twinmom2017 's review for:

Jelly by Clare Rees

5.0

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Book Blurb:

Martha and her friends have been drifting on a giant killer jellyfish since sea levels rose and the world ended.

Life is gloopy, toxic and full of tentacles. It's also really boring.

More than anything, Martha wants to escape – but what ’s waiting for her on the shore? She doesn’t know it, but life is about to get much stickier …

My Review: 

I’ll start off saying I’m not the target audience of this book as a 30 year old. I believe it is better for teenagers. There is more childish humor than I like. But after all the main characters have to be at least in their teens. Regardless of that!!!

The writing is original. I mean I don’t know how else to describe a book about being trapped on a jellyfish! Even as an adult, this book posed some important questions. 

It also left me asking more. I really didn’t get a sense of time like how long have they been on the jellyfish? Im picturing the majority of the book to take place maybe over a month at most? 

What drew me to the buy the book was the cover and the description. 

While unpacking the book I noticed on the back cover of my book it says “Try it! Read page 8” so i turned to it and almost didn’t put it back down. It was a challenge to put it down. I believe I will be thinking about this book for awhile. It was thought-provoking. 

I want to keep this to reread so I’m off to buy 2 more copies for both of my favorite free libraries.