves, we're just told that Delia is acting like the girl from the diary, with nothing from the diary itself to back it up!
I felt some entries from the diary would have given me some feeling for the girl who wrote it and how her personality was different from Delia. Instead, there are a lot of filler chapters the visit to the graveyard and silly end-of-chapter cliffhangers. In typical Point Horror style, I guess! I love the title and the intriguing premise, which is why I suppose this one really disappointed me!
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Apr 11, Fae rated it liked it Shelves: I grabbed this one not too long after I featured it in one of my Freaky Friday posts a while back and it definitely stands out from the other YA horror cheese of yore. I love it even more because of that. The premise itself is actually really great. A past life and a current one clash when the past life becomes conscious. It points it out in the book that it's like Delia almost has a split personality, which she pretty much does. So not only is it a bit ghosty type of horror but is throws in some I grabbed this one not too long after I featured it in one of my Freaky Friday posts a while back and it definitely stands out from the other YA horror cheese of yore.
So not only is it a bit ghosty type of horror but is throws in some psychological horror in there as well and it wasn't all that cheesy, believe it or not. I had a hard time guessing who the actual killer was. I've said it before and I'll say it again: I pretty much suck at picking up the subtle nuances that would denote something like that but that's besides the point. Every guess I made was wrong and there were quite a few red herrings to throw you off.
I think it's a bit better than some of the other cheese I've read simple because it's crafted a little better. It doesn't try too hard with the teenspeak, it doesn't go super crazy with the horror. The story just is and I really like that. It's freaky watching Delia transform into someone else against her will but it's not overdone. It's not subtle either but it's not wacky.
It's still got some cheese about it but it's pretty good about it. Dec 10, Bex rated it liked it Shelves: Average plot, no strong scares and an ending that isn't an ending.
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Not sure about this one which seems to mix up past lives with physical likeness, hallucinations and time lapse with an attempt at a horror story. May 04, Rebecca McNutt rated it really liked it. The book has good imagery, and though it has limited vocabulary it'd be good for reluctant readers. Oct 29, Rachael Hewison rated it liked it Shelves: It's Halloween- what better way to mark the occasion then reading a Point Horror. I loved these when I was growing up so I thought I would enjoy a bit of nostalgia.
When I first started reading it I did think 'why on earth did I like these books? However when I just switched that thinking off and just enjoyed it for the quick, easy, actually quite interesting book it was, then I did quite enjoy it. The plot was pretty unique and there were plenty of c It's Halloween- what better way to mark the occasion then reading a Point Horror. The plot was pretty unique and there were plenty of cliffhangers to keep you hooked. The one thing that would have made it much better was if we had read Laura' diary.
We only ever hear it second hand through Delia. Smith should have done it as a split narrative. Feb 01, Chloe Pudner rated it really liked it.
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We keep repeating them, coming back again and again, until we learn what it is we are supposed to learn. Until we are able to do that, history repeats itself again and again. I loved the concept of past lives the book carried out. I really enjoyed the fact that when reading the book, you can see the main character become more and more like the girl in the diary.
I especially liked not knowing who the killer was and being pleasantly surprised at the end of the book. Would reread this book! So, I love these campy, simple little '90s novels. I feel so nostalgic whenever I pick one up. This one was no exception. These books touch upon gruesome "mature" subject matter, yet their approach is infantile, leading me to want to scream: This was a very quick read for me. I think I chose this off my shelves because I needed to read something.
As a teen I enjoyed, as an adult I did not. Plot holes and a very annoying main character but I could get over that if the ending was good but it was rushed and ridiculous. Sep 30, Sati Marie Frost rated it really liked it Shelves: I always think of this book as one that I don't really like, and I'm not sure why. Maybe it was too subtle for me as a kid. I know that I didn't remember it terribly well, and it took a little while to get into this time, but once I was in I found I really liked it.
Delia is one of those introverted girls - shy, bookish and tied to a life with an ageing aunt who doesn't seem to like her much. She has no idea what she wants to do with her life after she graduates in a few weeks. When she finds a d I always think of this book as one that I don't really like, and I'm not sure why. When she finds a diary in her locker, she assumes it's a present from her boyfriend - she's an avid journaler, and it's just the kind of gift she'd love to get.
But it turns out that the diary isn't blank, it's full of the life story of another girl, and there's a mystery as to where and who it came from. Delia reads the diary, more and more of it every day, and slowly she starts becoming more and more like Laura, the girl who wrote it. Her personality changes and she becomes an extroverted party-girl. She dresses like Laura and gets her hair cut and dyed and her nails painted the way Laura had hers done. She picks up a paintbrush and discovers that she's a talented artist, despite never having painted before.
All good things, right? But she also starts skipping school, and being mean to her friends, and having violent fantasies about people who upset her A past life regression from the town psychic indicates that Delia has lived before, and she finds out that Laura died in a freak accident the day Delia was born. Except it wasn't an accident - it was murder Delia starts having visions of the past, including Laura's murder. I hope I've got the gist of the book down, and apologies if I got anything wrong. It's quite a complex story for a teenage horror book, and I've only read it once or twice so it's not etched into my memory the way childhood favourites are.
It's a good book, though, and I'll read it again in the future. Delia's a great character, and deeper than most of the protagonists in Point Horror novels. The transformation she goes through as Laura's personality takes over is eerie and surprisingly believable. I also didn't suspect the killer, which is always nice. On the whole, I thought it was a pretty great book. This is the Sinclair Smith I know and love, which is why The Waitress was such a bitter disappointment.