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A review by toggle_fow
Running on the Roof of the World by Jess Butterworth
3.0
This book was solid, but not amazing. The story of two kids who flee Chinese-occupied Tibet through the Himalayas to India, Running on the Roof of the World was an interesting and easy read. Sometimes the characters' voices sounded strangely American, vibing weirdly with the Tibetan setting.
To be really good, I would have wanted more detail, and for there to be a whole lot less coincidence involved in the journey. How everything worked out so they just happened to 1) stumble upon the very resistance members the secret message was supposed to go to, 2) encounter the same soldier in the mountains that arrested Tash's parents in the village, 3) have a secret message that was concerned with freeing prisoners JUST BEFORE Tash's parents were arrested, and 4) have Tash's parents walk into the exiled community a month after she arrived there all just combined to seem a little unlikely and contrived.
To be really good, I would have wanted more detail, and for there to be a whole lot less coincidence involved in the journey. How everything worked out so they just happened to 1) stumble upon the very resistance members the secret message was supposed to go to, 2) encounter the same soldier in the mountains that arrested Tash's parents in the village, 3) have a secret message that was concerned with freeing prisoners JUST BEFORE Tash's parents were arrested, and 4) have Tash's parents walk into the exiled community a month after she arrived there all just combined to seem a little unlikely and contrived.