A review by lazygal
Hurricane Season by Nicole Melleby

3.0

Our view of Fig's world - her life with her erratic, once brilliant musician father and trying to keep things hidden from outsiders - is very clearly told by a sixth-grader. Her questions and fears, friendships and relationships with adults and peers have no moments of "adult" POV sneaking in. We learn what's wrong with her father as she does, and her investigation of how to help is our investigation. Even her perception of one teacher's actions is clearly age-appropriate without a wink to the reader that she's not seeing things properly. That's the good. The "meh" is that the ending feels pre-ordained and there's no surprise.

ARC provided by publisher.