Good morning! First, a happy new year to our Jewish faculty, staff, and students! Today will be a two-fer of a book I didn't care for and a book I really loved! Let's start with the one I really didn't like.
I am usually a fan of the odd, weird, and strange. So a coming of age story that blends with an alien abduction story sounded great, which I was I put this on last year's order. Over the past few months, I've started, stopped, restarted, and tried again, but I simply could NOT get into this. This weekend my son biked the Tour de Lyme (26 miles!), so I had a lot of time to kill. This was one of the 2 books I brought. I finally gave up for good about 1/2 of the way in.
Liv is a high school senior in a small town. Her father was one of the school's English teachers and drama/theater advisor. A few years ago he disappeared, then reappeared naked and crazed on the main road. Claiming he had been abducted by aliens, he descends into madness in an effort to trap said aliens. He is fired from his teaching job and then disappears again.
Another teen, Doug, whom I'd call a survivalist had been Liv's father's understudy in trying to trap the aliens, but Liv has had enough pretending to be nice and keep trying. OF COURSE the day she decides to tell Doug off, they catch one.
I couldn't keep going. I honestly felt no sympathy for Liv, no empathy for Doug, no hope for her father.
Now, what does not interest me enough to keep reading doesn't mean it won't interest you. This will still be part of our collection and available to check out.
Stay tuned for the next review.
Remember that all opinions expressed on this blog and the video version of it, are solely those of Mrs. W.
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