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This is the book that I wanted Among Others to be. I felt much more connected to Hazel and her literary touchstones and her troubles with reality.

It is a lovely book, with a lot of beauty, and also sly wit and reflection on fairy tales. When Hazel says her name is "Anderson", a character comments that they get a lot of those in The Woods. And the Snow Queen offers Jack some Turkish Delight and laughs at her own joke. And there are woodcutters and kindly healers and wolves and ice queens and fates, and only some of them are good and useful, even though Hazel is unfailingly polite and often kind. I liked that the magic of fairy tales did not always work perfectly for her.

Hazel is the kind of knight who would rescue a fellow knight, and I love that about her.
"He? Oh." Something passed over the woman's face.
"The princess is saving the knight, eh?"
Hazel shifted. "I guess."
"I hope the knight doesn't mind." She let out a laugh that sounded like it could cut something.

And the very ending was very much like the ending of Where The Wild Things Are, when the traveller returns home to a sign of love.

Another reviewer commented on the problematic way the author deals with mental health. Sometimes it's really interesting and descriptive, like describing a depressed woman as "looking like someone had severed her daemon". And sometimes it's casually judgemental and cruel. There are a lot of hard things in the real world of this book. Hazel's parents are recently divorced, and Hazel is an adoptee with no grounding or understanding of her birth family. Jack has his own problems, too. But that is not the core of Jack-and-Hazel. They are a pair, not in a romantic sense, but in a best-friends sense.

The art included was well-calculated to display well on Kindle screens, as it is just simple pencil drawings, but with a lot of emotional depth.

Read if: You want more immediate cultural touchstones than Among Others had. You love fairy tale twistings. You want the lady knight to be the hero.

Skip if: You don't read mid-grade books. You have trouble with slighting descriptions of mental illness.

Also read:
Among Others
The Woodcutter
A Long; Long Sleep (0)


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Breadcrumbs Anne Ursu Erin McGuire 9780062015051 Books Reviews

The author's odd and almost stalker like fixation on the Minnesota Twins baseball team made this book weird for my son. I get it, the author likes the Twins. But the extent that she tries to crowbar Twins players into the story, it is just distracting. My son finally asked why so and so kept being mentioned and he is 8 - just weird. I would not recommend this book for others.
Yes, this book is beautifully written (especially the descriptions of snow at the beginning), but the intended "middle grade" audience may have some trouble with it. The main characters are in 5th grade, which will make some older kids turn their noses up at the book. Yet it makes references to such a wide range of fantasy/sci-fi books, that it seems to expect an experienced older reader. I'm a middle school reading specialist who has been reading these genres for over twenty years, and I'm still not sure I got all the references.

The other main problem is the genre hiccup. As some other reviewers have noted, the first part of the book is a sweet, realistic fiction coming of age story. Then, all of a sudden, a random, unexplained, trouble making creature breaks a mirror which falls to Earth changing things in a dark and highly random way. What follows is a series of fantasy riffs which don't really hang together as a coherent story. Characters are introduced and dropped without a strong through line.

I also take issue with the ending. I don't like it when everything is tied up in a painfully neat bow, but I appreciate some resolution. I got to the end of the book, and kept flipping pages thinking, Really? This is where you're going to stop?

Overall, this would be a good snow-day read for a well versed fantasy/sci-fi fan who doesn't mind a lack of closure.
This book has both a male and female protagonist, but most of the writing is coming from the female protagonist point of view. This has a lovely blending of folklore, but I don't know how many younger readers would catch it. As an adult, I was fun to read the old fables sprinkled throughout the story. The antagonist reminded me of Narnia's white witch, which the author made a nod to, which I also appreciated.

The backbone of the story is a relationship of two friends and how that relationship can evolve through time - and that's it's okay to have a relationship change. Great theme.

Also, the characters had a bit of gritty-ness to their back story. But, not too much. I think a middle-reader likes to have a bit of grit, but not so much it takes the shine out of the story. Good plot. Good flow. Nice book!
Midway through the book the plot falls apart. None of the character development progresses, and most of all nothing changes for the lives of the characters. It felt like a pointless read that started off strong. I expected some of her issues with the divorce to resolve, as well as her friendship. Instead it just... ended. It had so many plot holes. I didn't feel the ending message was good for kids.
This is a story about Hazel--an imaginative, effervescent adoptee--whom only feels like she truly only fits in with her best friend Jack. Peppered with homage to other children's tales--from both classic and modern arena--this is a charming, clever, if bittersweet read. Readers tag along as Hazel struggles to find Jack while battling inner struggles with identity (belonging to community) and what it means to "grow up." Much like Gaiman's Coraline, Hazel realizes that true courage means doing what's right, even if means facing fear and danger. Much like other fictional heroines, she also faces situations where she has to choose between easier "wrongs" and harder "rights." This is a tale that anybody that has felt like an outsider may identify with and enjoy.
This is the book that I wanted Among Others to be. I felt much more connected to Hazel and her literary touchstones and her troubles with reality.

It is a lovely book, with a lot of beauty, and also sly wit and reflection on fairy tales. When Hazel says her name is "Anderson", a character comments that they get a lot of those in The Woods. And the Snow Queen offers Jack some Turkish Delight and laughs at her own joke. And there are woodcutters and kindly healers and wolves and ice queens and fates, and only some of them are good and useful, even though Hazel is unfailingly polite and often kind. I liked that the magic of fairy tales did not always work perfectly for her.

Hazel is the kind of knight who would rescue a fellow knight, and I love that about her.
"He? Oh." Something passed over the woman's face.
"The princess is saving the knight, eh?"
Hazel shifted. "I guess."
"I hope the knight doesn't mind." She let out a laugh that sounded like it could cut something.

And the very ending was very much like the ending of Where The Wild Things Are, when the traveller returns home to a sign of love.

Another reviewer commented on the problematic way the author deals with mental health. Sometimes it's really interesting and descriptive, like describing a depressed woman as "looking like someone had severed her daemon". And sometimes it's casually judgemental and cruel. There are a lot of hard things in the real world of this book. Hazel's parents are recently divorced, and Hazel is an adoptee with no grounding or understanding of her birth family. Jack has his own problems, too. But that is not the core of Jack-and-Hazel. They are a pair, not in a romantic sense, but in a best-friends sense.

The art included was well-calculated to display well on screens, as it is just simple pencil drawings, but with a lot of emotional depth.

Read if You want more immediate cultural touchstones than Among Others had. You love fairy tale twistings. You want the lady knight to be the hero.

Skip if You don't read mid-grade books. You have trouble with slighting descriptions of mental illness.

Also read
Among Others
The Woodcutter
A Long; Long Sleep (0)