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A review by paracosm
Fight + Flight by Jules Machias
4.0
I could count all the middle grade books I've read this year with the fingers on one hand and still have fingers left. Still, this was quite good. It has a lot of diversity and it manages to talk about quite serious topics while still being "child-friendly".
There are times where it feels incredibly heavy-handed. But it's written for children, so I don't have much reason to complain. Still, I like it when books have rooms for interpretation.
It's one of those books where one of the POVs is from journal entries, but the character that writes it doesn't wait until the end to the day to do so. Instead, she pulls out her journal in the middle of whatever she's doing and starts writing. Doesn't matter if she's in the middle of class, in a moving car, during lunch. Nobody ever comments on it.
One weird detail I found is the fact that there's a 13 year old girl with multiple piercings in both ears and a nose ring. The has around seven of them or more. I'm all in favor of body modifications, but isn't she too young for that? By the time the book starts they've been there for a while. She could have been getting piercings as young as 10 or 11 eleven years old. What kind of piercer puts a nose ring in a elementary school kid? Again, nobody ever comments on it.
There are times where it feels incredibly heavy-handed. But it's written for children, so I don't have much reason to complain. Still, I like it when books have rooms for interpretation.
It's one of those books where one of the POVs is from journal entries, but the character that writes it doesn't wait until the end to the day to do so. Instead, she pulls out her journal in the middle of whatever she's doing and starts writing. Doesn't matter if she's in the middle of class, in a moving car, during lunch. Nobody ever comments on it.
One weird detail I found is the fact that there's a 13 year old girl with multiple piercings in both ears and a nose ring. The has around seven of them or more. I'm all in favor of body modifications, but isn't she too young for that? By the time the book starts they've been there for a while. She could have been getting piercings as young as 10 or 11 eleven years old. What kind of piercer puts a nose ring in a elementary school kid? Again, nobody ever comments on it.