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Hello, Privet! #1: Hello/Привет, by Maria Malonzo
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This bildungsroman which is part comedy of manners, part culture clash romcom, follows Sophie Rosenbaum, a 21-year old former child prodigy and now Harvard dropout, who wants to prove to her family that she's "okay." Her plan: become independent from her well-meaning but smothering family by interning at Bergstrom & Bergstrom PR, which coincidentally ran her stepfather's gubernatorial campaign. What she didn't plan on is the plot twist who walks into her life (or rather, her psychotherapist brother's waiting room) in the person of Anton Akhmerov, more popularly known as The Russian Bad Boy of Tennis. Anton Akhmerov, five-time Grand Slam tennis champion (except for Wimbledon, which continues to elude him), seems to have everything — money, fame, and a supermodel girlfriend — except his ranking has fallen to 200 after a shoulder injury. The only thing he cares about is becoming number one again, but getting back on top seems not only difficult, but impossible, what with his temper and racket breaking problem. His manager tries everything to help him get his head on straight: first there's psychotherapy, and then there's his new PR assistant Sophie, who thinks he's nothing more than a self-conceited jock. They might be from different worlds, but as their paths cross, they find their lives inevitably changing in new and unexpected ways. Book 1 of a new adult culture clash romantic comedy series written in a multi-POV he-said she-said style with the main protagonists and minor characters alternately telling their side of the story.
Hello, Privet! #1: Hello/Привет, by Maria Malonzo - Amazon Sales Rank: #569368 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-06-04
- Released on: 2015-06-04
- Format: Kindle eBook
Hello, Privet! #1: Hello/Привет, by Maria Malonzo About the Author Maria Malonzo is a creative director on weekdays and a novelist on weekends. She is a snail mail enthusiast and postcrosser.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Unique New Adult novel By Lyss C *I was kindly gifted a copy of “Hello, Privet!” to read in exchange for an honest review.*My Review: 3 Out Of 5 StarsThis is the first book in a series revolving around Sophie, a Harvard drop-out, and Anton, a famous tennis player trying to make a comeback after a shoulder injury. One of my favorite things about this book is that it focuses on both lead characters’ growth and struggle with self discovery. Neither are strictly the sounding board for the other here, and with their distinct personalities and voices it keeps each interaction interesting. I’m curious to see how they develop individually and together through the rest of the series, but can wait until the entire series is completed before picking back up again. This wasn’t a keep-me-up-all-night kind of read for me, but it was still enjoyable.There are multiple POV’s throughout the book, not just Sophia and Anton and it reads almost like a movie with the cut scenes between perspectives. Sometimes when authors use multiple POV it leads to a blending of voices that are all too similar, but that wasn’t an issue here. I was also very impressed with how Anton was written, I could hear his accent in my head while reading!A drawback for me was that the writing was disjointed in places with geological locations and chronology making it feel rough and unedited in places. An example is with locations/distances of schools in CA, but I doubt anyone would pick this up without having knowledge of the state - so if you’re not from CA then you’re good :). Because of this I needed to re-read some sections to see if I missed something, but it didn’t detract overly much from my enjoyment of the story.Also, I got a bit lost with the amount of characters at times, and trying to keep things straight when a character is mentioned once and then 200+ pages later they are brought up again and I’m like “who is this?” lol But that may be why the author added a Glossary at the end with all characters and their background. I did not know that was there until the end, but I recommend using it as you read through if you don’t remember a name!I would recommend this to anyone Teen and Up (no explicit/steamy sex scenes) who enjoys new adult stories revolving around self discovery and acceptance, sports, and series so the fun never ends!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Great debut!! By Purduenurse98 4.5/5 stars!!I received a free copy of "Hello, Privet!" by Maria Malonzo in exchange for an honest review."Hello, Privet!" is the first book in a series by Maria Malonzo. It revolves around Sophie, a 21yr old who is adrift in her life, being tossed between her family's expectations of her and figuring out her place in the world; and Anton, a professional tennis player who was once a bad boy athlete but has returned from an injury to work his way back up and improve his image. Sophie is a jew in a WASP home, with a senator for a step-father, a society matron for a mother and siblings (step, full and half) who excel at everything they do. To say she has family pressure is an understatement. She is a child prodigy who has a nervous breakdown (though we never learn the details) and flees to Israel to spend time with her father. After two years and his death, she returns to NYC to resume her place in the family. She is immediately bombarded by her well-meaning family as to what she will do next. Return to Harvard after she dropped out? Join her mother's charity work? How will she apply herself to make the family look good?Anton, a gorgeous and hot-headed athlete is driving those around him crazy. He is basically forced to see a therapist to work through his issues. That therapist happens to be Sophie's brother, whose best friend is Anton's agent. He wants only to win, at all costs, whether it further injures his body or he alienates himself by treating those around him horribly.Through a turn of events, Sophie ends up being thrown into the deep end of PR and becomes Anton's PR assistant. Despite the passive-aggressive and, quite frankly, aggressive-aggressive way her family treats her where she is a doormat, she doesn't take any of Anton's crap. She is different than any woman he has met. She is beautiful but not in the traditional sense. She is short, has long unruly hair, dresses like an artist from the seventies and is ridiculously intelligent. At first, all she does is irritate Anton and vice versa. But they start to see beneath the other's defenses, seeing the person laying beneath all the outside crap. How far will their friendship go? How hard are they willing to fight for what they both reluctantly want?This story is really an enjoyable read. It is the first in a series that the author says may be four or five books long, so character and world development is key. Which translates to a bit of a slow start. However, as we get to know these two and the people around them, it only adds to the richness of the story. The POV changes frequently, which takes some getting used to at first. I love dual POV, but it happens ALOT and isn't just dual. We hear from several characters, which also adds nicely to the depth of the story. We also hear from his fans and the press through blog entries, which is unique and fits perfectly with the story. I especially liked hearing from Sophie's mother. She comes off as so superficial from Sophie's POV, but hearing her intentions toward her daughter in her own words is deeper and helps me to not totally hate her. The other people around Sophie and Anton are interesting and fit seamlessly with the story, adding not taking away from the MC's.Sophie and Anton are not perfect people and the story portrays their journey to self-awareness well. It never feels forced or rushed, it feels organic and real. They are both likable, even when Anton is at his rudest. We learn early on why he is the way he is and what his true motivations are which gives a richer understanding of him.I couldn't put it down. The story ends nicely, no cliffhanger but definitely not finished. We don't hear much about her ex-boyfriend and what happened to push her to flee to Israel for two years. Hopefully that gets out in the next book because it was clearly a big deal in Sophie's life. I only wish that the next book came out sooner!!
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. This was a really fun book! By marnett I finished this book a day ago, and at the end of it, I was smiling because I was thinking, "Damn! That was great!" and then I was like, "Damn, that's it?" --because there's an itty bitty cliffhanger and I want to know more about what happens to Anton and Sophie. (EDIT: If anyone's wondering, it's a happy ending, but the author hasn't explored the relationship yet so I'm dying to read the next book.)Well, what can I say except this was a really fun book! The author knows how to write comedy, and I don't mean the slapstick kind of comedy. It's more like a snarky, witty, sarcastic comedy mixed in with some heartwarming drama and angst, which is how I like my stories.This is the sort of book that would be enjoyable for anyone, even guys (I dare you to try it and see if you don't like it). It's not at all cheesy, as what I've come to expect from this genre. I think this is also the kind of book that even non-readers will love. First, it’s an easy read, and it's written like a movie. The dialogue is sharp and whip-smart. The writing is deceptively simple and spare, the chapters are short, and it’s funny as hell, especially the articles and comments-- they were so spot on!This book has multiple POVs, like a movie, or a TV show. That can be a problem for some readers, but the writer was skilled enough to pull it off. Once I got into it, it didn't bother me at all. It's narrated by the two main characters, the first of which is Sophie Rosenbaum, described in the blurb as a 21-year old former child prodigy and Harvard dropout, but let me add witty, feisty and sassy to that list. At the same time she's also fragile, having just lost her father to cancer, and she's very uncertain about her future, not to mention feeling pressured by her illustrious, political family to be a success, just like them. She doesn't seem to fit in with her perfect, accomplished and super wealthy family. There's even a funny scene where she's sent to an image consultant (because her stepfather's a senator and running for his second term). The image consultant immediately decides that she's not quite right, and attempts to give her a makeover so she can fit in.She's also constantly nagged by her family to do something about her future, so she gets an internship at a PR firm, where she meets Anton Akhmerov, a popular Russian tennis player. Sophie's assigned to be the PR assistant of Anton as no one else wants the job. Anton is known to be difficult (he breaks rackets and is a PR nightmare) and at first, he seems like your typical NA hero: kind of a jerk, arrogant, a bad boy and a commitment-phobe womanizer, and Sophie disliked him intensely in the beginning, as did I. But as I read on, I realized he's more than that. Anton and Sophie disagree about a lot of things, and they fight and argue a lot which is very hilarious. Some of the best dialogue is when these two fight.I liked that the characters are flawed and layered. Sophie is at times immature, but she's very self-aware. She claims several times that her life is a mess and that she's crazy. She's an outsider even in her own family. Maybe like most intelligent people, as well as being a child prodigy, she feels separated/different from other people, but this only makes her more sensitive to other people's feelings. I think that’s kind of what makes Sophie so lovable as a character: she knows she's flawed, but she is kind to everyone, even to the mean girls at her office. But this girl's no pushover. She can hold her own. She knows who she is, and stands by her principles, cares about causes (in this book, there's a Russian-Georgian War, and I checked…it did happen around August 2008, when this book was set.)Sophie's my kind of character: smart, kind of a bleeding heart liberal who always wants to do the right thing (and also wants everyone around her to do the same), she loves art and culture, she can be opinionated but self-deprecatingly funny.You can tell while reading the book that Sophie is hiding pain that she can't even articulate, or doesn't want to articulate. The grownups around her seem to know it, but they leave her well enough alone. By the way, another thing I liked about this book, the parental figures aren't completely absent from the story. They are very much a part of her life, and we even hear from her mother and brother who give their own opinions about Sophie (through their POV narration). Her parents, her siblings and stepsiblings are all telling her what to do about her life, but that's what families are like when they care. I can sort of relate… I like her relationship with her half-brother James the most. He seems like he's the only one in her family who really understands her.Okay, now about Anton. At first I was a bit confused by his narrations, then I began to understand that he's a foreigner speaking English as a second language. Female authors rarely do a good job of creating an authentic male voice, and a Russian one at that, but the language and the nuances of Anton's character seem so real, that I felt like I was really inside Anton's head. I don't know how the author did it! Reading his parts gave me insight about the pressure on celebrity athletes, how their lives aren't as fun as it seems. The way Anton's parts were written are so completely different from the Americans.' Even without the names before each chapter, I could tell who was speaking. It even includes some other languages like Russian and French (Anton can speak several languages). I asked a French-speaking friend what the phrases meant because I was curious, but there are context clues within the text anyway. Still, I liked that they were left untranslated, because in the real world, we're not supposed to understand everything people say; it reminds me that the world is full of many different people who have a different culture and a different language. That said, I think the novel's theme is about misunderstanding, miscommunication and acceptance of who we really are.Anyone reading the synopsis will think this is the usual, enemies to lovers trope, or the opposites attract trope, and it is, but Maria Malonzo updates the trope and gives it her own twist. To say that it's a cliche is a disservice to the author. In these types of books, you already expect how the story will flow, but "Hello, Privet!" is not at all predictable, probably due to the fantastic and very real characters the author has created. It's not just a romance, it's also about the struggles of Anton and Sophie to make something of themselves.Sophie and Anton both have their own goals. They're not just supporting characters in each other's stories. Anton isn't an object for the girl to attract, and the girl isn't an object to be won by the guy. They have their own struggles, their own problems. I can see what the author did there, because although these characters couldn't be any more different-- they are parallels of each other. They're both carrying the weight of expectation on their shoulders, because of their talent-- for Anton it's tennis, and for Sophie it's her intelligence.As you can probably tell, I really enjoyed this book, but I do have a few quibbles. There are way too many characters, that's probably why there's a glossary. Everyone is beautiful and attractive--an impression I got because no one is described as ugly…but maybe it's because none of the narrators bother letting us know which characters are ugly. So okay, maybe this isn't a quibble.... Also, everyone is rich, except maybe for Sophie's friends Minju and Seth. Although I have to admit, it's refreshing that both of the characters are rich, so this wasn't an issue--they had other issues to worry about. Still, the brand name dropping was a bit annoying, but I guess it's a commentary on the materialism of some of the characters as well as their obsession with status... Sophie herself prefers the thrift store and the creations of her friend Aphro.I can say that the good definitely outweighs the bad. It has been a long time since I enjoyed a book this much. Maria Malonzo is a talented writer and the dialogue just crackles on the page, or the Kindle, in this case.In short, I loved this book. It's perfect if you're looking for some light summer reading. It has the right balance of comedy, romance and drama, the pacing was just right and there's no insta-love (which I detest in romance novels) and it contained valuable messages, which weren't delivered in a cheesy way.
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