Kirsten's review of I Am the Messenger
I Am the Messenger by Markus Zusak
Kirsten's review
rating:
bookshelves:
fiction,
from-library,
read-pre-12-07
status:
Read in August, 2007
After reading The Book Thief and loving it, I was curious about I Am the Messenger. It's not as brilliant as The Book Thief, but it's a good read nonetheless.
Ed Kennedy is 19 and basically isn't doing a whole lot with his life. He has an elderly, smelly dog named the Doorman, he drives a cab, and he gets together with his friends a few nights a week to play cards. He's in love with Audrey, his best friend, but can't tell her. This all begins to change when Ed foils a completely inept attempt at bank robbery. Soon afterward, he receives a playing card in the mail with three addresses written on it. At each address, there is a problem to be solved, an intervention to be made, and thus begin the strangest months of Ed's life.
The book could be a sappy one, and occasionally it strays into sentimental territory. However, Zusak's unflinching portrayal of life's petty brutalities, as well as his sure sense of the ways that friends (including friends that are dogs) interact with each ot...more
Ed Kennedy is 19 and basically isn't doing a whole lot with his life. He has an elderly, smelly dog named the Doorman, he drives a cab, and he gets together with his friends a few nights a week to play cards. He's in love with Audrey, his best friend, but can't tell her. This all begins to change when Ed foils a completely inept attempt at bank robbery. Soon afterward, he receives a playing card in the mail with three addresses written on it. At each address, there is a problem to be solved, an intervention to be made, and thus begin the strangest months of Ed's life.
The book could be a sappy one, and occasionally it strays into sentimental territory. However, Zusak's unflinching portrayal of life's petty brutalities, as well as his sure sense of the ways that friends (including friends that are dogs) interact with each ot...more
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