A review by normofthenorthfan1
Wonder by R.J. Palacio

challenging emotional hopeful tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

i will say i love this book with my heart when i got bullied as a kid, but on relfection and re-read the fact that auggies pov doesn't really feel like it's him sometimes, and rather the author googled how disabled people deal with mental health and just went off some dotpoints, like some sort of ghost writer in a sense??. they also don't mention auggies conditon IN THE BOOK, which i feel like would be way more impactful because it gives kids that actual example instead of 'mysterious mishapen face condition' this book is not inherently bad, but i really think that the amount of people reading it and taking the message at face value with no questioning into the ethics of how society hates the word 'disabled' and why ableds tend to treat disableds as spectacle is very much possible to explore well enough in childrens literature. children are more intelligent than people give them credit for. but i guess using disabled people as an example, rather than them being thier own people, is one of the biggger problems in this book which is probably made obvious by the other reviews.
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