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zapkode's review
4.0
{My Thoughts} – Morgan is a teenage girl that has lived in a family that has given her a cushy life. They have provided for her, made her feel safe, protected her and did what they thought was right for her.
Morgan soon finds out that her nice life, it isn’t what she had grown to believe is true. She learns that her family has been keeping a bunch of secrets when it comes to her mother’s family. She learns that there is so much going on within her house that she is having a hard time figuring out what is real, what isn’t real, who is real, who isn’t real and how she is suppose to feel about it all in the end.
Eventually she takes matters into her own hands. She tries to find out what everyone has been hiding from her.
I appreciate Morgan’s character in this book to an extent. I found her to be an overly opinionated, life isn’t fair, why does no one tell me the truth person. I didn’t like her constant whining throughout the book, I didn’t enjoy that she thought she had the right to insert herself into her parents business. I don’t think she had the right to act like her life was coming to an end, because her parents didn’t share hurtful information from her past with her. I also didn’t think she was a smart character for traveling from New Jersey to Brooklyn alone to meet people she didn’t know from Adam and was warned by bother her parents weren’t good in the past. I personally had I been her parent would have grounded her until her graduation.
There were some good points in the book. She had a nice friendship with her two best friends. She had supportive parents beside the fact that she constantly did as she pleased. She also did a great justice for some individuals that she hardly knew. It showed that she had the ability to be self less in a sense, but she had a poor way of coming to that realization.
If I were to recommend this book, I would only push it for those individuals that just need a light story to read. Those individuals that need to understand that life isn’t always fair and sometimes your parents only do the things they do in order to protect you from the things they know may hurt you in the long run. There is so much that can be learned from this book, but a lot of the main points were glossed over, so it’s hard to really sit here and determine what is good and what is bad.
Morgan soon finds out that her nice life, it isn’t what she had grown to believe is true. She learns that her family has been keeping a bunch of secrets when it comes to her mother’s family. She learns that there is so much going on within her house that she is having a hard time figuring out what is real, what isn’t real, who is real, who isn’t real and how she is suppose to feel about it all in the end.
Eventually she takes matters into her own hands. She tries to find out what everyone has been hiding from her.
I appreciate Morgan’s character in this book to an extent. I found her to be an overly opinionated, life isn’t fair, why does no one tell me the truth person. I didn’t like her constant whining throughout the book, I didn’t enjoy that she thought she had the right to insert herself into her parents business. I don’t think she had the right to act like her life was coming to an end, because her parents didn’t share hurtful information from her past with her. I also didn’t think she was a smart character for traveling from New Jersey to Brooklyn alone to meet people she didn’t know from Adam and was warned by bother her parents weren’t good in the past. I personally had I been her parent would have grounded her until her graduation.
There were some good points in the book. She had a nice friendship with her two best friends. She had supportive parents beside the fact that she constantly did as she pleased. She also did a great justice for some individuals that she hardly knew. It showed that she had the ability to be self less in a sense, but she had a poor way of coming to that realization.
If I were to recommend this book, I would only push it for those individuals that just need a light story to read. Those individuals that need to understand that life isn’t always fair and sometimes your parents only do the things they do in order to protect you from the things they know may hurt you in the long run. There is so much that can be learned from this book, but a lot of the main points were glossed over, so it’s hard to really sit here and determine what is good and what is bad.
sallashelves's review
4.0
Your parents are drifting apart, a relative dies, and nobody is answering your questions. What do you do? You take matters into your own hands, even if it means crossing the bridge to Brooklyn.
Full review:
https://bookstoldmeso.blogspot.com/2018/02/review-crossing-into-brooklyn.html
Full review:
https://bookstoldmeso.blogspot.com/2018/02/review-crossing-into-brooklyn.html
shelvesofsecrets's review
2.0
I was a bit apprehensive going in to this book, since it's not kind of book I would usually choose. Unfortunately, in this case, my gut feeling was right. This book just didn't work for me.
The characters, especially Morgan, didn't feel all that real and relateable. Her parents were useless and annoyed me a lot. Her grandpa was a asshole. Morgan was spoiled and naive.
Also, I felt like this book majorly overemphasized the income and class gap. It was this huge deal for her to find out her grandpa was poor and another huge deal for her to visit Brooklyn. Maybe things are different in New York/New Jersey, but where I'm from, things are not that divided.
Disliking the characters was a problem I could not overcome in this book. If you can connect with the characters better than me, you might enjoy this one.
The characters, especially Morgan, didn't feel all that real and relateable. Her parents were useless and annoyed me a lot. Her grandpa was a asshole. Morgan was spoiled and naive.
Also, I felt like this book majorly overemphasized the income and class gap. It was this huge deal for her to find out her grandpa was poor and another huge deal for her to visit Brooklyn. Maybe things are different in New York/New Jersey, but where I'm from, things are not that divided.
Disliking the characters was a problem I could not overcome in this book. If you can connect with the characters better than me, you might enjoy this one.
samantha_randolph's review
3.0
Crossing Into Brooklyn ventures into a smorgasbord of important discussions from gender issues to socio-economic prejudices to highly dysfunctional families. The author, Mary Ann McGuigan, does a remarkable job of presenting realistic situations of societal issues that demand attention in an open, inclusive manner that never overwhelms the reader. Morgan’s journey is not one all have experienced, but her story and the stories of the characters around her are certainly relatable for many and eye opening for others.
This book is riddled with unlikable characters, all of which are tremendously frustrating but also brilliantly realistic. Readers who thirst for stories that contain all the grit, messiness, angst, and hope of humanity should pick this one up immediately. I often found myself wanting to pound my fist down on the table in anger at the characters, but the story provokes the anger and even annoyance in the best possible manner to cause the reader to reflect on why those emotions surface and to encourage the reader to take a closer look at the situation.
The plot drags a little in areas, but the descriptions of Brooklyn life and the characters are usually worth the slower pace. The ending is not for those looking for a happily-ever-after, but it does contain the perfect mixture of good and bad that life often leaves people with in real life. Some areas, particularly the romance, left me feeling a little dissatisfied, but once again, I couldn’t ask for a more true to life story line.
Perfect for readers who seek very realistic young adult novels, Crossing Into Brooklyn will break hearts with human heaviness but leave just the right amount of hope to keep going. Though the story has its flaws, I am overjoyed to read this excellent example of how to use unlikable characters to their fullest and best extent.
Originally posted at YABC: http://www.yabookscentral.com/yafiction/17948-crossing-into-brooklyn
This book is riddled with unlikable characters, all of which are tremendously frustrating but also brilliantly realistic. Readers who thirst for stories that contain all the grit, messiness, angst, and hope of humanity should pick this one up immediately. I often found myself wanting to pound my fist down on the table in anger at the characters, but the story provokes the anger and even annoyance in the best possible manner to cause the reader to reflect on why those emotions surface and to encourage the reader to take a closer look at the situation.
The plot drags a little in areas, but the descriptions of Brooklyn life and the characters are usually worth the slower pace. The ending is not for those looking for a happily-ever-after, but it does contain the perfect mixture of good and bad that life often leaves people with in real life. Some areas, particularly the romance, left me feeling a little dissatisfied, but once again, I couldn’t ask for a more true to life story line.
Perfect for readers who seek very realistic young adult novels, Crossing Into Brooklyn will break hearts with human heaviness but leave just the right amount of hope to keep going. Though the story has its flaws, I am overjoyed to read this excellent example of how to use unlikable characters to their fullest and best extent.
Originally posted at YABC: http://www.yabookscentral.com/yafiction/17948-crossing-into-brooklyn
dillie12's review
2.0
The concept and idea was really interesting, but the writing seemed way too rushed and unclear.
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