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A Million to One

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Croatian Violet, who wishes to reunite with her younger brother at home, has a natural talent for acting and gathering information. When I think about a heist, I think about the early montage of finding out who the cast is and what their special talents are. I'm going to go into denial now and creating an alternative happy all round ending in my mind thanks. While there are a seemingly endless number of resources concerning the SMS Titanic, and there is most definitely a small +/- concerning any percentages used, the vast majority of my information came from www. Told by the four voices as time is ticked away in the chapter headings, we see the problems and the weaknesses that each girl brings to the team, as well as their amazing strengths.

There was supposed to be a romance somewhere hidden in there, but it ended up being my problem with Hani and Ishu, amplified: two characters just got thrown together with zero prior chemistry, insinuation, or anything that would suggest love. In her utterly understandable attempt to bypass an awful trope while maintaining some realism, Jaigirdar, unfortunately, forfeits a genuinely uplifting and satisfying ending. Adiba Jaigirdar, author of one of Time's Best YA books of all time, gives Titanic an Ocean’s 8 makeover in this nail-biting heist set onboard the infamous ship. I need you all to know that I wanted to love this book: a BIPOC, sapphic, heist novel based on the tragedy of the Titanic?

She is the winner of the YA book prize 2022, the KPMG Children’s Books Ireland Awards 2021, and was a finalist for the 2022 Lambda Literary awards. I moved to the Sooner State when I was seventeen and met my soul mate and best friend not long after.

A heart-pounding, romantic adventure from the award-winning author of Hani and Ishu’s Fake Guide to Dating. It’s all aided by the chapter subheadings being a countdown to the ship’s sinking; it’s a literal ticking time bomb.

We got a bit of a tragic backstory for Hinnah, at least, but a tragic backstory with nothing else to go off of does not a well-developed character make. But here’s where I’ll correct myself slightly, because A Million to One is no more a “Titanic book” than Die Hard is a “Christmas movie”. New players, several who are in danger and one who’s a monster, join the series’ original characters.

Indeed, as the countdown ticks away, each stroke of the hand bringing us, and them, closer and closer to tragedy, cumulative storytelling structures tells you in your heart of hearts that not all four of these girls will see the sun rise on April 15, 1912. Being the older sibling, and the only family either one has left, she feels responsible for his well-being and would certainly do all she could to facilitate a happy reunion. Kapila cultivates a strong sense of pace that builds from recruitment of the team through the moment the group realizes their caper has become a fight for survival. Even though this book caused me emotional damage and reminded me of why I actually do like books that wrap everything up in a nice happy bow, I enjoyed it so much. When not writing, she is probably ranting about the ills of colonialism, playing video games, or expanding her overflowing lipstick collection.

Violet is an immigrant who’s stealing and working to support her younger brother who’s still in Croatia. Four young women board the Titanic to steal a rare, gem-studded copy of the Rubaiyat, the classic book of Persian poetry. I spent all this time following these four characters and I hardly batted an eye when two of them died. Every page of Adiba Jaigirdar's A Million to One glitters like the Titanic itself, with all the exquisite tension of a first kiss--or an impossible heist.

The narrator done a pretty great job but it would have been interesting to see how a full cast would have brought this story to life. It is particularly rewarding and refreshing to see the girls, through multiple-POV narration, actively work through those changes, and work to understand one another and their differences. Okay, okay, I'm a bit old-fashioned and even enjoy the gender roles that are present in this culture. A catastrophe like the Titanic is fertile ground for moments of unrequited heroics, acts of sublime courage and grace as many on board were knowingly facing their final moments on this earth. By the point the ship started sinking, I was so disinterested in the book that none of the emotional beats hit me, which is wild.As the book progresses, we see the stresses and strains that old grudges, romances, and other actions create. Oh, and good luck not trying to head canon one or two of these women into the background of the film as Jack and Rose are doing their thing. Her ride-or-die on this heist, and in life, is Violet, a Croatian actress who could charm the pants off just about anyone she meets. Two of Adiba’s four leads (Emilie/Hinnah) have dark skin and I can’t help but think Emilie’s Haitian roots are homage to the ships only passenger of African descent, Joseph Philippe Lemercier Larochce. This plot point left such a bad taste in my mouth, I genuinely don't know what Jaigirdar hoped to accomplish with this.

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