Book Review:
Boo by Neil Smith
Spoilers?
None.
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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 read this one on November 28, 2017. 70 days after.
Title - BooBy - Neil Smith
Publication - May 12th 2015 by Vintage
Copy - ARC Copy, 310 pages
Genre - Young Adult, Fantasy, Mystery
* Winner of the Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction.
* Nominated for the Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award.
* Nominated for the Sunburst Award.
* Nominated for the Alex Award.
* Longlisted for the Prix des libraires du Québec.
From Neil Smith, author of the award-winning, internationally acclaimed story collection Bang Crunch, comes a dark but whimsical debut novel about starting over in the afterlife in the vein of Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones.
When Oliver "Boo" Dalrymple wakes up in heaven, the eighth-grade science geek thinks he died of a heart defect at his school. But soon after arriving in this hereafter reserved for dead thirteen-year-olds, Boo discovers he’s a 'gommer', a kid who was murdered. What’s more, his killer may also be in heaven. With help from the volatile Johnny, a classmate killed at the same school, Boo sets out to track down the mysterious Gunboy who cut short both their lives.
In a heartrending story written to his beloved parents, the odd but endearing Boo relates his astonishing heavenly adventures as he tests the limits of friendship, learns about forgiveness and, finally, makes peace with the boy he once was and the boy he can now be.
The Cover:
The Story:
After a school shooting Boo wakes up in a new place where he is among other children who have died and woken up there too. Now he has to live there with the possibility that the other kid who shoot him was there too.
Overall:
I got this book a long time ago and I really thought I was going to enjoy reading it too. But even though trough the first reading I went to 100 pages, I didn't like it. I don't know if it was the characters I couldn't relate too, or the story I couldn't follow but after those 100 pages I stopped reading.
Since Hurricane Maria I decided to read all those books I had been holding up on reading so I took this book and picked it up to finish up. Now that I have I can say that I didn't like it. It just wasn't my type of book.
The story of Boo was an interesting one but I can't say I liked it all.
Although they say never judge a book by it's cover I believe the cover should represent what the book is going to be like or at least some aspect of it.The cover of the green chalkboard locker and the chalk lettering is very distinct and very reminiscent of school. But what does stand out is the pair of eyes on the locker vents.
The Story:
After a school shooting Boo wakes up in a new place where he is among other children who have died and woken up there too. Now he has to live there with the possibility that the other kid who shoot him was there too.
Overall:
I got this book a long time ago and I really thought I was going to enjoy reading it too. But even though trough the first reading I went to 100 pages, I didn't like it. I don't know if it was the characters I couldn't relate too, or the story I couldn't follow but after those 100 pages I stopped reading.
Since Hurricane Maria I decided to read all those books I had been holding up on reading so I took this book and picked it up to finish up. Now that I have I can say that I didn't like it. It just wasn't my type of book.
The story of Boo was an interesting one but I can't say I liked it all.
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