Amandine

This book is an amazing story about the dark side of human nature that we typically keep hidden from that world. All of us have a little Amandine and a little delia in us somewhere its alittle like the two oppisite sides of the spectrum. You have Amandine, the little devil on your sholder and then you have Delia who is more like the angel only she is being pulled every which way and must learn to be stronger. This is a great... Read Full Review

*Amandine* is a well-crafted look at adolescent female friendship between two outcasts, one needy (Delia), the other manipulative (Amandine). For a while the friendship works: the flamboyant, unconventional, artistic Amandine enthralling the school newcomer, Delia. Then, slowly at first, complications arise that test the friendship, complications brought about by Amandine's unpredictable, attention-seeking behavior, her mysterious... Read Full Review

After reading the other reviews, I have to wonder if Iread the same book. People are calling this simplisticand contrived, unoriginal and boring. Someone else(whose emotional state I'm worried about) says lonely, awkward Delia is "the nut case" and claims Amandine,who is pure sociopath all the way, "doesn't do anythingwrong." Sorry, but I think intentional lies used as "punishment", damaging libel and playing two people... Read Full Review

Amandine is a very interesting book. You will really anjoy this book if you like reading about how someone's friendship works out. This book is very easy to get into. You can start reading and read for hours. I can relate to the friendship in this book. Amandine and Delia are two totaly diffrent people who get along really well.Most guys will probably consider this a "girly book" because the main charcters are females. Girl... Read Full Review

Pure EntertainmentI read this book in a couple of hours, it moves fast, I really liked it. The writing is tense and magnetic. I'm kind of doubtful the gist of it meant to concentrate as a "friendship genre" book --whatever that means-- since Amandine is the center of her story, and it's really how she manipulates and seduces the friend's dad. But it's not about a real girl-girl friendship at all, or about the other girl, Delia's... Read Full Review