Main Character: Ginny
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Series: Little Blue Envelope, Book 1
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Inside little blue envelope 1 are $1,000 and instructions to buy a plane ticket.In envelope 2 are directions to a specific London flat.
The note in envelope 3 tells Ginny: Find a starving artist.
Because of envelope 4, Ginny and a playwright/thief/ bloke–about–town called Keith go to Scotland together, with somewhat disastrous–though utterly romantic–results. But will she ever see him again?
Everything about Ginny will change this summer, and it’s all because of the 13 little blue envelopes.
It boggles my mind to think that someone would send a teenager on an adventure to another country. I know that none of my Aunts would have done it but that’s just my inner hater peeking out because I would have loved to have had someone send me to Europe when I was 17 so that I could follow the little blue envelope road to finding out what happened to my Aunt.
So Ginny’s Aunt sends her on this once in a lifetime journey and of course Ginny goes and she follows the instructions in all of those little blue envelopes in hopes of getting to know her Aunt all over again since her Aunt took off for Europe without looking back and without keeping in touch.
Every time I read this book is annoys me so much that the Aunt just took off the way she did without a word to those who cared about her. Without so much as a word or thought to her family. I hated the way that Ginny found out that her Aunt died, I hated the way that she found out that her Aunt was married to the guy who housed her while she was in Europe and I hate the way that she sent Ginny on an adventure all over the place so that she could what? Get some perspective on the Aunt? Why couldn’t she have done that while she was alive? I mean, there had to have been a funeral but she robbed her family of going to it because none of them knew where she was or what had happened.
Ugh, while that part of the story always gets me all fired up, I still enjoyed the book. I enjoyed the people that Ginny met and I enjoyed when she chased Keith’s drunk friend down the street and the piece of crap play that he was in. Overall, it was a good book but it wasn’t the great book that I was expecting. I was expecting more of a connection with Ginny and I didn’t get that. When I finished the book, I felt like I didn’t really know much about Ginny and that was kind of a bummer.
I am, however interested in reading the next book that’s coming out soon. I’ll, of course, review it here on the blog just as soon as I finish it.
..and that’s your scoop!
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I get what you mean, I really liked the book over all because it was funny and cute-ish.
But it’s not the kind of book that can withstand some thought about it. What the Aunt did was tremendously selfish, the kind of thing that in RL would totally make me cut someone from my life if they had just taken off like that. And it was also kind of irresponsible of her – to send Ginny all over the place following her clues.
And I just always felt she as so unfair to the guy she married.
The thing that pisses me off though, it’s the Last Little Blue Envelope.
I know there is going to be a sequel now, but when the book was first published, I didn’t. And I felt so CHEATED out of the closure that last envelope was supposed to bring.
And I really wanted to know more about everyone, but you really don’t.
*sigh* I still hope the sequel is better
I read this one a loooong time ago but I really loved it. Of course I had to make allowances for sending a teen to another country but I LOVED the travel and all that. It’s been so long I can’t really comment on the Aunt’s actions because, well I don’t remember. I just know I really enjoyed this one.
Bummer it didn’t completely work for you. I’m looking forward to the next book. I may have to re-read this one b/c it’s been so long!
@Alex: I totally know what you mean. It never fails to annoy the snot out of me that the Aunt was that selfish to both her family, to Ginny and to the husband. I just wanted to smack some sense into her. Gah.
@Mollie: I wanted to like this one so much more than I did but it’s all good. I didn’t hate it and I still want to read the next book.
I have wanted to read this book for the longest time! Thanks to your reminder I have just rerequested it from the library.