Gimme a call, Sarah Mlynowski, ed . Alfaguara, 2011
Devi feel you have wasted the last years of his life in the company of Bryan, her boyfriend. Well, her ex-boyfriend. And because of this relationship lost all his friends, he neglected his studies and now will go to a lousy school, fought with his older sister and now feels he has nothing. Even mobile. Because of a stupid mistake has gone to the source of the mall. Dead. No. A call. You can call a number. Which? Yours. Devi can only be called herself three years younger when he had not yet begun hanging out with Bryan, when he still had friends, when the whole future was ahead. It take advantage of this second chance to try to make a radical change in your life? Only need to convince herself ... Behind this
argument is impossible to hide a nice high school comedy that has brought me a few hours of reading and a little more sympathetic (and no less). The truth is that the novel is an excuse for the worst. I've always been very reluctant to stories of boy who become girl wakes up, exchange of bodies (between lovers who fight, parents who fight, daughter and mother fight, dog and owner who are fighting, etc.) talk to your family killed by a radio or yourself through your mobile phone, as in this case. And because there is an explanation of something clever to support this situation is usually explained by something magical, that's it. And, really, the explanation Wizard spare me almost everywhere ... Perhaps the only exception to this is the saga Powerful, but of course, is that the series is wonderful Sergio Klein pinch where it pinched. Saved
this obstacle (which is minimal, but I personally affect), Gimme a call very nice, very nice and very funny. The future Devi Devi try past that do not make their own mistakes (or what she believes to be errors) causing continuous changes in the stream of time which will affect the present Devi. Suddenly be seen in another house, with friends, with different partners of the institute, with options to enter new universities, no boyfriend, to groom, with different hairstyles and always without Bryan, the great white menace. This will lead to funny situations and a conflict between two Devis with desires and needs. And although the future Devi everything done with good intentions, not all decisions are correct. Devis Both have much to learn.
Gimme a call made me think about what college a professor told us while we made a kind of something I do not remember: whatever you do, you'll be wrong. And I think that is the central theme of this novella, the inability to match and the need to err on the media themselves to learn. We've all dreamed of talking to our I tell the past and do not do this, do not do that thinking that our future would be better. Not necessarily. Correcting an error opened the door to many mistakes. And some of those errors are needed to become who we are. All explained in a tone lighthearted and fun.
The characters are well drawn, are nice and close. I prefer the young Devi and one of her friends (I can not remember the name, always wearing black) and it is true that sometimes Devi of the future can get irritating, but it is the anxiety of the character by attempting to change your mind that is just an excuse for not acknowledging that huge failed the break with Bryan. Because the other topic the novel is love. And more specifically is a subtle critique of the idea that love is exclusivity, are two and only and only with your loved one is happy. Paraphrasing, that is not love, is selfishness. Love is giving and receiving, but also sharing. And make and create and be free to be with someone.
And this view is great teenage love in a time when the young adult novel seems to be dominated by impossible love, lovers who want and need only to themselves, for the continued identification of love with words such as pain, sacrifice and suffering, forgetting that love is above all joy, fun, flirting and friends and family and hobbies and movies and bad jokes.
Gimme a call is a predictable novel that promises to stay in memory for many days, yet is fun, fresh, fast, unpretentious and very friendly.
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