The Spell Book of Jaclyn MoriartyYoung Adult, 2007
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The Zing family lives in a world of misguided spell books, singular poetry, and state-of-the-art surveillance equipment. They use these things to protect the Zing Family Secret -- one so huge it draws the family to the garden shed for meetings every Friday night. Into their world comes socially isolated middle grader Listen Taylor, whose father is dating a Zing. Enter Cath Murphy, a young teacher at the elementary school that Cassie Zing attends, suffering from a broken heart. How will the worlds of these two young woman connect?
Trackgeek: A couple of things that were weird about this book: The book didn't flow at all- the author moved so often between different character's viewpoints, carrying one to a particular time and then switching and going back several months and telling the parallel story not to mention the flashbacks to things that happened farther back in the past, to the point that you get lost and frustrated very easily. My other problem with this book is that all of the adults either have affairs or contemplate having an affair, which in my mind is pretty ridiculous. What I did enjoy was the the characters. They were interesting and diverse.
Graded a C.
1 comments:
Though I read your review, I would still like to read this book. The subjects that bothered you, I'm a little more open minded about. Not that I cheat, just open to reading the subject without bias.
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