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A review by samanthabryant
Feathers by Jorge Corona
4.0
What an intriguing set of characters and interesting setting! Feathers takes place in a world where there is "the city" and "the maze." The city is clean and white and perfect, sterile even. The maze is rough and tumble, in want, and falling apart. Of course, the worlds must collide.
Poe is a boy with feathers, who lives hidden away with his adoptive father in the maze. Bianca is the bored daughter of a wealthy city family, who craves adventure. When the two become friends, they are both changed, and their assumptions upturned.
We also have a bad guy who is a kind of Pied Piper, a group of street kids called Mice that feel very Dickensian, Poe's adoptive father who has secrets as well, and two mysterious narrators who appear only as voices in text boxes at the story's outset and close.
While I felt the volume ended rather abruptly, even given probably intentions for a sequel, it was still quite a creative and entertaining story that explores moral issues without becoming directly pedantic (as too many works aimed at young readers do).
Poe is a boy with feathers, who lives hidden away with his adoptive father in the maze. Bianca is the bored daughter of a wealthy city family, who craves adventure. When the two become friends, they are both changed, and their assumptions upturned.
We also have a bad guy who is a kind of Pied Piper, a group of street kids called Mice that feel very Dickensian, Poe's adoptive father who has secrets as well, and two mysterious narrators who appear only as voices in text boxes at the story's outset and close.
While I felt the volume ended rather abruptly, even given probably intentions for a sequel, it was still quite a creative and entertaining story that explores moral issues without becoming directly pedantic (as too many works aimed at young readers do).