A review by charlote_1347
Holes by Louis Sachar

3.0

I read this because it is a set text where I work, and somehow I never read it while I was in school. The plot was overly complicated in places but brilliantly basic in others. I found it hard to figure out who was descended from who and which generation was which. The main characters were intriguing and almost perfectly rendered but again, I had some difficulty remembering which nickname belonged to which boy and what each looked like. The side story with Katherine, the onion farmer and Trout was cute but tragic. The scenes with the onion farmer towards the end confused me initially because some of the plot is not linear. Generally a good read but I don't think I suffered too much by being deprived of it in childhood.