Book: Between The Lines by Jodi Picoult, Samantha Van Leer
Pages: 358
Genre: Young Adult, Fantasy
Source: Library
Short Synopsis: Delilah is a young girl in high school who is known as the school's outcast. Her life gets turned upside down one day when she reads her favorite fairy tale story, and the main character, the Prince, starts speaking to her.
My Thoughts: This is the first Picoult novel I've picked up, and I absolutely loved everything about it!
Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah.
And then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince. He’s a restless teen who feels trapped by his literary existence and hates that his entire life is predetermined. He’s sure there’s more for him out there in the real world, and Delilah might just be his key to freedom.
Delilah and Oliver work together to attempt to get Oliver out of his book, a challenging task that forces them to examine their perceptions of fate, the world, and their places in it. And as their attraction to each other grows along the way, a romance blossoms that is anything but a fairy tale.
--From Goodreads.
I was so surprised with this novel. I'm sure everyone who's a book lover always dream of a certain character having a conversation with you. Delilah is labeled as the school's outcast when she accidentally collides with one of the most popular girls in school, not once, but twice.
Delilah doesn't have many friends, and spends most of her time with books. She is attracted to one particular book, which is a child's fairy tale, and is infatuated with the main character, the Prince. It isn't until one day, while re-reading the novel, Delilah discovers that the characters inside the book, have a world of their own, and not everyone in the book is happy with what they have to do.
I enjoyed getting to know the characters inside Delilah's story, and the relationship she was building with the Prince. We get to see that the villain in the story, isn't really a villain, how the girl that the Prince was supposed to save, is in fact really in love with him, and mermaids in the story aren't what they seem. Delilah spends the majority of the novel trying to free the Prince from his unhappy role, but fails repeatedly. It isn't until Delilah gets the courage to meet the author of the book and tells her that she has to change her ending.
I wasn't much of a fan of how this particular novel ended, and definitely left some unanswered questions. But over all, I loved the uniqueness of the story, the illustrations within the novel, which made it feel like I was in fact reading a fairy tale, and the characters grow on you, making you root along with them for a happy ending of their own.
Would I recommend this book: Yes
Rating: I give this book a 4/5.
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