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A review by kittyg
The Night Rainbow by Claire King
3.0
This book was the most recent Book Buddy Box book and I hadn't heard of it before receiving it for my box. I definitely think this has some wonderful elements to it, but for me it felt a little bit predictable and also a bit longer than necessary. I think this would have been an excellent novella, but as a novel it did stretch on for a bit longer than I really felt necessary.
As always, with the BookBuddyBox books, this book had added annotations from Elena with her thoughts and ideas on the story. I really enjoyed seeing her thoughts and if I was rating the service of the Book Buddy Box I would always give it 5*s. However, judging it by the book alone I would give the book a 3*s becuase this one just didn't quite work entirely for me...
This is the story of Pea and Margot. Pea is a young girl with a dead father and a fairly absent, grief-stricken and heavily pregnant mother. Her sister Margot and she run wild in the meadows of their farm and they meet strangers, dogs and have all sorts of adventures. Alongside the fun and dangers of being outside all day, they have to deal with the adults around them grieving, overlooking them, and being angry. This truly is a sad little tale of a young child not knowing what to do to help her mother, and a mother not knowing how to cope.
I think the language in some sections of this book and the themes it tried to tackle are all great. I wish it had been a shorter story as it moved pretty slow for my liking and I did see some things coming early on, but as a novel it was definitely an engaging story and one I liked in the end. 3*s from me :)
As always, with the BookBuddyBox books, this book had added annotations from Elena with her thoughts and ideas on the story. I really enjoyed seeing her thoughts and if I was rating the service of the Book Buddy Box I would always give it 5*s. However, judging it by the book alone I would give the book a 3*s becuase this one just didn't quite work entirely for me...
This is the story of Pea and Margot. Pea is a young girl with a dead father and a fairly absent, grief-stricken and heavily pregnant mother. Her sister Margot and she run wild in the meadows of their farm and they meet strangers, dogs and have all sorts of adventures. Alongside the fun and dangers of being outside all day, they have to deal with the adults around them grieving, overlooking them, and being angry. This truly is a sad little tale of a young child not knowing what to do to help her mother, and a mother not knowing how to cope.
I think the language in some sections of this book and the themes it tried to tackle are all great. I wish it had been a shorter story as it moved pretty slow for my liking and I did see some things coming early on, but as a novel it was definitely an engaging story and one I liked in the end. 3*s from me :)