He was dull and expected a bit too much from a person he’d only just met. From that point, we get to start learning about Stuart. He doesn’t turn out to be a psychopath and his mother and sister are charming characters, even going so far as to make her feel exceptionally welcome and reassuring Jubilee’s parents that she is safe. This made me uneasy because despite her being a relatively smart character, she still goes with him. There Jubilee talks to a boy named Stuart who says she can crash at his house until the storm lets up.
They decide to take cover in the nearby Waffle House (because why not?). So, after the train is stopped, the travellers decide that they don’t want to stay on board and venture out into the blizzard already described as the worst the town has seen in years. The romance element of this story made me feel ill. They were also generalised by names – “the Ambers”, “the Maddisons”, etc.Īpparently, these authors have all had terrible experiences with cheerleaders. What annoyed me was they were the characters mentioned the most often as sub-plot but only ever as plot devices – a device of hatred and judgement for the female characters, and of lust and general teen-boy-stereotyped-hormones for the males. When a group of cheerleaders boards the train, kind-of-uniforms and all, she latches onto “oh my God, I hate you so much” before even speaking to any of them. I believe when I was around the same age as her, and even among the people I disliked, I can not remember any teenagers who acted remotely like her or the people she observed. Jubilee is a character that is trying too hard to be relateable to a teen audience. I have been a fan of a show that does nothing but stereotype for a while so normally I can overlook it and get on with the plot – this time was difficult though as it was rammed down my throat so painfully. The amount of things wrong with this story was staggering. The people there being insanely obsessed with this collection… This part follows the narrator, Jubilee, as she is travelling by train to a relative’s house in another part of the country after her parents are arrested on Christmas Eve – when a fight breaks out at a store where these peculiar Christmas dioramas are being sold. It almost set a president for what the rest of the novel was going to be like. But I wasn’t prepared for the utter train-wreck this story turned out to be collectively.Īnd ‘train-wreck’ is a very apt description because the first story – The Jubilee Express written by Maureen Johnson – happens to have a train getting caught in a blizzard and almost derailing. I figured that it would be cheesy, I was prepared for that. Never before had I read anything by Maureen Johnson or Lauren Myracle but I have read plenty of John Green books. I bought this book around Christmas time hoping to have something sweet and festive to read over the holidays.
This is honestly the worst book I have ever read. Though each story follows a different protagonist and their friends, they all take place in the same town, at the same time and merge towards the end.
First published back in 2008, Let It Snow is a festive collaboration featuring three stories by Maureen Johnson, John Green and Lauren Myracle.
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