Resumo de Inexcusable

This is a wonderfully fast-moving story about a wounded "angel" and her exploits with a set of twins intent on keeping her secret and exploring their world together. Are there angels or not?And the one thing he knows about himself is that he is a good guy. WhatGigi says he is seems impossible to Keir....It is something inexcusable ? theworst thing he can imagine, the very opposite of everything he wants to be.As Keir recalls the events leading up to his fateful night with Gigi, herealizes that the way things look are definitely not the way they really are ?and that it may be all too easy for a good guy to do something terribly wrong.As the novel opens, something horrible has happened: "The way itlooks is not the way it is. It is inexcusable"). Later in the novel, whenhe learns that his older sisters (he "talks about ... We love Gregorin our family, in fact a new book causes us to drop everything else-literally. Readingit aloud becomes our sole purpose in life. With this book I Read it at thebreakfast table, as soon as we scurried home from work, as evening entertainment,and then before bedtime. We were so gripped by Gregor and his desperate need tosave his mother and his beloved bat from the plague that infested theunderworld that we had to keep reading. It was, as they say,-a matter of lifeand death. When I read it out loud I can experiment with my Reading style,Boots as the toddler always adds a bit of humor, and her beloved cockroach,Temp, has such a neat way of speaking. Which, oddly enough, has crossed overinto my everyday language. In this adventure the group heads to the jungle, meeting up with new familymembers that have only been mentioned in previous books. The fact that Gregor'smom was even let into the Underland, well that put quite a different spin oneverything--eliciting a gasp of surprise as we plunged on ahead. This book keptup the momentum of the previous two, and the new setting also added somethingdifferent and fresh. Of course Gregor manages to figure everything out and savethe day, and the way it all ended1/4 Well, I can't wait for another undergroundadventure. Let's hope Suzanne Collins hears my plea. If you haven't read any ofthese books, you're in for a real treat. The well-drawn characters, suspensefulplot, underground imagery--these books have it all!With his portrait of Keir, Lynchmakes it nearly impossible for readers to see the world in black-and-whiteterms. Keir is a good example of an unreliable narrator, whose version ofreality and sense of himself, the reader eventually comes to realize, aredangerously off base. So do his widowed father, his older sisters, and hisclassmates. And when he date rapes the girl he thinks he loves, at first heconvinces himself that "the way it looks is not the way it is." Keir'sfirst-person narrative chillingly exposes the rationalization process that thetroubled teen goes through to persuade himself and those around him of hisinnocence. We were so gripped by Gregor and his desperate need to save hismother and his beloved bat from the plague that infested the underworld that wehad to keep reading. This book kept up the momentum of the previous two, andthe new setting also added something different and fresh. Of course Gregormanages to figure everything out and save the day, and the way it all ended1/4Well, I can't wait for another underground adventure.

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