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cozylifewithabby's review against another edition
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.75
This book was inspiring, heart breaking, and informative. The language is easy as it is a Middle Grade/YA, but the story is important as it combines different people's real experiences in the Korean War (including the author's mother) into a fictional narrative of a young girl and her brother.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny
Moderate: Excrement, Child death, Death of parent, War, and Vomit
brogan7's review against another edition
adventurous
emotional
informative
sad
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
4.5
I read this book because I'm always looking for something to read with my 11-year-old son. This one would be too intense for him, but I read it through and really enjoyed it. A story about a family fleeing North Korea in 1950, it is intense and terrifying but also hopeful; heartbreaking and at the same time asking important questions about the price of survival and how to go on when humanity has lost all sense of reason.
This is the story I was looking for when I read The druid and the dragon. It is completely different, of course, being historical fiction instead of fantasy, but it is a story about a girl without a notion of how to be strong in the world, who discovers her own strength and who becomes who she is really meant to be.
This is the story I was looking for when I read The druid and the dragon. It is completely different, of course, being historical fiction instead of fantasy, but it is a story about a girl without a notion of how to be strong in the world, who discovers her own strength and who becomes who she is really meant to be.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Misogyny and War
Moderate: Child death and Chronic illness
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