I tend to knock out of film or literary references to locate the ambience of a product that I comment, and yes gentle reader, you do not cut it this time.
Take a pod SPIRITS REBELS (movie with Michelle Pfeiffer), a pinch of WEST SIDE STORY stirred all, you get this first part.
Is a beautiful love story between a member of a gang and a young Latin American wasp after the good society. It is neither silly nor syrupy, it's sexy without being explicit, it is at times funny thanks to punchy dialogues, moving and super easy to read.
We alternate chapters narrated respectively by Brittany and Alejandro, allowing a more obvious empathy with the hero. They are surrounded by many people, who without being highly developed, remain no less essential to create a semblance of society and a credible backdrop.
Well the first page of the first chapter narrated by Barbie / Brittany almost cool to me, so it was a condencé silliness and superficalité, but already shone through the crack lines of this perfect life. I thought I find myself with a poor layer character of Elena Vampire Diary which had discouraged me to the point of dropping this series. Fortunately, this impression faded quickly upon discovery of the family environment heroin.
Clearly aimed at teenagers and young adults, without this being pejorative, yet I was caught by this lovely story, and will go and attack the second volume.
However, this kind late Bizarre Harry Potter 20 years later, that was not necessary and does not add much, otherwise the risk of blocking the imagination of the reader.
