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The Tulip Touch by: Anne Fine

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Rating: - I think it wasn't that good because it changes suddenly

The Tulip Touch was a strange book, it was a different style of book than I had read before. It made you feel at the start anything could happen. Especially as it says in the blurb 'Nathalie knows Tulip won't stop until she has won the most dangerous game of all'. The book made me sometimes feel I didn't know what was going on as it would go from one thing to another which I found very confusing - this is one of the main reasons that I did not enjoy The Tulip Touch. The reason I carried on reading The Tulip Touch was because it kept you guessing and it made you want to know what happened next. When I first looked at the cover of The Tulip Touch I thought that it was going to be a very strange book, firstly because of the title and secondly because of the eye it has on it. Although I did not enjoy this book I think that if you like reading books about mysteries this would be a good book to read whether you're a girl or boy. After reading The Tulip Touch I would like to read some of Anne Fine's other books, such as 'Flower Babies' and 'Step by Wicked Step'.

Rating: - The Tulip Touch is about a family who fix hotels.

The Tulip Touch is about a family of 4 who go around fixing up hotels but at this one piticular hotel called the "place" they meet a little girl called Tulip and from that moment on natalie became tulips little toy.Tulip use's Natalie to do all the dirty work and Tulip is all ways trying to get the attention.There are moments when Natalie can break away from the spell that Tulip cast.Julis calls Tulip a witch and he came up with a couple resons why.A little later on in the book Natalies finaly realises that Julis is right because of the dancing around the fire and also when she finally broke a way from Tulips spell at night she see fire and as like a bit of Tulip spell still lit in darkness of Natalie body. The book isn't one of the best books i read.

Rating: - it was okay in parts

This book the tulip touch was difficult to understand at first but I got used to it in the end.There was to much descriptive language in it.I would recomend this book to 12-15

Rating: - A well written book about child abuse

This is a very sad and difficult book to read because it deals with an unpleasant situation. It is about a little girl called Tulip who suffers mental and physical cruelty at home which no-one can stop happening. Her continued bad behaviour is a cry for help which is not answered and over several years she became mentally ill.

The story is written through the eyes of her best friend Natalie.It starts with Natalie's family moving in to a new area and running a hotel. Natalie is lonely and sees Tulip with a kitten in a field. Tulip is hesitant to speak but decides to be friends with Natalie. No-one questioned why, except police officer Stallworthy who later wondered what Tulip saw in Natalie. Everyone else shuns Tulip who rarely attended school an was always difficult and unpleasant. Natalie's mum states 'She's bright enough to see tha if people like her go around exactly what they want, everyone's miserable.'

The whole book becomes more uncomfortable and sinister. Natalie is banned from visiting Tulip's house. she visits once but is very frightened by what she sees and the odd behaviour of Tulip's parents especially her father who is a vindictive bully.

Natalie's father summed her up when he said "to really know right from wrong you need a certain emotional sympathy, and you learn that from being treated properly yourself." "If you've been brought up as if your feelings don't matter, you probably assume other people's don't matter much either."

Tulip spends as much time as possible with Natalie to escape her home, but the games they play are always weird such as Havoc, Road of Bones or Stinking Mackerel. Natalie's little brother Julius was often the but of these games and he got very scared and frightened by them. Gradually the games became wilder and more frightening. First Tulip favoured dustbin fires but slowly she switched to annoying neighbours, menacing bereaved parents, fellow pupils, terrorizing pets and leaving dead animals in cages.

No-one ever seemed to stop her or help her situation, so the darker side inside Tulip surfaced. As Natalie said "In her(Tulip's) eyes it was the world that was wrong. If the world had only been right, if things had only fallen out the way they should then she would never have to lie, or steal or be spiteful."

Natalie realises that Tulip is out of control and becomes so frightened she backs away and concentrates on her schoolwork. This disturbs Tulip who cannot handle the rejection and ends up burning down the hotel in an act of revenge. The book leaves a sense of sadness and guilt that no-one had really tried to reach out and help Tulip.Natalie sums it up "Each horrible thing that happens makes a difference and there have been too many of those in Tulip's life."

I did not enjoy this book because it made feel uncomfortable. It is well written because youm never know what is happening in Tulip's life which adds to the suspense. Don't read this book before bed time because you will never sleep!!!!!

Rating: - A MUST READ by katie babich 12

Its brilliant and mesmerizing. When you start reading the book you'll just get sucked in and you wont be able to put it down. I'm glad that this book is on the reading list at our school because kids between 12-15 should read it. I don't think that you could find a child like tulip in the world because a lot of perants care too much about thier children these days. This book is about a girl, Natalie, who becomes friends with tulip because she feel sorry for her, as they become beter friends tulip starts playing more dangerous and dareing games....christmas.

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