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A review by lawbooks600
Shouting at the Rain by Lynda Mullaly Hunt
emotional
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
Representation: N/A?
Score: Seven points out of ten.
I wanted to read this book for a while and then not long after I finally picked this up from one of the two libraries I go to, and this won a Western Australian Young Readers Book Award two years ago and honestly? This deserves it, it was well executed but unfortunately as far as I know this is the only book they have from this author so I don't know whether her other books will be good or not. They might be. They might not. It starts with the main character Delsie McHill or Delsie for short and she after losing her parents and her friend abandoning her (for reasons I'll get to later) she moves to Cape Cod to live with her grandmother for most of the story. She soon starts a new relationship with another major character called Ronan (who has issues of his own) and here's the thing: some aspects of this book like fishing, moving and grief felt so familiar to me, it's like the author borrowed them from other books like Ebb and Flow by Heather Smith, Swim That Rock by John Rocco and Jay Primiano and even The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin and The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga. I felt major déjà vu from that. Now that I said that there's nothing much to say other than Delsie's father died, her mother left but at least the ending was a high note.
Score: Seven points out of ten.
I wanted to read this book for a while and then not long after I finally picked this up from one of the two libraries I go to, and this won a Western Australian Young Readers Book Award two years ago and honestly? This deserves it, it was well executed but unfortunately as far as I know this is the only book they have from this author so I don't know whether her other books will be good or not. They might be. They might not. It starts with the main character Delsie McHill or Delsie for short and she after losing her parents and her friend abandoning her (for reasons I'll get to later) she moves to Cape Cod to live with her grandmother for most of the story. She soon starts a new relationship with another major character called Ronan (who has issues of his own) and here's the thing: some aspects of this book like fishing, moving and grief felt so familiar to me, it's like the author borrowed them from other books like Ebb and Flow by Heather Smith, Swim That Rock by John Rocco and Jay Primiano and even The Thing About Jellyfish by Ali Benjamin and The Shape of Thunder by Jasmine Warga. I felt major déjà vu from that. Now that I said that there's nothing much to say other than Delsie's father died, her mother left but at least the ending was a high note.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, and Grief
Moderate: Death
Full trigger warnings: Disappearance of a mother, death of a father, bullying, physical injury, blood depiction