Delilah is a bit of a loner who prefers spending her time in the school library with her head in a book—one book in particular. Between the Lines may be a fairy tale, but it feels real. Prince Oliver is brave, adventurous, and loving. He really speaks to Delilah.
And then one day Oliver actually speaks to her. Turns out, Oliver is more than a one-dimensional storybook prince. He’s a restless teen who feels trapped by his literary existence and hates that his entire life is predetermined. He’s sure there’s more for him out there in the real world, and Delilah might just be his key to freedom.
This book peaked my interest after the companion book (Off the Page) was recently released. I had never heard of either but once the new installment starting popping up on shelves everywhere I had to know what I was missing.
Between the Lines, in my opinion, is a parody of a book. It actually makes fun of readers keeping their heads poked in between the pages (which then made me feel self-conscious) but in an endearing way. I will say I hated the colored text. It was helpful in reminding me who was narrating but other than that it made my eyes hurt (who picks lime green and lilac as text colors?!!?) And the little pictures on the side were cheesy. I can imagine a girl blowing a kiss by myself thank you. It distracted me from actually reading and that was just annoying.
The book as a whole was cute. Even if the whole idea of pulling things out of the pages was a little abstract it was still different from what I'm used to reading. That being said I don't think I would re-read this again...ever. It was too heavily based on the fairy tale that we don't get to read! I almost wish the whole fairy tale was a prequel or excerpt at the end of the actual book. There would be a chapter of fairy tale, one of Oliver (where he explains all about what's going to happen in the fairy tale), and one of Delilah (where she foreshadows what's going to happen in the fairy tale). Why should I bother reading the chunks of fake book when you've already told me what was going to happen and I don't get to read the whole thing anyway?
Other than that, no major complaints...except I can never seem to read more than 30 pages at a time without putting the book down and doing something else. I don't know what it is but it just won't hold my attention. And it doesn't help that Delilah seems to act a lot younger than she supposedly is: a high school freshman. I don't know how old Samantha van Leer was when she helped co-write this book but if it was 12 that would explain so much.
I can comfortably give this book 3 stars; it wasn't great but it wasn't terrible either. This book is written for 13-year-old girls, so if that's you then, GREAT!, give this book a try. If not, then maybe pass on this one.
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