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Beck by Mal Peet
2.0
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I really wasn't a huge fan of this. I liked the premise, and really wanted to know more about what historically happened in Catholic accommodation for orphans, but Beck quickly moved on from this and began a journey across Canada. A different plot from what I envisenged, but I was happy to go along with it as a character exploration or a tale of adventure on a journey across Canada. Instead, Beck was a broken, bit-ty book - there seemed to be a multitude of miny plots, but they weren't sewn together very well and instead presented a choppy, bit-here-bit-there sort of tale. Definitely not among my favourites on this year's Carnegie shortlist.
I really wasn't a huge fan of this. I liked the premise, and really wanted to know more about what historically happened in Catholic accommodation for orphans, but Beck quickly moved on from this and began a journey across Canada. A different plot from what I envisenged, but I was happy to go along with it as a character exploration or a tale of adventure on a journey across Canada. Instead, Beck was a broken, bit-ty book - there seemed to be a multitude of miny plots, but they weren't sewn together very well and instead presented a choppy, bit-here-bit-there sort of tale. Definitely not among my favourites on this year's Carnegie shortlist.