3 books to cure a nasty case of writer's block

by Jandy Nelson  

Overview: Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah’s story to tell. The later years are Jude’s. What the twins don’t realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world. This radiant novel from the acclaimed, award-winning author will leave you breathless and teary and laughing—often all at once.

The Juice: Now, the book might not strike you as the masterpiece it is from just the synopsis but personal experience, a friend suggested me to read it and I was all down the moment I finished the first chapter. Nelson’s writing style is sure to sweep the floor from right under your feet, it’s as if you’re in a capsule of intricate but intriguing imagery and artistic metaphor overload.

When you first step into this book, the world is built around you by Noah and I tell you, his brain weaves magical realism. He’s someone who is driven by his passion for art and conveying his feelings through that art. You also realize that Noah and Jude, are eerily twin-close, their connection is touching. But the next chapter you step into Jude’s part of the story, which takes place 3 years later, mind you, and you discover that a number of things have driven them apart, they’re gone from reading each other’s minds to barely speaking. Talk about taking a one-eighty!

To find out what happened, you’ve got to give a read, I promise it won’t disappoint!

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Bonus: There are metaphors everywhere! By everywhere, I mean every single where! so if you’re a metaphor lover, this book got you covered.

 

by E Lockhart  

Overview: A beautiful and distinguished family. A private island. A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy. A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive. A revolution. An accident. A secret. Lies upon lies. True love. The truth. We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from New York Times bestselling author, National Book Award finalist, and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Read it. And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

 

The Juice: From the overview, this story might seem like a mystery remake of the gossip girl series which it kind of considering all the lavishness depicted in the story but there’s more to it than meets the eye. It’s without a doubt, one of the most powerful and well-crafted books I’ve ever read.

It talks about friendship, family, power struggle, secrets in an insanely confusion way which is maddening and borderline makes you chuck the book out of your window but that’s the fun part, you wait for all the pieces to fall together and then kaboom and on top of that, the writing style is breathtakingly phe-no-mi-nal. It has you believing the story as you read it but there’s a twist, nothing is as it seems. The last line in the synopsis is there for a reason because the ending had me shooketh, but I can’t spoil it for you but I repeat the ending will have you shaking for your life.

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Bonus: It has maps and family tree for added visual effects and understanding, how great it that?