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Graffiti Moon
by Cath Crowley
In “Graffiti Moon” by Cath Crowley, Lucy spends a long night trying to find a teenage graffiti artist that goes by the name Shadow. Even though she’s never met him, she feels a connection with him through his artwork. However, it becomes clear right away that her image of Shadow is not realistic.
Crowley did an excellent job creating complex, realistic characters. While Lucy shows that she’s perfectly capable of taking care of herself, she also has an underlying naivety. This is particularly evident when she mentions that she’s going to “do it” with Shadow. And then there’s Ed, who joins Lucy on her search. Ed is a former classmate of Lucy’s, who left school in year ten. There’s such a sadness to his struggle, living in poverty, stuck in a seemingly dead-end future, and still mourning the death of his friend and mentor, Bert.
As the night wears on, Lucy and Ed discover that they have much more in common than they imagined. They also begin to see that sometimes expectations do not live up to the reality and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
If I had one criticism of this book, it’s that it can be a bit repetitive when Lucy and Ed’s points of view overlap. I didn’t think it was necessary to summarize an entire scene from the other character’s perspective. I really did enjoy the book overall, though. It was a great story, and I enjoyed Googling the artwork they mentioned in the story.
Crowley did an excellent job creating complex, realistic characters. While Lucy shows that she’s perfectly capable of taking care of herself, she also has an underlying naivety. This is particularly evident when she mentions that she’s going to “do it” with Shadow. And then there’s Ed, who joins Lucy on her search. Ed is a former classmate of Lucy’s, who left school in year ten. There’s such a sadness to his struggle, living in poverty, stuck in a seemingly dead-end future, and still mourning the death of his friend and mentor, Bert.
As the night wears on, Lucy and Ed discover that they have much more in common than they imagined. They also begin to see that sometimes expectations do not live up to the reality and that’s not necessarily a bad thing.
If I had one criticism of this book, it’s that it can be a bit repetitive when Lucy and Ed’s points of view overlap. I didn’t think it was necessary to summarize an entire scene from the other character’s perspective. I really did enjoy the book overall, though. It was a great story, and I enjoyed Googling the artwork they mentioned in the story.