Review: #833
Title: The Fourteenth Summer of Angus Jack
Series: N/A
Author: Jen Storer
Comments: We following the siblings Angus and Martha who has to move yet again, into a smaller beachside town in Australia. What starts off as a normal (if resentful) life eventually turns into a supernatural one. It easily takes one-third of the novel before the fantasy stuff starts happening and up until that point, it can be a little bit of a slog. The author teases things with odd neighbours moving in, and the siblings interacting with characters with unique personalities. The story seems to set up more plot points than it knows what to do with and when all is said and done, you can’t help but feel it wasn’t that some of those plot points didn’t develop enough to provide a satisfying conclusion. Once the siblings get into trouble, a lot of nice concepts are introduced but unfortunately, we never get a clear idea on how this whole parallel world thing works. Despite that, the events were engaging but the shoehorned obligatory romance towards the end is awkward and shallow.
Rating: 6.5/10