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Original Title:	The Shell House
ISBN:	0385750110 (ISBN13: 9780385750110)
Edition Language:	English

The Shell House

Linda Newbery

Hardcover | Pages: 352 pages

Rating: 3.68 | 498 Users | 34 Reviews

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Title	:	The Shell House
Author	:	Linda Newbery
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 352 pages
Published	:	August 13th 2002 by David Fickling Books (first published July 1st 2002)
Categories	:	Young Adult. Historical. Historical Fiction. Fiction. LGBT. GLBT. Queer. Romance

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This book's writing style is very florid and sentimental. I knew from the summary that it probably would be. I thought by biggest complaint would be the writing style, but to my disappointment, sentimentality is the least of what made me want to throw this book at a wall. Most of the dialogue during the present times felt ridiculously staged, Edmund got to the point where he was so scornful he became a flat and unrelatable character, and the ENDING. This is the angriest I've been at the ending to a book since Mockingjay.


***SPOILERS***


The book opens with Greg the high school photographer stumbling upon a pretty, decaying mansion. Graveney Hall. (Can you tell how happy this place is? I bet the family was kind and loving and never judged anything ever.) This symbolic naming of things for their rolls in the story continues with Faith, the girl Greg meets by chance there. She's a devout Christian (what? Really????) and becomes the irritating, stereotypically self-righteous religion character that makes Greg question his atheism. She's also the token Independent Woman. (If I'm bitchy and snotty enough to you in the beginning, everyone will believe I'm my own person and root for us to be together when I eventually kiss you!) His relationship with Faith becomes the main plot line, despite what the summary says.

Greg and James talk a little in the beginning, have a little spat, and practically nothing else happens between them for the rest of the book. Yep. Oh, Greg considers the IDEA of James a lot, often comparing him to another girl he meets (a flat character that purely exists so that he can feel guilty about sex). But Greg is much happier talking to Faith about Edmund and religion than talking to James. I actually like James, even though he's as mild as most of the other characters. Too bad Faith is more important.

Now, Edmund. The World War I plot is more interesting, mainly because Edmund is a bastard instead of a lukewarm character like Greg. Alex's death is well-done. Even though I saw it coming from a mile away, it still felt awful and sad. Even after Alex's death, when Edmund is crazy and way too ridiculously mean to his pretty neighbor, (I mean really. No one would be THAT awful) I still found it more interesting than Greg's life. At least Edmund is a horrible person.

Now you would think, with all of this religious lead-up, there would be some sort of religious closure at the end. I did, anyway. Instead we get this cross crap with Faith. Greg feels guilty because he believes he made her lose her faith. I get it. That part is interesting. He takes her cross for safe-keeping to make sure she doesn't throw it away.

Then we get a dream illustrating how Greg is struggling to choose between sex or love with the random girl and James, and Greg goes to swim with James but doesn't talk to him. Heaven forbid the two actually hint at something concrete between them. You can easily read this scene as James accepting that Greg is only a friend and nothing more, which would be fine if we weren't given glaring evidence in the form of the dream that Greg does NOT feel that way. Unless he chose sex over love. I don't know. Greg doesn't say. Or tell James. For one of the main couples of the book, these two sure suck at communication.

And then Greg is threatening to throw the cross into the water, trying to get Faith to stop him. The real climax--his relationship with Faith. Pun intended. And we get this ambiguous-ass sentence that could either be him throwing it in the lake or him stopping it from falling in the lake.

And it ENDS. With NO closure between him and James, NO closure between him and Faith, but hey, at least we finally know who burned down the freaking MANSION because I totally didn't know it was Edmund fifty pages in!!!

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Good premise for a novel - modern teenagers coming of age juxtaposed against their First World War contemporaries. The novel mainly discusses themes of homosexuality and Christianity and, while it is to be applauded for doing so openly and seemingly without judgement, I though that this was also its weakest point because Newbury does go on, and on, and on. I found the discussions that her protagonists have to be generic with no real sense of genuine teenage speech. Mostly however, I dislike the

This book started off so well, which was why I was generous and gave it three stars, but it seemed to get very strange towards the end.I loved the character Faith, who was so original, but then by the end of the book she was trusting all normal and boring! She had the belief that many others her age didn't have, and she had such interesting opinions, but at the end it all changes and I really hated that.Then Greg. At the beginning of the book I thought that he and Faith would end up being

I picked it up right after Set in Stone , it was not as good as Set in Stone in my personal opinion but still a nice read. It was about teenagers, confusions in their lives. And It was beautifully done. I wish more had been done about Greg and his friend (forgo his name). I was a little disappointed to see only a scene in his dream.

An interesting book of love, war and friendship but I felt it was rather unfinished. I hate it when books are left open for the reader to make up their own minds about what could have happened. I felt that there were still some mysteries of Graveley Hall unresolved and I wanted some resolution between Greg and Dean, (view spoiler)[maybe a thank you for the first aid(!)? (hide spoiler)](view spoiler)[Did they get together in the end? He helped his friend get her faith back but what about him, did

Written for teenaged readers many adolescent issues are covered; sexuality, religious belief, the effects of war, bullying and commitment all concern Greg as he develops friendship and seeks the truth behind Graveney Hall.

I enjoyed this book much more than my first Newberry book. The Shell House does a great job of weaving two stories together. Similarities run between the two, but it doesn't feel like the same story being retold by two different characters. There is depth to the young adults that is believable in today's age. There is credibility to the young lovers in the past... A good read.

I couldn't get myself to finish this book. I kept trying and trying in hopes that the novel would get better--especially with so many high reviews on Goodreads. The only plot line I found somewhat interesting was Edmund's storyline. Unfortunately, it was a minor storyline because it mostly focused on Greg and Faith.I didn't like Newberry's writing style, which is probably one of the main reasons I put the book down. I couldn't connect with it--at times I thought the prose was too sentimental and