A review by jimodonnell
Far North by Marcel Theroux

2.0

I found this book to be incredibly disappointing. The first few pages and even the first few chapters are quite good and I felt myself drawn into the story. But then the author failed us. The main character is pretty uninteresting and all the secondary characters are undeveloped, two dimensional nothings. The story itself is also quite lame. Makepeace, the main character, sees a plane crash and tries to seek out where it came from. But for most of the book the plane has no role as she goes a stockaded village to an internment camp for most of the book. In the end we find out where the plane comes from but with very little adult information and a plot to simply makes no sense. Magical jelly? Honestly, I don't really understand the point of this whole book. I will credit the author, however, for excellent writing. The writing is quite beautiful if the rest of the book itself is quite lame. I can't understand how this book won any awards. Disappointing.