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A review by jackiehorne
This is All: The Pillow Book of Cordelia Kenn by Aidan Chambers
5.0
With the exception of the kidnapping thread and the final Pillow Box (why, why WHY, Aidan Chambers, did you feel the need to kill off your main character???), an amazing, thought-provoking, killingly honest exploration of late adolescence and the meaning of romantic love. Some might argue that Cordelia does not sound like a teenager, and she doesn't, at least not like the average teenager. But Chambers has always written for a small audience -- the intellectually-inclined teen and adult -- and as a heroine for such an audience, Cordelia is all that is convincing.
It's rare that a book makes you want to be a better person, but passages in Chambers make me want to strive to be more than I am — a better writer, a more compassionate human being.
I didn't realize that several of Chambers' books were part of a sequence. Will have to go back and read the sequence in order. Perhaps NIK will make more sense when read as part of a sequence...
It's rare that a book makes you want to be a better person, but passages in Chambers make me want to strive to be more than I am — a better writer, a more compassionate human being.
I didn't realize that several of Chambers' books were part of a sequence. Will have to go back and read the sequence in order. Perhaps NIK will make more sense when read as part of a sequence...