Mathilda Savitch (Audiobook)

from Twink

Sometimes when you see a cover, you come away with an idea that turns out to be completely different from what's hidden inside. Looking at the cover of Mathilda Savitch and scanning the cover blurb containing the word "hilarious", I was expecting a somewhat 'light' novel. Mathilda Savitch is told...

from keely_chace

This is the story of Mathilda, a teen girl coming to terms with the death of her older sister. Mathilda narrates her story, and from page to page, it's tricky figuring out just where the truth ends and imagination/self-deception has kicked in. Beautifully written book. Engaging throughout, with l...

from metermaid1

This book had me from the very first line and it did not let me go until the very end. Mathilda is such an engaging character and the "voice" of her narration throughout the book is mesmerizing. I have already recommended this book to a few people and I will continue to do so. It was funny and he...

from Hagelstein

Mathilda Savitch, the narrator and the book, grabs you from the beginning. Mathilda's beautiful and willful older sister, Helene, has been dead for a year. Pushed in front of a train, Mathilda believes, at sixteen. Highly observant and intelligent, Mathilda is witness and victim to her parent's, ...

from citygirl

Why? I was grabbed by cover silhouette of a little girl who is clearly up to no good and the first sentences: I want to be awful. I want to do awful things and why not? Dull is dull is my life. and so it goes. Mathilda is twelve, I think and her older sister has been murdered and she's trying to ...