The Bookish Island's Book Review:
The Boy Who Knew Everything by Victoria Forester
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This is one of the books I read after the passing of Hurricane Maria here in Puerto Rico. With no water, electricity or internet I took to reading my books.
I decided to not do this for the books I've read on 2018. But it has been 6 months since Hurricane Maria. And I'm happy to announce that now we have water, and electricity.
Title - The Boy Who Knew EverythingBy - Victoria Forester
Publication - October 25th 2016 by Square Fish
Copy - Paperback, 416 pages
Genre - Middle Grade, Adventure, Fiction, Fantasy
An epic modern fantasy about an unforgettable friendship.
There is a prophecy.
It speaks of a girl who can fly and a boy who knows everything. The prophecy says that they have the power to bring about great change . . . .
The boy is Conrad Harrington III. The girl is Piper McCloud. They need their talents now, more than ever, if they are to save the world-and themselves.
Victoria Forester does not disappoint in The Boy Who Knew Everything, the long-awaited sequel to New York Times-bestselling The Girl Who Could Fly, which Stephenie Meyer praised as "the oddest/sweetest mix of Little House on the Prairie and X-Men."
The Rating:
My Review:
The day after Hurricane Maria passed by Puerto Rico I was supper stressed and freaked out. And I was very worried about my cat, Yang. Because I had left her behind and went upstairs to safety cause the whole first floor had flooded. I was crying, hysterical and again, freaking out. Both because I felt I failed Yang and my moms bird Juan, for leaving them behind and because I was losing everything that I had.
Mom was frantically trying to get water out of everywhere and taking care of my grandma who was having mini heart attacks and seeing that the neighbors who are mostly older people were okay. And I felt like I was useless because I couldn't do anything. So I read the book I had randomly picked out and cried as I read the book in the middle of the night. I started having a panic attack about Yang being all alone and surrounded by water. No one understood. Especially my grandmother. Her pet was comfy in the corner of the kitchen, dry and warm. While Yang was in an over 5 inches of water house with no place but the sofa to be on. But its not moms house so we couldn't say anything. And she also reassured me that Yang is really smart and she would climb up something higher than the water and be safe. But my mind was set on worrying, so I just cried and cried and by the morning the next day I had read The Girl Who Could Fly. It was my good place. To be in that world with those characters helped me take my mind off reality. So it obviously has a good spot in my heart. And I already had the second book in the series so I read it next and it didn't fail me.
So I totally recommend this book and the first one. They are middle grades but it doesn't feel like a kid story. Its really good.
I started and finished this book on September 30, 2017.
The day after Hurricane Maria passed by Puerto Rico I was supper stressed and freaked out. And I was very worried about my cat, Yang. Because I had left her behind and went upstairs to safety cause the whole first floor had flooded. I was crying, hysterical and again, freaking out. Both because I felt I failed Yang and my moms bird Juan, for leaving them behind and because I was losing everything that I had.
Mom was frantically trying to get water out of everywhere and taking care of my grandma who was having mini heart attacks and seeing that the neighbors who are mostly older people were okay. And I felt like I was useless because I couldn't do anything. So I read the book I had randomly picked out and cried as I read the book in the middle of the night. I started having a panic attack about Yang being all alone and surrounded by water. No one understood. Especially my grandmother. Her pet was comfy in the corner of the kitchen, dry and warm. While Yang was in an over 5 inches of water house with no place but the sofa to be on. But its not moms house so we couldn't say anything. And she also reassured me that Yang is really smart and she would climb up something higher than the water and be safe. But my mind was set on worrying, so I just cried and cried and by the morning the next day I had read The Girl Who Could Fly. It was my good place. To be in that world with those characters helped me take my mind off reality. So it obviously has a good spot in my heart. And I already had the second book in the series so I read it next and it didn't fail me.
So I totally recommend this book and the first one. They are middle grades but it doesn't feel like a kid story. Its really good.
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