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A review by jenno
Sunkissed by Jenny McLachlan
2.0
This summer I'm abroad (I'm Swedish) and we got this book in the book shop where I work. Feeling a bit homesick, reading at the back that Kat (our main character) gets banished to Sweden for the summer. "The land of saunas, nudity" oh my! I thought this could be a fun read.
I didn't realize that this was in a series but it didn't really matter.
I read this literally in two hours. That's not saying that I enjoyed it that much but the font is huge and the story is predictable.
Vane girl gets sent to Sweden for behaving badly. She gets to an island in the archipelago outside of Stockholm to stay with her aunt. She hates it. She can't even get a signal on her phone. How will she survive?
Enter boy. They fall for each other but of course there are problems.
Kat needs to show that she's not "blåst" (an airhead) by getting fit and compete in a race around the island.
Have you guessed how this will end yet?
I wanted this to be cute, a light read that would make me, for a moment, be in the Swedish summer.
It had all the Swedish elements but I wasn't really drawn in by the story. Also it's only cute in the last like two pages.
The cover also has a quote from the Sunday Times saying it's hilarious.
Trust me, it isn't.
A thing that bothered me the most, which is because I'm Swedish, is the mistakes in Swedish this book has. Some words and sentences are written in Swedish, being set in Sweden and Kat being half Swedish BUT THEY ARE WRONG!
I marked all the wrongs with exclamation marks, writing how it should be in the margins. It really annoyed me.
Not all them are wrong, but many of them. As someone who doesn't speak Swedish you wouldn't noticed, I guess. But it would have been pretty easy to fix, before the book was published.
This might look like an angry review, and it isn't. I just thought that this book didn't deliver on what the back of it made me think. And what the cover suggests.
I know that I'm way older then the target group of this, but still I'm just disappointed in this.
I didn't realize that this was in a series but it didn't really matter.
I read this literally in two hours. That's not saying that I enjoyed it that much but the font is huge and the story is predictable.
Vane girl gets sent to Sweden for behaving badly. She gets to an island in the archipelago outside of Stockholm to stay with her aunt. She hates it. She can't even get a signal on her phone. How will she survive?
Enter boy. They fall for each other but of course there are problems.
Kat needs to show that she's not "blåst" (an airhead) by getting fit and compete in a race around the island.
Have you guessed how this will end yet?
I wanted this to be cute, a light read that would make me, for a moment, be in the Swedish summer.
It had all the Swedish elements but I wasn't really drawn in by the story. Also it's only cute in the last like two pages.
The cover also has a quote from the Sunday Times saying it's hilarious.
Trust me, it isn't.
A thing that bothered me the most, which is because I'm Swedish, is the mistakes in Swedish this book has. Some words and sentences are written in Swedish, being set in Sweden and Kat being half Swedish BUT THEY ARE WRONG!
I marked all the wrongs with exclamation marks, writing how it should be in the margins. It really annoyed me.
Not all them are wrong, but many of them. As someone who doesn't speak Swedish you wouldn't noticed, I guess. But it would have been pretty easy to fix, before the book was published.
This might look like an angry review, and it isn't. I just thought that this book didn't deliver on what the back of it made me think. And what the cover suggests.
I know that I'm way older then the target group of this, but still I'm just disappointed in this.