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A review by charleyreads
Over the Rainbow by Brian Rowe
2.0
This YA over-the-top fantasy apocalyptic romance follows Zipporah (aka Zippy) as she tries to find her way to Seattle to be united with her online first love. The story starts with Zippy boarding a plane on her way to an ‘anti-gay’ camp being sent there by her authoritative super religious father. On a whim she stows herself away in a strangers suitcase and in a completely unbelievable (seriously, unbelievable) turn of events she ends up in the cargo hold when the plane mysteriously crashes.
The story unfolds as Zippy meets a boy with no brain (concussion), a man with a heart that doesn’t work (heart defect) and a random dog (called Judy, yes really, Judy).
I was expecting this book to be a quirky fairy tale retelling with LGBT twist. I was unfortunately disappointed. The story was fast enough paced but some of the themes seemed completely random. There was no real reason for the dinosaurs, oh yeah, did I mention that the world is being over taken by dinosaurs? It seemed completely random and I felt like the story would have advanced just fine without the dinosaurs and it felt very cluttered with that addition.
Overall the characters were cute, the romance was realistic given the time (it’s set in the late 90’s) and the throwbacks to the 90’s were lovely. Even though all these things were great it was over shadowed by the bizarre additives and twists.
Overall it’s a good novelty novel but unfortunately that’s where it ends. It could have been an amazing coming of age fantasy LGBT novel but it fell short by trying too hard. Such a shame.
The story unfolds as Zippy meets a boy with no brain (concussion), a man with a heart that doesn’t work (heart defect) and a random dog (called Judy, yes really, Judy).
I was expecting this book to be a quirky fairy tale retelling with LGBT twist. I was unfortunately disappointed. The story was fast enough paced but some of the themes seemed completely random. There was no real reason for the dinosaurs, oh yeah, did I mention that the world is being over taken by dinosaurs? It seemed completely random and I felt like the story would have advanced just fine without the dinosaurs and it felt very cluttered with that addition.
Overall the characters were cute, the romance was realistic given the time (it’s set in the late 90’s) and the throwbacks to the 90’s were lovely. Even though all these things were great it was over shadowed by the bizarre additives and twists.
Overall it’s a good novelty novel but unfortunately that’s where it ends. It could have been an amazing coming of age fantasy LGBT novel but it fell short by trying too hard. Such a shame.