Lin's Perspective

The cover is simply gorgeous!

Eliot is a 12-year-old girl struggling with the sudden death of her beloved grandmother. While she is learning how to cope with this Eliot goes on an adventure of a life-time that teaches her so much more about life and herself that she could have imagined.

This is not just a middle-grade fantasy book, this is a story that has so many layers to it for younger and older audiences.

Although I did enjoy most of the book, I had some issues with the whole queer bit subtly put in there. This is a book that targets the younger generation and as you can see the age of our main character is 12 I don’t think we should be subjecting children to the idea of sexuality at such a young age and personally it made me uncomfortable because it felt like imposing the idea on the person reading it. Let them children be children, whatever they choose to do later on in their life should be up to them whether they like one gender more than the other it should not have any place in a juvenile book. When I was 12 up until 14/15 all I cared about and my peers was playing outside, hide and seek, and playing with my Barbies or Monopoly surely my concern was not my sexuality because I was left to be a child and enjoy my childhood as one should. Anyway, there was not anything explicit per se, however, it was enough to bother me and for me to notice.

Apart from this, I did enjoy the rest of the book, I would still recommend it the messages were really meaningful and could help if one is going through grief and is struggling to accept and move on. The whole world and idea behind it were very much appreciated by me 🙂