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A review by cornerofmadness
Troubling a Star by Madeleine L'Engle
3.0
I found this one at a library sale and since I liked L'Engle's Wrinkle in Time series I picked it up. This one, however, is just plain YA and turns out to be the last in a series. Ah well. It was easy enough to pick up on who was who. Here's the thing though, it was started in the 60s and honestly this had such a 60s feel to the narrative/language. I think it might have been an effort on L'Engle's part to do so because this was written in the 90s nearly 30 years after half the series. It's also mired in the 90s, centering around the issues in the Falkland Islands and the politics of Antarctica's usage.
Vicky Austin is back in her small town, pining a bit for her boyfriend (she's turning 16 and he's 19 in college). Well Adam won't be around as much as she'd like because he is going to Eddington Station in Antarctica named for his Uncle who was lost there. Adam however gets Vicky looking in on his great Aunt Serena and Serena is a woman of means who decides to gift Vicky a trip to Antarctica to be with Adam (III) and the research team.
Of course the readers know this might not go well because every chapter starts in the present with Vicky on an ice floe in Antarctica alone and in danger of freezing to death and all chapters are how she ends up there. She travels with Cook, who works for Aunt Serena (as Adam is already down there). She has letters that suggests Adam II was killed and most of the book is the trip down there and all the aforementioned politics of the Falklands (and South America and post Soviet break up Russian states).
Vicky thinks someone is spying on her. She thinks she might be in danger. Of course this started before she left but she told no adults because this is a YA. It's a quick enough read but nothing that is going to stick with me nor did it make me want to see more of the series. It was good but nothing particularly special.
Vicky Austin is back in her small town, pining a bit for her boyfriend (she's turning 16 and he's 19 in college). Well Adam won't be around as much as she'd like because he is going to Eddington Station in Antarctica named for his Uncle who was lost there. Adam however gets Vicky looking in on his great Aunt Serena and Serena is a woman of means who decides to gift Vicky a trip to Antarctica to be with Adam (III) and the research team.
Of course the readers know this might not go well because every chapter starts in the present with Vicky on an ice floe in Antarctica alone and in danger of freezing to death and all chapters are how she ends up there. She travels with Cook, who works for Aunt Serena (as Adam is already down there). She has letters that suggests Adam II was killed and most of the book is the trip down there and all the aforementioned politics of the Falklands (and South America and post Soviet break up Russian states).
Vicky thinks someone is spying on her. She thinks she might be in danger. Of course this started before she left but she told no adults because this is a YA. It's a quick enough read but nothing that is going to stick with me nor did it make me want to see more of the series. It was good but nothing particularly special.