It sounded more like a child recounting an exciting day with their friends at a theme park, highlighting the bits they found fun regardless of whether it contributed to the overall readers' understanding of their day, rather than an author creating a novel with every word designed to feed the finale. *So many pointless descriptions:* There were so many pointless details, which had no bearing whatsoever on the scene, story, character or anything. Without timing it, I think that must have been 5 minutes total. But, like the rest of the book, it was a punchy series of this was the start, this was the next, now we're the end. *Plot interest* In the last chapters, motive is revealed. It ended up being a long series of statements, but nothing especially probing. Perhaps that's "punchy", but I just felt it didn't work. *Character development*: the author tries to develop character, but the style seems to be very short sentences and equally short developments. I strongly recommend listening to the audio sample, in case, as it was to me, this is deeply irritating to you. It didn't sound right, and felt like a London accent trying to be geordie. However, she never pronounces her letter t. *Narration*: the accent wasn't geordie, and occasionally twanged posh. I think this was because I didn't really understand why I disliked it so much. Unusually, I never got into this book, finding it tedious at best, and yet I still read to the rather than rather than returning.
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Pham’s artwork is vibrant and appealing." - Kirkus "Capturing the visceral embarrassments of middle school in 1987 Salt Lake City, Shannon’s emotions are vivid and often excruciating. An outstanding follow-up to the first two volumes, and a must for graphic novel collections." - School Library Journal, starred review "Reading this book is like getting a hug from a friend who knows exactly what you’re going through. A graduate of the ArtCenter College of Design in Pasadena, LeUyen lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons. Her own books include The Bear Who Wasn't There and Big Sister, Little Sister. She is the co-creator, along with Shannon Hale, of the bestselling graphic memoirs Real Friends, Best Friends, and Friends Forever. Morris and the bestselling Princess in Black series by Shannon and Dean Hale. LeUyen Pham has illustrated more than one hundred books for children, including the Caldecott Honor book Bear Came Along by Richard T. 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