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A review by kerasalwaysreading
Starling by Isabel Strychacz
4.0
While I struggled with this one a little bit on the reading journey, I needed to read it in it entirety to fully appreciate it. This is a story that had me fuming at times. And when I say it was the story that had me fuming, I mean the characters and their actions!!! Overall this book is solid, though. This is heartwarming and intense in emotion.
There are four main characters in this book: Delta, he younger sister Bee, Delta’s (sort of) ex boyfriend Tag and the mysterious boy who falls from the sky, Starling. In the town they live in, Delta’s family is outcasted and thought of as weird. It doesn’t help that Delta and Bee’s father really is weird and that he literally disappeared months ago. But he has always instilled in his daughters the understanding and the love of the unknown and unexplainable. These are things that the mayor of their town does NOT agree with. Mayor Rockford, Tag’s father doesn’t even hide his distaste for the family, causing a major rift between Delta and Tag.
When a meteor shower hits and something falls on Delta’s property, she isn’t the only one who notices. And the beautiful boy that she finds is in real danger if Mayor Rockford learns of his existence.
So begins a series of events, decisions and actions that will leave you questioning people’s motives… the one thing that had me in the fence about this book was that all four of these main characters all act in a way that they outwardly portray as live, but in actuality, their actions are incredibly selfish. For one reason or another, their decisions and actions are made to benefit themselves under the guise of doing what is right. It definitely becomes clear and they see the flaw in the design, but it doesn’t change the act that what’s done is done.
Even still, this book was really something and I could definitely understand the rationality of each person and the choices they made. This book had a whole lot of love in it and quite a bit of pulse pounding adventure.
There are four main characters in this book: Delta, he younger sister Bee, Delta’s (sort of) ex boyfriend Tag and the mysterious boy who falls from the sky, Starling. In the town they live in, Delta’s family is outcasted and thought of as weird. It doesn’t help that Delta and Bee’s father really is weird and that he literally disappeared months ago. But he has always instilled in his daughters the understanding and the love of the unknown and unexplainable. These are things that the mayor of their town does NOT agree with. Mayor Rockford, Tag’s father doesn’t even hide his distaste for the family, causing a major rift between Delta and Tag.
When a meteor shower hits and something falls on Delta’s property, she isn’t the only one who notices. And the beautiful boy that she finds is in real danger if Mayor Rockford learns of his existence.
So begins a series of events, decisions and actions that will leave you questioning people’s motives… the one thing that had me in the fence about this book was that all four of these main characters all act in a way that they outwardly portray as live, but in actuality, their actions are incredibly selfish. For one reason or another, their decisions and actions are made to benefit themselves under the guise of doing what is right. It definitely becomes clear and they see the flaw in the design, but it doesn’t change the act that what’s done is done.
Even still, this book was really something and I could definitely understand the rationality of each person and the choices they made. This book had a whole lot of love in it and quite a bit of pulse pounding adventure.