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A review by saschadarlington
Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby
3.0
3 1/2
I feel like I should highly recommend Nicole Melleby’s Hurricane Season and tell you that it’s an important middle grade novel that deals with mental illness and its ramifications for an eleven-year-old girl and her famous composer father. Because certain sequences put me on edge and by the end of the novel I realized that I didn’t actually like any of the characters, I can’t offer a wildly glowing review.
As I mull the events over, I guess one thing that bothers me is that Fig’s father didn’t become ill overnight. Events seem to happen in a vacuum. Doesn’t Fig have grandparents on either side? Sure, maybe her mother couldn’t live with her father, but why would she leave Fig with him? All the neighbors ignore the father’s behavior. People talk about it. Gossip about it. But no one worries about Fig. No one does the right thing. Only one concerned teacher involves herself.
read more: http://saschadarlington.me/2019/05/02/review-of-hurricane-season/
I feel like I should highly recommend Nicole Melleby’s Hurricane Season and tell you that it’s an important middle grade novel that deals with mental illness and its ramifications for an eleven-year-old girl and her famous composer father. Because certain sequences put me on edge and by the end of the novel I realized that I didn’t actually like any of the characters, I can’t offer a wildly glowing review.
As I mull the events over, I guess one thing that bothers me is that Fig’s father didn’t become ill overnight. Events seem to happen in a vacuum. Doesn’t Fig have grandparents on either side? Sure, maybe her mother couldn’t live with her father, but why would she leave Fig with him? All the neighbors ignore the father’s behavior. People talk about it. Gossip about it. But no one worries about Fig. No one does the right thing. Only one concerned teacher involves herself.
read more: http://saschadarlington.me/2019/05/02/review-of-hurricane-season/