A review by a_robin_reads
Wat Milo zag by Virginia MacGregor

3.0

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Information:

• Owned book

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Review:

What I liked:
The plot 
The characters

What I didn't like:
The writing (or translation)
Some things were repeated too often
The pessimism of the book
The sexual things (this is a middle grade after all)

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Review previously placed on my blog:

I'm currently reading What Milo saw by Virginia Macgregor. This is my TBR jar pick for March and also part of middle grade March. I'm loving this so far, it's awesome. I'm not yet feeling the wow-factor, so would give it 4 stars right now, but who knows.

Me loving this book went fast downhill. This was because this book portrays the homes for the elderly in a very bad way. I didn't like that at all. It was really hard to read and I was tempted to put this book down quit a few times. What I also didn't like were the sexual bits thrown in here. This is a middle grade book and I found that very inappropiate. On the other hand was the writing. That was pretty good and the plot itself was also good apart from the issues I mentioned. The representation in this book is also very good. The maincharacter Milo has a condition which blindes him bit by bit. You also follow his grandmother who hasn't spoken since her husband died. You follow Milo's mother who is depressed and had a divorce. And the last character is a refugee from Syria who works at the home for the elderly. I really liked those aspects of this book. So there were proes and cons and therefore I gave it 3 stars. 

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