Would You by Marthe Jocelyn
Read for: Canadian Books Challenge
This book is about a teenage girl whose sister is seriously injured when she is hit by a car and the week immediately following the accident. The book was really short and there really wasn’t much more to it.
I didn’t really like this book. I think it needed more. I think I know what the author was trying do with this novel but it needed more depth, more character development, more time. After reading a book, I like to feel I’ve been entertained or that I learned something or that I gained some new understanding but after reading this one I felt none of that. I don’t want to sound rude but I’m not really sure what the point of this book was. It was well written and if there had been more depth of the characters and the story I could see it being a really good book. As it is though, it just didn’t do anything for me.
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Huh, this one has been on my list, mostly because I love Marthe Jocelyn’s books for very young readers. Which, btw, I do recommend for babies — Eats and Same Same and Over Under especially — bright, contrasting pictures are good for little eyes to follow, and the big, simple font is good for older babies and toddlers when starting to gain an understanding that print means something.
I was hoping her fiction for older kids would be as quality — but it really sounds like it isn’t. Too bad.
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I guess it depends which review you read, Kiirstin. try this one, from the Globe and Mail:
It is difficult to overstate the brilliance of Would You, its dramatic (literally) pacing, its humour, both light and dark, its depth and reach, and its authenticity in terms of characters, situations and emotions, and in the contemplation and actuality of loss.