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A review by b00kh0arder
Storm by Nicola Skinner
5.0
What happens to strong emotions when you're not allowed to feel them?
Frankie Ripley was born on a beach in the middle of a storm (because her rather impractical parents didn't think to bring anything they might need, y'know, like a car or a phone) and it seems like she's been raging ever since. (Though, honestly, can you balme her?) Then Frankie, her family and whole twon are wiped out in a freak natural disaster, and her ghost is left stuck at their home, waiting for her family to return. 100 years later, the cottage is turned into a visitor atttaction and she's stuck with strangers gawping at and traipsing through her home. Is it any wonder then she becomes a poltergheist? All her life Frankie had been told to smother her anger, to calm down, unallowed to feel or explore it. Now here's the perfect opportunity, but she's unaware it's put her in danger.
I liked Bloom but I REALLY loved Storm! An incredibly moving and funny book full of ghosts, that touches lightly and skillfully on for some some what might be some dark and uncomfortable subjects, that's just as beautifully illustrated inside as it is out.
Highly recommend.
(Also, do read this excellent article from the author on why literature needs more angry girls: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/childrens-books-angry-girls-storm-little-women-malory-towers-a9400241.html)
Frankie Ripley was born on a beach in the middle of a storm (because her rather impractical parents didn't think to bring anything they might need, y'know, like a car or a phone) and it seems like she's been raging ever since. (Though, honestly, can you balme her?) Then Frankie, her family and whole twon are wiped out in a freak natural disaster, and her ghost is left stuck at their home, waiting for her family to return. 100 years later, the cottage is turned into a visitor atttaction and she's stuck with strangers gawping at and traipsing through her home. Is it any wonder then she becomes a poltergheist? All her life Frankie had been told to smother her anger, to calm down, unallowed to feel or explore it. Now here's the perfect opportunity, but she's unaware it's put her in danger.
I liked Bloom but I REALLY loved Storm! An incredibly moving and funny book full of ghosts, that touches lightly and skillfully on for some some what might be some dark and uncomfortable subjects, that's just as beautifully illustrated inside as it is out.
Highly recommend.
(Also, do read this excellent article from the author on why literature needs more angry girls: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/childrens-books-angry-girls-storm-little-women-malory-towers-a9400241.html)