Alisa's review
Tangerine by Edward Bloor
This got a little bit better at the end or it would only get 1 star. I really thought I wasn't going to be able to finish it, and that's saying something for a kid's book. ...I just saw somebody another review that refers to the pace as "breakneck" -- I guess, if you're a tortoise with 3 bum legs. Yeesh.
I picked it off the YA shelves, but it's much more middle grades. I felt like this was a 2nd-rate "Holes." The big mystery (that his older brother was a psychopathic jerk, duh) was strung out until the end by the main character periodically looking at some blank piece of suburbia and saying 'there's something I can't quite remember.' Phony.
I picked it off the YA shelves, but it's much more middle grades. I felt like this was a 2nd-rate "Holes." The big mystery (that his older brother was a psychopathic jerk, duh) was strung out until the end by the main character periodically looking at some blank piece of suburbia and saying 'there's something I can't quite remember.' Phony.
