When you keep hearing “it all clicks together perfectly after X pages,” you come to expect something crazy to happen or jaw-dropping. I won’t lie that the hype was such an insane factor in my enjoyment of this book. I finally understood what was happening, but was completely disappointed by the lack of “AHA!” moment. It’s not like it was a bad book, I just was never surprised or shocked or impressed. I read page after page until I was more than three-quarters through the book and still felt SO disconnected. At this point, I was damn determined to make sure I wasn’t just an idiot. Things were KIND OF getting pulled together MAYBE… but I started to get frustrated.Įveryone insisted that I keep reading, so I did. Still interested for sure, but very unsure of what was going on.Īaaand another told me 150 pages was when she figured this shit out. Intrigued, but confused.Īnother blogger told me page 125 was when it clicked for her. 80 pages came and went… and I was still incredibly confused. I read one review that said 80 pages was the magic spot where pieces came together. Every single review said that the first X number of pages would be hard to read or understand, but pushing through was worth it in the end. I was kind of nervous but knew this was the motivation I would need to finally read it. I was mentally prepared for the confusing beginning. I asked Chris to pick my next book off of a certain shelf and he pulled this one off. But if Taylor can piece together the clues Hannah left behind, the truth she uncovers might not just settle her past, but also change her future. To make matters worse, Hannah, the one adult Taylor trusts, has disappeared. This year, though, the Cadets are led by Jonah Griggs, and Taylor can't avoid his intense gaze for long. Now seventeen, Taylor's the reluctant leader of her school's underground community, whose annual territory war with the Townies and visiting Cadets has just begun. At fourteen, she ran away from boarding school, only to be tracked down and brought back by a mysterious stranger.
“The director said to me, ‘I’m spending a minimum of three hours just to change nail colors and, for us, time is money.In this lyrical, absorbing, award-winning novel, nothing is as it seems, and every clue leads to more questions.Īt age eleven, Taylor Markham was abandoned by her mother. During the day, nail polish had to be changed three to four times,” he continues.
If the dress changed to purple, the color had to be changed. “Every time a starlet was wearing a red dress, he had to put red nail polish on her.
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“In the movie industry at that time, they matched nail colors to dresses,” Pink recently recounts. One film director did, indeed, have a nail dilemma. Concerned about a lack of foot traffic and in search of sales, Pink started calling everyone he could think of within a 25-mile or so radius-Hollywood studios, nail technicians and hair salons were at the top of his list-to ask them how he could satisfy their beauty needs. and the previous year had created a nail brand called Orly. The United States celebrated its 200th anniversary Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak formed the Apple Computer Company and Nadia Comaneci flipped her way to three gold medals at the Summer Olympics in Montreal.īeauty history was also made that year by Jeff Pink, who owned a small beauty supply store in Tarzana, Calif.
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