Welcome to Litsy!

A low pick, but still solid. James talks Sammy into helping him search for their father, or for information about him. We learn about the brothers six years after their arrival on their Gram‘s doorstep.

Second completion of #24B4Monday

1.5/5⭐ Hard to believe it's the same author who wrote the masterpiece A Solitary Blue. James is a whiny emo inconsistent uncommunicative teenager, which sounds accurate but Voigt's other teenage characters seemed authentic without being irritating to the max.

I forced myself through Bullet's racism in The Runner because at least Voigt attempted to deal with that issue, but I'm not doing it again with James' unchallenged fatphobia & misogyny.

Light shone from a blue sky that wasn‘t dark at all, just deep, pale blue. Light glowed over the land. It was almost as if it was the earth giving off the light, the air was so full of soft brightness. Sammy felt at home in spring—his whole body felt like one of those sprouts, swelling up & pushing out to be...whatever he wanted.

Surprisingly, I‘m right on track for my goal of ten hours for #24B4Monday and halfway through the tagged book.

I‘m struggling a bit with this one because I‘ve never liked James, and all his character flaws are bigger here than ever before. I do like Sammy pretty well, and I‘m liking the snapshots of the rest of the family. But it‘s no Homecoming or Dicey‘s Song.