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A review by egg_gremlin
No Passengers Beyond This Point by Gennifer Choldenko
5.0
There are certain book that I interpret differently each time I read them, as if I understand it on a deeper level every revisit. This is one of those books.
Starting out normally enough, No Passengers Beyond This Point looks at first to be telling a fairly mundane story of three children forced to move across the country due to financial troubles. Finn, India, and Mouse must board a plane to their uncles house in Denver all by themselves while their mother finishes work. However, when the plane lands, they're not in Denver, but a strange city called Falling Bird. At first it seems like a paradise, but suspicious complexities lie just beneath the surface.
I loved the alternating perspectives of the book. Each character views the word an entirely different way, and has a unique voice. Viewing the word through three pairs of eyes fleshes out the setting, and no character knows the whole picture. In every rereading I seem to find new metaphors in how Falling bird is set up.
Really, my only complaint is that Mouse doesn't get more chapters. Her point of view is one I don;t often see in fiction. She has the logic of a genius, and the mind of a child. Finn and India are very good characters as well, but worried 12-year-old and misguided teenager are archetypes I've seen plenty of before.
Starting out normally enough, No Passengers Beyond This Point looks at first to be telling a fairly mundane story of three children forced to move across the country due to financial troubles. Finn, India, and Mouse must board a plane to their uncles house in Denver all by themselves while their mother finishes work. However, when the plane lands, they're not in Denver, but a strange city called Falling Bird. At first it seems like a paradise, but suspicious complexities lie just beneath the surface.
I loved the alternating perspectives of the book. Each character views the word an entirely different way, and has a unique voice. Viewing the word through three pairs of eyes fleshes out the setting, and no character knows the whole picture. In every rereading I seem to find new metaphors in how Falling bird is set up.
Really, my only complaint is that Mouse doesn't get more chapters. Her point of view is one I don;t often see in fiction. She has the logic of a genius, and the mind of a child. Finn and India are very good characters as well, but worried 12-year-old and misguided teenager are archetypes I've seen plenty of before.