Dreadful Sorry (Time Travel Mystery, #1) By Kathryn Reiss
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Okay, so I actually enjoyed this book despite the rating I gave it. The story was interesting and definitely drew me in. But the beginning of the book was slow. I also feel like the writing wasn't that good. I did like Molly and her dad. Paulette was annoying, but also adorable and waaaay more tolerable than Molly's mother. Overall, not a bad book at all. Young Adult, Childrens, Mystery I love the suspense and twistd in this book. It was hard for me to put this one down. Now this is a book that'd i like to see get turned into a movie! Young Adult, Childrens, Mystery Here is another annoyance. In pretty much all the YA mystery/thriller books I've read lately, there is a super annoying mother. And for some reason it's always the mother. The father either completely backs up the mother or else the father is the understanding parent but for some reason can't overthrow the mother's wishes.
In every one of these books, the mother is a cold, SUPER practical person who reacts violently to their child's experiences, saying that their child is either lying or imagining things, and REFUSES to even listen further, even going so far as to yelling at the child and/or punishing them.
In this book the main character is deathly afraid of water, and rather than being understanding, the mother is dismissive and cruel. When the main character almost drowns, the mother is even more heartless, saying that she needs to face her fear and tells her she can't do anything else until she learns to swim. WTF? The mothers in these books are so completely unrealistic. They are only in the story to move the plot along, to set up roadblocks for the main character from investigating whatever it is they are trying to find out. It's really really annoying, and it's gotten old. I don't know any real life mother who is like this.
This book was pretty bad. I figured out what happened halfway through the book and then basically skimmed through the rest to confirm my guess. Other than the horrible mother, there is once again the unrealistically sensitive yet hunky high school boy who helps the main character solve her mystery. Actually every character was totally stereotypical. This is a must-skip book. Young Adult, Childrens, Mystery As a young child, I was always at the library... always reading. This is one of my favorite novels from my childhood. A decade or two later, I still remember this novel in vivid detail for some odd reason (even though I can't remember anything useful from yesterday). Suffice it to say, this is a great novel for a young child/teenager, highly recommended! Young Adult, Childrens, Mystery Oh my darlin’, oh my darlin’, oh my darlin’ Clementine, you are lost and gone forever, dreadful sorry Clementine.
Seventeen-year-old Molly has had a recurring nightmare her entire life— she is walking down a long hallway to the end room, where she knows something horrible is happening. She also has an incurable fear of water, and continues to hear that old Clementine song in her head. After a near-drowning experience at a pool party, she leaves to spend the summer with her father in his new house in Maine. But the carefree summer she was hoping for disappears when she goes upstairs in the house and sees the same hallway that has been plaguing her dreams for years. Then Jared, the boy who threw her into the pool, comes to Maine demanding Molly talk to him. Now Molly is experiencing visions of a girl named Clementine who lived in her father’s house a century earlier. As the summer continues Molly stumbles across a series of connections between her and Clementine that begin to form an eerie pattern. Molly’s “visions” begin to feel more like memories— memories that appear to be reliving themselves in her life and Jared’s. Can Molly prevent the past from repeating itself?
This book moves slowly at times, so those who need a very fast-paced novel would have a difficult time getting through the slow parts. There are also many predictable aspects about the book, however, overall it is a great read and would appeal to many teenagers and adults alike. I enjoyed the unique plot of the story and liked how it introduces the possibility of both ghosts and reincarnation as an answer to Molly’s nightmares and visions. As is the case in most YA novels, many relationships are examined in “Dreadful Sorry”: Molly deals with her father and his young, pregnant wife; Molly’s relationship with Jared turns from one-sided hatred to friendship to something more; and Molly attempts to mend the multiple broken relationships from Clementine’s life. This supernatural mystery mixed with romantic intrigue demonstrates the power of second chances and was one of my favourites as a teenager. I highly recommend “Dreadful Sorry”. Those with an interest in reincarnation will especially enjoy this book.
Young Adult, Childrens, Mystery
Seventeen-year-old Molly's recurrent nightmares become waking visions after she nearly drowns at a party. Soon she's witnessing events through the eyes of a girl who lived in her father's house nearly a century before.
Dreadful Sorry (Time Travel Mystery, #1)
This is literally the 6th time I have read this book!!!!
It's a great book about a girl who starts remembering her past live and you start to see the links between both her lives. As the book pulls you in you start to connect all these pieces together and realize that there is a reason she has started to remember and it is not just for love.
This book takes place in a quaint little town on the water in main and you fall in love with it wishing you could visit and meet the other characters for real. It is a good love story not only between soul mates but between family.It shows how ties and bonds that are formed can last through a person's life. It also shows how strongly family can influence you life in good and bad ways.
Please if you pick up any of Kathryn Reiss' books please read this one. It is one of my favorites from her. I have also read her book Time windows just as many times as I have read this one and highly recommend it as well. Also Paperquake I have read at least twice now as well which is another fabulous book by her.
Young Adult, Childrens, Mystery This book kept me hooked from start to finish. I loved the mystery of it, and Molly's fears were so irrational but felt so real. Even though I was sure no harm would come to her in the water in the beginning bits, each encounter with it made me scared for her.
The mystery of things moved along at the right pace--enough to keep me wanting more, but not slow enough to bore me. My one complaint with it has to do with the label on the book itself, saying this is part of a Time Travel mystery series. I can kind of see why it falls under that series name, but it was also misleading, as I could kind of see where the book was going with Molly, but then I thought I was missing a piece because the time travel had yet to come into it. I mean, there are a few bits you can claim are time travel-esque, but it had more to do with mental things rather than time travel.
Aside from that one problem, I loved this book. It's one that has been sitting on my shelf to read for years, and I wish I had picked it up sooner. The characters were great, the mystery and reveal of it all was great, and I loved how everything tied together.
SPOILERS BELOW!!!
I just had to mention Clementine. I feel so bad for her, how she was a slave in all but name, but then I feel bad for the people she used. Hob and Abner didn't deserve the way she lied to them and manipulated them. Yet, I can't blame Clementine for her doing all she could to be free. It wasn't too hard to guess her fate, but a part of me wanted her to survive and live out her dreams. I almost want a sequel book, about the adventures she goes on--and her learning to care about others. Maybe she could have ended up finding a guy and having a kid of her own--and then she could have gone back to the village, and apologized to those she had hurt. But this is no longer a review. This is just a story that can't happen, no matter how much I would like to read it.
So, overall, I loved the book, and I think it will stick in my head for awhile. Young Adult, Childrens, Mystery This is the first book I have read in a while that I actually can say I really enjoyed.
In the beginning, I wasn’t too sold on it - but just like any book based in Maine, it pulled me in and made it difficult for me to put down.
I was even satisfied with the ending, which is rare for me. I always like to ridicule the thought process behind a good books bad ending. But this book was great. Young Adult, Childrens, Mystery This was one of the books I got when I was younger at a book fair. It's the most tattered book on my bookshelf simply because I keep going back to it whenever I have a chance. It's a simple read, I finish it within the day. But it's a good book to read whenever I want to re-visit my childhood favorites. Young Adult, Childrens, Mystery The first time I read this book, I was completely captivated by Dreadful Sorry and the story of Clementine Horn. This time around, I found the beginning of the book hard to get through. It's pretty much just Molly, the main character, having vague nightmares and whining about swimming lessons. I was thoroughly annoyed with her and her controlling mother throughout the first several chapters.
The story really picks up when Molly goes to visit her father and stepmother in Maine and discovers the home they bought is the same one from her nightmares. From there, she starts to have descriptive visions of a time a century before of the life of Clementine Horn. Her stepmother proposes this is a form of reincarnation and her father is hoping it's a ghost so they can attract more tourists to their soon to be bed and breakfast. My problem with this is they were both way too accepting of this situation. Why was no one a bit more concerned about Molly's mental condition? Molly's dad suggests in the beginning that she should see a psychologist about her fear of water but later on when she's having visions, random breakdowns, and knowledge of things she shouldn't, he suddenly thinks it's a silly idea? This just did not make sense to me.
As the story goes on, you start to see many of the things from the Clementine visions start to happen in Molly's life along with clues of why this is all happening in the first place. The whole thing is quite mysterious but I think the author did a great job of leaving no questions unanswered. This is a fascinating account of what someone will go through to right the wrongs of their past. Young Adult, Childrens, Mystery