A review by aly_bu
The Kite Rider by Geraldine McCaughrean

3.0

This book was required for my class way back in september, but I just got my goodreads account. I like the plotline of the stroy, but I found that it didn't draw me in enough. In the first place, we experience the story from a boy who is supposed to be thirteen, but acts about the age of two most of the time. We are always being swayed by his horribly biased perspective of what's going on. In addition, the character of mipeng was completely frustrating and biased. We were told that Mipeng was supposed to Haoyous friend, but she constantly chastized and hurt him and went behind his back to do things that uprooted all the happy settings in the story. The idea for the book was good, but of all the events that happened, most of them were to rare to happen in such close sequence, and the events themselves almost always had positive outcomes for him. The story was meant to leave readers with a bittersweet feeling, but instead left me feeling as if haoyou never got what he deserved (true unhappiness or punishment). I wish that the stupid Bo character would develope further as well, he was just placed there to add difficulties, which got to be very annoying.