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A review by roseleaf24
Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner
4.0
Printz Honor 2014
It took me awhile to find my footing in this book, and I'm still a bit unsure as to its category. Alternate reality, I believe, but my head was trying to make it distopia. It did not at all take me long to get pulled in and riveted by this tale of a broken world with a big secret, which breaks everyone in its party. Standish, though, attempts to reveal that secret and crack the facade for good. The characters are strong, the plotting fast, though somewhat confusing as it switches back and forth between present happenings and times in the recent past. The revelations were evenly dispersed, though I think I would have liked more dinner for the same of world-building and my confusion that went beyond suspense.
It took me awhile to find my footing in this book, and I'm still a bit unsure as to its category. Alternate reality, I believe, but my head was trying to make it distopia. It did not at all take me long to get pulled in and riveted by this tale of a broken world with a big secret, which breaks everyone in its party. Standish, though, attempts to reveal that secret and crack the facade for good. The characters are strong, the plotting fast, though somewhat confusing as it switches back and forth between present happenings and times in the recent past. The revelations were evenly dispersed, though I think I would have liked more dinner for the same of world-building and my confusion that went beyond suspense.