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A review by piperhudsburn
Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson
4.0
Sad, melancholic, and more angsty than a Three Days Grace song from the 00's, but 100% worth it.
Jodi Lynn Anderson has a gift for stories about loving and leaving. Her children's series May Bird and the Ever After dealt with the notion of leaving in a very literal way: a child dies and reappears in another galaxy, while in The Vanishing Season, a love triangle is torn apart over the course of winter and an "emotional" absence in the form of unrequited love. In Midnight at the Electric, Anderson's chosen themes of magical realism, unexpected narration, and lost love return, this time in the form of two twin stories: one set in the future, and one set in the not so distant past: the Great Depression.
Midnight isn't as interesting or enthralling as Anderson's other books, but it feels like a stronger work. Anderson takes on sci-fi, mental-illness, war, racism, political strife and a whole bunch of other important issues in this story, and she handles them all pretty well. Every idea is complete and easy-to-follow.
It's worth a read and a place on your shelf.
“I wonder if sometimes you can miss something so much it breaks you, and still be happy you left.”
Jodi Lynn Anderson has a gift for stories about loving and leaving. Her children's series May Bird and the Ever After dealt with the notion of leaving in a very literal way: a child dies and reappears in another galaxy, while in The Vanishing Season, a love triangle is torn apart over the course of winter and an "emotional" absence in the form of unrequited love. In Midnight at the Electric, Anderson's chosen themes of magical realism, unexpected narration, and lost love return, this time in the form of two twin stories: one set in the future, and one set in the not so distant past: the Great Depression.
Midnight isn't as interesting or enthralling as Anderson's other books, but it feels like a stronger work. Anderson takes on sci-fi, mental-illness, war, racism, political strife and a whole bunch of other important issues in this story, and she handles them all pretty well. Every idea is complete and easy-to-follow.
It's worth a read and a place on your shelf.