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The Midnight Zoo
by Sonya Hartnett
Three children traveling across war-ravaged Europe stumble across a tiny zoo in a small bombed out town. When Andrej, Thomas and their baby sister Wilma seek shelter in the zoo for the night they discover that the animals can talk and the children and the animals exchange their sad stories as bombs fall in the night.
I love Sonya Hartnett - her books have a very lyrical, fairy-tale quality to them. This one is no different. Unlike "The Ghost's Child," however, this story is harder to follow in the end. The events have an unreality about them from the very beginning which I was willing to buy into because I liked the characters, description and general feel of the book. The end completely falls apart though and I was left confused and repeatedly re-reading the last chapter to try to figure out what happened. I still have no idea. With a different ending, any ending!, I would have given this book 4 stars.
I love Sonya Hartnett - her books have a very lyrical, fairy-tale quality to them. This one is no different. Unlike "The Ghost's Child," however, this story is harder to follow in the end. The events have an unreality about them from the very beginning which I was willing to buy into because I liked the characters, description and general feel of the book. The end completely falls apart though and I was left confused and repeatedly re-reading the last chapter to try to figure out what happened. I still have no idea. With a different ending, any ending!, I would have given this book 4 stars.