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This was a nice easy read for a sleepless night, but that’s about all there is to it. Wendy is a pretty traumatised teen, making another attempt at a new school in a new town. She feels very Other & outcast, assuming that she’s treated more harshly than others as a result of this otherness. The only person she really cares for is her big brother, Matt.
Until the New Kid won’t stop staring at her.
Then things get weird & Wendy loses all sense, a bit. I mean, things do get pretty crazy, but that’s no reason to spend more time worrying about A Boy than about your family.
I understand several aspects of Wendy. Teenage years are hard, & trauma of any kind makes them harder. First relationships can be all-consuming, & first heartbreaks just as much. Knowing things are being kept from you is rough. Asking questions & getting blank faces as a response is disheartening. O understand that.
It’s more difficult to reconcile the “strong willed” & “short tempered” Wendy with the scared-into-silence Wendy. The Wendy who takes undeserved criticism without even pulling faces over the injustice doesn’t seem like a strong willed & short tempered person.
The character development in the book was probably its most prominent feature. The plot has issues & holes, but there’s some good setup for the next book. Exposition, though… wow, that’s lacking. I couldn’t tell you what colour skin Wendy has. I couldn’t tell you what the “palace” looks like, other than White & Many Windows. I couldn’t work out what was where; the descriptions were so loose & contradictory that I have no mental map of the place. I couldn’t even tell you what colour any of the rooms were. I hope this improved in the rest of the series. I’m unsure whether I’d want to read more.
Until the New Kid won’t stop staring at her.
Then things get weird & Wendy loses all sense, a bit. I mean, things do get pretty crazy, but that’s no reason to spend more time worrying about A Boy than about your family.
I understand several aspects of Wendy. Teenage years are hard, & trauma of any kind makes them harder. First relationships can be all-consuming, & first heartbreaks just as much. Knowing things are being kept from you is rough. Asking questions & getting blank faces as a response is disheartening. O understand that.
It’s more difficult to reconcile the “strong willed” & “short tempered” Wendy with the scared-into-silence Wendy. The Wendy who takes undeserved criticism without even pulling faces over the injustice doesn’t seem like a strong willed & short tempered person.
The character development in the book was probably its most prominent feature. The plot has issues & holes, but there’s some good setup for the next book. Exposition, though… wow, that’s lacking. I couldn’t tell you what colour skin Wendy has. I couldn’t tell you what the “palace” looks like, other than White & Many Windows. I couldn’t work out what was where; the descriptions were so loose & contradictory that I have no mental map of the place. I couldn’t even tell you what colour any of the rooms were. I hope this improved in the rest of the series. I’m unsure whether I’d want to read more.