Reseña de ARC: Rewritten (Unwritten 2)

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Rewritten (Unwritten #2)

by  

Tara Gilboy

 200 pages

Published April 7th 2020 by Jolly Fish Press

ISBN: 163163433X (ISBN13: 9781631634338)

Edition Language: English

Series: Unwritten #2

BLURB: After learning the truth about her own fairy tale, twelve-year-old Gracie wants nothing more than to move past the terrible things author Gertrude Winters wrote about her and begin a new chapter in the real world. If only things were going as planned. On the run from the evil Queen Cassandra, the characters from Gracie’s story have all been forced to start over, but some of them cannot forget Gracie’s checkered past. Even worse, Gracie discovers that as long as Cassandra has her magical book, the Vademecum, Gracie’s story is still being written and none of the characters are safe, including her mom and dad. In a desperate attempt to set things right, Gracie finds herself transported into another one of Gertrude’s stories—but this one is a horror story. Can Gracie face her destiny and the wild beast roaming the night, to rewrite her own story?"

3 manage-your-storyline stars

This is a middle grade fantasy very much in the vein of "Once Upon a Time". {Even if Cassandra wish for in her best day to be like Regina (maybe she is more alike Cruella) ...

and Gracie wish for to be like Henry}

Gracie is a 12 year old that, after the first book, has abandoned the literary world of Bondoff to the real world. 

Her parents, her friend Walter, and his parents, live with the author Gertrude Winters. Gracie wants to live a normal life, go to school, have friends, and prove to everyone that she is not a villain (I guess she hasn't seen 'Descendants' yet and hasn't found out that the villains are 'it').

But she is still persecute by 'glimmers' - visions of another places and terrible things.

When one of her nightmares haunts her into her new life, she is forced once again into a story of which she knows nothing except it's some gothic horror. The story there feels there too simple and rush, just a tale, and Gracie appears somewhat pigheaded insisting that the characters must flee to the 'real world' as if that were the only solution for everything; and by then we already know that it is not. Without the rules of the magical contraption we are just improvising here.

Since everything is about a writer and her characters resisting their destinies, a relationship between destiny and self-determination can be inferred throughout this story. About our past, and how we can exceed our limits. About how a person, a relationship (in this case, the writer with her daughter and her ex-husband), can determine not only her life but other lives.

“Run away? Walter said that’s what you have done.”
“I didn’t say we ran away,” Walter interjected. “We wanted to be free from the things Gertrude wrote.”
“It sounds like running from who you are,” Bryant said.
“We are not the things Gertrude wrote about us!” Gracie said.
Bryant raised one eyebrow. “Why shouldn’t you be? Aren’t we all a culmination of our pasts: where we come from, our family histories, our heritage? Don’t those things make us who we are today? Who am I without Blackwood Hall? It’s my inheritance, my legacy.”

Walter, in the other hand, shows that is up for more maturing and growth.

The book feels like something is missing. I'm not sure what.

I like that it's about love for books.

Romance? No.

Diversity? Hmm, no.

Bad words? No.

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Esta es una fantasía para niños muy similar a "Once Upon a Time". {Incluso si Cassandra desearia en su mejor día ser como Regina (tal vez ella se parece más a Cruella) ; y Gracie ya se desearia ser como Henry}

Aunque un peli si parece

[Aunque un pelito si se parece
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Gracie tiene 13 años y, después del primer libro, abandonó el mundo literario de Bondoff para ir al mundo real. Sus padres, su amigo Walter y sus padres viven con la autora Gertrude Winters. Gracie quiere vivir una vida normal, ir a la escuela, tener amigos y demostrarle a todos que no es una villana (supongo que todavía no ha visto 'Descendientes' y no ha descubierto que los villanos son la bomba. ) Pero todavía se ve perseguida por 'destellos': visiones de otros lugares y cosas terribles.

Cuando una de sus pesadillas la persigue hasta su nueva vida, se ve forzada a entrar una vez más dentro de una historia de la que no sabe nada excepto que es acerca de horror gótico. La historia que se siente ahi demasiado simple y apresurada, solo un cuento, y Gracie parece algo majadera insistiendo en que los personajes deben huir al "mundo real" como si esa fuera la única solución para todo; y para entonces ya sabemos que no es así. Sin las reglas del artilugio mágico, solo estamos improvisando aquí.

Como todo se trata de una escritora y sus personajes que se resisten a sus destinos, se puede inferir una relación entre el destino y la autodeterminación a lo largo de esta historia. Sobre nuestro pasado y cómo podemos superar nuestros límites. Sobre cómo una persona, una relación (en este caso, la escritora con su hija y su ex esposo), puede determinar no solamente su vida sino otras vidas.

Walter, por otro lado, muestra que está listo para una mayor maduración y crecimiento.

Al libro parece que falta algo. No estoy seguro de qué.

Me gusta que se trata de amor por los libros.

¿Romance? No.

Diversidad? Hmm, no

Malas palabras? No.

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