Recommendation – Buy, Borrow or Skip?
If you’re keeping up with the Kardashians – ahem, the Leighs – buy the book. If you want the entire trilogy, but it! If you simply want to enjoy the storyline and the characters, borrow it.
Monthly Archives: April 2016
Night of the Purple Moon review: Gypsy’s Readings & Musings
Comments: With a name like “Toucan Trilogy” and one of the characters constantly being referred to as “Toucan”, I worried that this story would be too young for my tastes. While the characters are supposed to be young, the main character Abby seemed far older than her years, acting as practically a constantly worrying mother to her younger siblings. The story itself was somber, deep, often depressing (definitely not a light pick-me-up pieces), bleak (though it did have an edge of hope to it and strength). It often made me think of Nevil Schute’s On the Beach with the same bleak outlook of a post-apocalyptic world right after the cataclysmic event with the few survivors fighting to stay alive and watching fellow survivors die around them, and the gruesomeness of seeing the dead around them, pulling no punches in the gut-wrenching details. This could have easily turned into a take on Lord of the Flies, but the Castine children came together beyond their years and figured out how to hold onto to and worth together in a community. And it was indeed heartbreaking losing characters as they aged out and died excruciating painful deaths. No one in this felt cardboard or cliche. Everyone felt well-rounded, even the side characters.