Dear Adam - Ava Zavora
Published: 16/09/13
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages: 388
I am excited to be bringing you a review of Dear Adam as it tours. I was lucky enough to have the chance to read and review and I am really glad I signed up for this tour.
Dear Adam follows the story of Eden and Adam. Eden is a 30 something book blogger with a teenage son and a love for anything fictitious. One day, she is contacted on twitter by Adam, a seemingly likeminded, book loving man who starts to talk more and more frequently to her. As they venture into emailing, texting and skyping, Eden starts to develop feelings for Adam, but, having never met him or seen a picture of him, she isn’t completely sure if she can trust him. Is Adam really all he seems to be?
Dear Adam was a really interesting and unique book; the plot was totally original and I loved watching two people grow in love via the medium of twitter and email. Being a book blogger myself, I am all too familiar with the bonds you can form with other book bloggers and book lovers via twitter. I would count some of my twitter friends as some of my best friends, so, in many ways this book struck a chord with me.
I found this book to be fast paced which meant I read this in just two sittings, desperately turning the pages to find out how their affair would progress. I had a bit of a love/hate relationship with Eden. At first, I found her behaviour quite naïve and I was a little frustrated by her actions but, as the story progressed, I actually started to think that she behaved as most people would if they were in her position. There is a slight twist at the end which I wasn’t expecting and it actually managed to clear up some questions and annoyances I had about the likelihood of some of the events actually happening.
One of the only weaknesses about this novel was the lack of characters. There was Eden and Adam, and Eden’s son, but other than that, there were hardly any characters bought into the plot and explored in detail. I would loved to have found out more about Eden’s son and it would have been interesting to explore Eden’s group of friends a little more; there could have been some great little sub plots going on there. However, with the main focus on Adam and Eden it felt almost claustrophobic and you get completely caught up in the fast paced, passionate, scary affair they embark on.
Ava’s writing is impressive the whole way through and I loved the use of some many different mediums to tell the story. It was great seeing the tweets in the beginning which were limited to 140 characters, then they progressed to email, phone calls and texting. It was a really nice way to break the story up. I almost felt like a fly on the wall or a hacker, looking through all their emails!
I think this book will appeal to a wide audience and is extremely relevant in today’s internet obsessed society. I also think it will leave people a little more wary and a little more interested in finding out everything about the people they meet online.
A fast paced, fresh look at a new type of relationship that will have you hanging on every word, desperate to find out if the characters find their happy ending.
Publisher: CreateSpace
Pages: 388
I am excited to be bringing you a review of Dear Adam as it tours. I was lucky enough to have the chance to read and review and I am really glad I signed up for this tour.
Dear Adam follows the story of Eden and Adam. Eden is a 30 something book blogger with a teenage son and a love for anything fictitious. One day, she is contacted on twitter by Adam, a seemingly likeminded, book loving man who starts to talk more and more frequently to her. As they venture into emailing, texting and skyping, Eden starts to develop feelings for Adam, but, having never met him or seen a picture of him, she isn’t completely sure if she can trust him. Is Adam really all he seems to be?
Dear Adam was a really interesting and unique book; the plot was totally original and I loved watching two people grow in love via the medium of twitter and email. Being a book blogger myself, I am all too familiar with the bonds you can form with other book bloggers and book lovers via twitter. I would count some of my twitter friends as some of my best friends, so, in many ways this book struck a chord with me.
I found this book to be fast paced which meant I read this in just two sittings, desperately turning the pages to find out how their affair would progress. I had a bit of a love/hate relationship with Eden. At first, I found her behaviour quite naïve and I was a little frustrated by her actions but, as the story progressed, I actually started to think that she behaved as most people would if they were in her position. There is a slight twist at the end which I wasn’t expecting and it actually managed to clear up some questions and annoyances I had about the likelihood of some of the events actually happening.
One of the only weaknesses about this novel was the lack of characters. There was Eden and Adam, and Eden’s son, but other than that, there were hardly any characters bought into the plot and explored in detail. I would loved to have found out more about Eden’s son and it would have been interesting to explore Eden’s group of friends a little more; there could have been some great little sub plots going on there. However, with the main focus on Adam and Eden it felt almost claustrophobic and you get completely caught up in the fast paced, passionate, scary affair they embark on.
Ava’s writing is impressive the whole way through and I loved the use of some many different mediums to tell the story. It was great seeing the tweets in the beginning which were limited to 140 characters, then they progressed to email, phone calls and texting. It was a really nice way to break the story up. I almost felt like a fly on the wall or a hacker, looking through all their emails!
I think this book will appeal to a wide audience and is extremely relevant in today’s internet obsessed society. I also think it will leave people a little more wary and a little more interested in finding out everything about the people they meet online.
A fast paced, fresh look at a new type of relationship that will have you hanging on every word, desperate to find out if the characters find their happy ending.
Laura
