A review by debs4jc
Etta and Otto and Russell and James by Emma Hooper

2.0

This turned out to be a tedious read for me, as I lost interest in the odd journey of Etta--who sets off on a trek across Canada for seemingly no good reason--and the reaction of Otto and Russell. Otto is her husband and he calmly stays at home where her learns to cook and bake from Etta's recipe box and then begins to make paper sculptures. Russell is Otto's best friend and adopted brother, and from flashbacks it seems like he may have once had a serious crush on Etta. Indeed, he goes off looking for her, but then rather than bringing her to safely he goes off on a journey of his own, to the frozen north. As for James--well he is a talking coyote who accompanies Etta. I could not relate to the way