by Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones
The Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly by P. T. Jones is a cleverly written book for children ages twelve & up. The dialogue has just the right amount of snarkiness.It is well done for the time when teens are not always comfortable with their peers & environment. It has touches of crush/rom...
This works best when the two authors - who use the pen name P.T. Jones when they are writing together - don't try to sound hip or cool or like teens. Because it takes a lot of bravado, I believe, to do that and get away with it, and this felt more like effort, which is a shame because I really lik...
Arc provided by Diamond Book Distributors through Netgalley Release date: November 11 th DNF at 11 or 12 % ..... Instead of saying something along the line of this being a mess, and how much I didn't enjoy it (something that you can probably see by my rating), I am j...
The most memorable thing, to me, about The Floating Boy and the Girl Who Couldn't Fly is that it did a very good job of portraying average kids. Their thoughts and feelings were unusual for an avid reader, because most books portray magnificent and unusual people, old or young, but TFBaTGWCF's kids ...
I received a free copy of this book from the publisher via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review, thank you! I'll be honest with you: I wanted to read the book just because of the intriguing title. Unfortunately the rest of the book was less interesting. The story starts at a birthday party...
Another book which I picked up from the “Read Now” section of NetGalley, I didn’t know what to make of this book even by reading just the summary. Part of me, though, was hoping this book would take on the more ‘whimsical’, metaphorical turn and deliver that kind of atmosphere, with characters that ...
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