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A review by votesforwomen
Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson
3.0
I....don't exactly know what to think of this book.
It was a historical set in the time of World War I, the story of a girl struggling to recover from the death of her brother during the war.
It was a desperate survival tale of the Dust Bowl and two sisters fighting to make it to the next day.
It was a futuristic tale of a girl preparing to go to help create a colony on Mars.
The three stories wove together in an altogether satisfying way. I think my biggest beef with this book was that it was too short, but somehow, the length was also perfect. I'm not really sure how both those things are true at once. #PARADOXES
I think Catherine's story was my favorite. I loved her, and I loved Beezie, and I felt for their poor mother. The other two were good, but fell a little flatter, at least for me. Again, not sure why.
I'm giving this book 3.5 stars because I don't really know how I feel about it. It was good, it really was. But...I'm just not sure.
CONTENT:
Some kissing. It's implied that a guy and a girl sleep together--pregnancy results, but the actual act is never shown. A couple of uses of the long a-word. Overall, /fairly/ clean?
It was a historical set in the time of World War I, the story of a girl struggling to recover from the death of her brother during the war.
It was a desperate survival tale of the Dust Bowl and two sisters fighting to make it to the next day.
It was a futuristic tale of a girl preparing to go to help create a colony on Mars.
The three stories wove together in an altogether satisfying way. I think my biggest beef with this book was that it was too short, but somehow, the length was also perfect. I'm not really sure how both those things are true at once. #PARADOXES
I think Catherine's story was my favorite. I loved her, and I loved Beezie, and I felt for their poor mother. The other two were good, but fell a little flatter, at least for me. Again, not sure why.
I'm giving this book 3.5 stars because I don't really know how I feel about it. It was good, it really was. But...I'm just not sure.
CONTENT:
Some kissing. It's implied that a guy and a girl sleep together--pregnancy results, but the actual act is never shown. A couple of uses of the long a-word. Overall, /fairly/ clean?