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justine_ao 's review for:
The Country of Ice Cream Star
by Sandra Newman
This was such an interesting book for me. When I first started it, honestly, I wasn't sure if I was going to be able to read it the way it was written using the language as spoken by Ice Cream Star and her people. In fact, it ended up giving the book a wonderful texture that I think would have been difficult to achieve otherwise.
The story was interesting and moved in directions I didn't always expect. There was a real emotional depth to the characters and again, they developed in ways that I did not necessarily foresee at the outset. All in all, I ended up enjoying the book very much. My only real complaint would be with the ending, which really felt rather abrupt and unsatisfying after everything leading up to it.
This is definitely not a book for everyone, but I thought it was a sharp, original and emotional piece of writing.
The story was interesting and moved in directions I didn't always expect. There was a real emotional depth to the characters and again, they developed in ways that I did not necessarily foresee at the outset. All in all, I ended up enjoying the book very much. My only real complaint would be with the ending, which really felt rather abrupt and unsatisfying after everything leading up to it.
This is definitely not a book for everyone, but I thought it was a sharp, original and emotional piece of writing.