Thank you to NetGalley and Harper Collins Children's Books for giving me an advanced copy. All thoughts and opinions are my own!
DNF at 15%. I wanted to like this book. I love a good MG adventure, especially one with a diverse cast of characters. I actually requested it because I'm hoping to write one of my own one day. But I got to chapter 8 and had to let it go. The writing was too fast and melodramatic to me. Even more frustrating is that I like high emotions and melodrama but those moments are just cut too short and we're rushed off to the next thing. I didn't feel like I had a moment to breathe and absorb.
At 15% of the book, I have no idea who Arthur is as a character other than he's observant and he loves his family. I had no real attachments to him or what happened to him. Which is a shame because there's great potential here.
TW: Brief child endangerment.
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