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A review by sarahbowling6608
Echo Mountain by Lauren Wolk
4.0
This was very close to a 5⭐️ book. It tugs all the heartstrings. It captures so many of the nuances of human emotion—good and bad. It was gripping from start to finish.
My only hesitation is that Ellie is often straight up defiant and ends up being right. I can see the beauty in the way her relationship with her mother stretches and changes throughout the book but that’s through my adult perspective. Her disobedience works out in the book, but she did a lot of dangerous things that could have ended very differently in a not-storybook world and I would be loath to encourage that attitude in my own kids.
CC: disobedience, infected wounds in detail, a bit of mystical “feeling” around the art of natural healing, some people think there’s a hag/witch, death/grief and the ugliness that often comes with grief, dad in coma
My only hesitation is that Ellie is often straight up defiant and ends up being right. I can see the beauty in the way her relationship with her mother stretches and changes throughout the book but that’s through my adult perspective. Her disobedience works out in the book, but she did a lot of dangerous things that could have ended very differently in a not-storybook world and I would be loath to encourage that attitude in my own kids.
CC: disobedience, infected wounds in detail, a bit of mystical “feeling” around the art of natural healing, some people think there’s a hag/witch, death/grief and the ugliness that often comes with grief, dad in coma