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A review by taylorthiel
Raft of Stars by Andrew J. Graff
4.0
3.5 rounded up. Maybe 3.75. I don’t really know how I feel about this book tbh. I’ve never read anything like it.
The story itself was unbelievable (literally) but also riveting. Any scene with the two boys Fish and Bread alone was amazing and really powerful. (Fish and Bread like Jesus’s miracle I think was the point of that).
The writing was really beautiful and mature. The descriptions of nature were especially good. It felt like a very cinematic book if that makes sense.
I also have read a book this recently that had Christian themes in a positive way. Not sure if the author intended that. But Fish’s mom was a straight up or Pentecostal Christian and she’s pretty much the most bad ass cool character in the book. It wasn’t overt, but it did feel like the author wanted us to see God in everything. So that was different. I didn’t hate it, but I also wasn’t fully bought into it either.
Tiffany bothered me on a lot of levels only because I feel like she was definitely a woman written by a man. This girl literally spent a year homeless, fighting for her life, and all she was worried about was getting a husband? That didn’t really track for me. I feel like after the trauma she endured it would’ve made more sense for her to know that she could take care of herself. But the whole time she kept calling herself worthless and hoping that the sheriff would marry her. So that is probably why I didn’t give this a higher rating honestly.
The story itself was unbelievable (literally) but also riveting. Any scene with the two boys Fish and Bread alone was amazing and really powerful. (Fish and Bread like Jesus’s miracle I think was the point of that).
The writing was really beautiful and mature. The descriptions of nature were especially good. It felt like a very cinematic book if that makes sense.
I also have read a book this recently that had Christian themes in a positive way. Not sure if the author intended that. But Fish’s mom was a straight up or Pentecostal Christian and she’s pretty much the most bad ass cool character in the book. It wasn’t overt, but it did feel like the author wanted us to see God in everything. So that was different. I didn’t hate it, but I also wasn’t fully bought into it either.
Tiffany bothered me on a lot of levels only because I feel like she was definitely a woman written by a man. This girl literally spent a year homeless, fighting for her life, and all she was worried about was getting a husband? That didn’t really track for me. I feel like after the trauma she endured it would’ve made more sense for her to know that she could take care of herself. But the whole time she kept calling herself worthless and hoping that the sheriff would marry her. So that is probably why I didn’t give this a higher rating honestly.