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A review by vaibhavsh2624
The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff
4.0
The Great Godden by Meg Rosoff is a summer break saga. Every year our narrator and their family moves into a beach house to spend the summer. The parents, the family friends who stay in another house on the beach, and all the kids enjoy the languid summer days in their own separate ways. Everyone is having fun and they have a wedding to plan 'cause Mal and Hope are finally tying the knot and there are horses and lavish dinners and long long walks. Enter the Godden brothers, Kit and Hugo and everything looks fine for a while but then it all just starts to crumble, "there's a serpent in the Paradise".
It's a bit slow in the beginning because it's set on a beach in summer and time is plenty and slow moving. The moment the readers cross the half point, it picks up the pace, things start happening, you get a bit more clarity about what's going down and the twist makes you sigh because though you didn't notice it, you were holding your breath.
There are two things which I really liked about this book which also made me bump it up from 3 to 4 stars.
a) Though it's only supposed to run over a summer break, I am glad it went beyond it and we got to see the aftermath about most of the characters. Without the aftermath, it would have been a half baked story.
b) [MINOR SPOILER] Though a particular character's sexuality plays an important role at the culmination point, the author refrained from using the sexuality as a plot twist itself. Using sexuality as a plot twist is the worst thing to do and I am glad this book didn't go there.
I can not tell you more but you should definitely pick it up. It's a satisfying read.
Thank you Bloomsbury India for the review copy.
It's a bit slow in the beginning because it's set on a beach in summer and time is plenty and slow moving. The moment the readers cross the half point, it picks up the pace, things start happening, you get a bit more clarity about what's going down and the twist makes you sigh because though you didn't notice it, you were holding your breath.
There are two things which I really liked about this book which also made me bump it up from 3 to 4 stars.
a) Though it's only supposed to run over a summer break, I am glad it went beyond it and we got to see the aftermath about most of the characters. Without the aftermath, it would have been a half baked story.
b) [MINOR SPOILER] Though a particular character's sexuality plays an important role at the culmination point, the author refrained from using the sexuality as a plot twist itself. Using sexuality as a plot twist is the worst thing to do and I am glad this book didn't go there.
I can not tell you more but you should definitely pick it up. It's a satisfying read.
Thank you Bloomsbury India for the review copy.