Unstoppable Octobia May
by:
Sharon Flake (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780545609609 (0545609607)
Pages no: 288
Edition language: English
Girl detective attempts to prove one of her aunt's tenants is a vampire. Cute story with unreliable narrator, right? Only this charming tale is overlaid on 1950's black America. Octobia is considered by all the adults around her to have an over active imagination. And by some of them to also not k...
Natasha read it and loved it and passed it on to me. And I'm glad she did. It took me a little while to get used to Octobia's voice: her sentences are often short, and given her fantastic imagination it can sometimes be a challenge to figure out what she's saying. But those are smallish quibbles abo...
I will admit that my high hopes going into the reading may have a factor as to why I am so disappointed with "Unstoppable Octobia May." Pros: Octobia and the rest of the characters were a kick and a half. I actually enjoyed seeing life through Octobia May, for the most part. The diversity and subjec...
3.5I really liked so much about this book and yet some parts towards the ending just didn't sit right. Goods deeds in the past don't always outweigh bad in the future--to say more would be a spoiler but I'd be curious how others thought about it.
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