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laurencenz 's review for:
The Animals in That Country
by Laura Jean McKay
Fantastic storytelling. Loved the talking animals - as KIm Hill desrcibed their language as gnomic haiku. It took me some time to attune to it, and I will want to go back and read it again to get more meaning.
The plot was thrilling and the characters completely believable. The end was gripping, and satisfying.
The talking animals made me think back to "the knife of letting go" by Patrick Ness, who gave us a different view of the world from the animal's POV. But Laura goes so much farther =- the character of the dingo Sue is so vivid: she has a full personality, and a complex relationship with Jean, the protagonist.
And the whale talk was brilliant.
The plot was thrilling and the characters completely believable. The end was gripping, and satisfying.
The talking animals made me think back to "the knife of letting go" by Patrick Ness, who gave us a different view of the world from the animal's POV. But Laura goes so much farther =- the character of the dingo Sue is so vivid: she has a full personality, and a complex relationship with Jean, the protagonist.
And the whale talk was brilliant.