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A review by nerdypotsie
Shiloh Season by Phyllis Reynolds Naylor
1.0
TW//
Shiloh Season is slightly better than the first book in the series because it adds in some lessons that kids can take away from the story. There’s discussions of informal vs. formal language, how someone aging can be both sad and funny, and how the line between right and wrong isn’t always clear. Those are good messages for people to learn, especially kids, but I still don’t think I’d encourage any kid to read this story. There is a lot of animal abuse and some disturbing content in this series that only extremely mature kids can handle.
Despite the fact that this book was slightly better than the previous one, I still hated almost everything about it. I didn’t like any of the characters besides Shiloh. All of the characters either had dull personalities or they did some terrible things.
The plot as a whole didn’t hold my attention either. Most of the story was boring and the constant side tangents in every chapter got on my nerves. It didn’t help, too, that most of the content in this story made me depressed. There’s only so much animal abuse and animal death that I can handle reading in one story.
I will not be continuing with this series. There’s no point in me reading more of the Shiloh books since there isn’t much about them that I actually enjoy. I honestly only read this sequel because I’ve had it on my shelf since I was a kid. Also, based off of the ending to this book, it seems like this series is going to give a redemption arc to an animal abuser. I hope I’m reading the foreshadowing wrong, but regardless, I’m not going to stick with this series to find out if the animal abuser actually gets redeemed.
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animal abuse, mentions of child abuse, drunk driving, car crash, some gory descriptions, animal death, alcoholism, small moments of sexismShiloh Season is slightly better than the first book in the series because it adds in some lessons that kids can take away from the story. There’s discussions of informal vs. formal language, how someone aging can be both sad and funny, and how the line between right and wrong isn’t always clear. Those are good messages for people to learn, especially kids, but I still don’t think I’d encourage any kid to read this story. There is a lot of animal abuse and some disturbing content in this series that only extremely mature kids can handle.
Despite the fact that this book was slightly better than the previous one, I still hated almost everything about it. I didn’t like any of the characters besides Shiloh. All of the characters either had dull personalities or they did some terrible things.
The plot as a whole didn’t hold my attention either. Most of the story was boring and the constant side tangents in every chapter got on my nerves. It didn’t help, too, that most of the content in this story made me depressed. There’s only so much animal abuse and animal death that I can handle reading in one story.
I will not be continuing with this series. There’s no point in me reading more of the Shiloh books since there isn’t much about them that I actually enjoy. I honestly only read this sequel because I’ve had it on my shelf since I was a kid. Also, based off of the ending to this book, it seems like this series is going to give a redemption arc to an animal abuser. I hope I’m reading the foreshadowing wrong, but regardless, I’m not going to stick with this series to find out if the animal abuser actually gets redeemed.