Gabrielle S. Prendergast
Author of Zero Repeat Forever
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- female
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- Canada
- Places of residence
- Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Note: I received an F&G of this book from the publisher at ALA Annual 2019.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.Tried to read this book, but couldn't connect with the story or characters.
This review was written for LibraryThing Early Reviewers.A quick and delightful read, one perfect for drawing in tweens just getting into chapter books with a fantasy theme. I'm giving my copy to the eleven year old boy I mentor and hope he enjoys it as much as I did.
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- Rating
- 4.0
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While the foundation of this story is very easy to follow along with, it does suffer from the length. This is a novella sized middle grade story so everything happens back to back to back. There is no lull in the story so it makes it very easy to quickly digest. The problem for me was that because it was so fast and so short it gave no time to really enjoy your time with Blue and the many people he meets. All the lore that is built is extremely minimal and nothing goes into detail, its hard to feel the love between Blue and his siblings, the journey is extremely short, the friendships Blue makes feel hollow. Its a cute story, but I would have loved to have seen this fleshed out to a longer length, I feel it would have really made the story better.… (more)