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A review by heathero621
Sky Full of Elephants by Cebo Campbell
adventurous
challenging
dark
mysterious
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
One day all of the white people in the US randomly look up to the sky and then start walking to the nearest body of water and drown themselves. The only people left in the US are people of color. Sidney, is a teen that is half black and half white. Her family has all died, so she gets in touch with her biological father, who she has never talked to before. He comes to help her and they go on an adventure together trying to figure out what happened and how they and everyone else are supposed to navigate this new world.
This book had a very interesting premise, but I think that it fell a little flat on the delivery. For more than half of the book it is Sidney and Charlie meeting each other and navigating to Alabama. I think that once they got there it started to pick-up. It really wasn't until towards the end where we finally got some answers about what was going on. I feel like the author could've done so much more with exploring what the US would be like without white people. I would have loved more on the Orange Beach "colony" too. The ending was a bit dramatic for me, although I did appreciate the way Sidney's story ended in the book.
This book had a very interesting premise, but I think that it fell a little flat on the delivery. For more than half of the book it is Sidney and Charlie meeting each other and navigating to Alabama. I think that once they got there it started to pick-up. It really wasn't until towards the end where we finally got some answers about what was going on. I feel like the author could've done so much more with exploring what the US would be like without white people. I would have loved more on the Orange Beach "colony" too. The ending was a bit dramatic for me, although I did appreciate the way Sidney's story ended in the book.