The YA genre has not stopped surprising me. Everytime I crack a YA book I have a fear deep down inside that it'll be so childish I'll cringe. While there certainly have been a few like that most are not and this falls in the latter category.
Henry's biggest feat here, in my opinion, is Cheyenne's blindess. Everything that she went through is suspenseful. Add in blindness and it throws it all right through the roof. I kept think, in almost every single situation, how scared I'd be if it was me. And I can see. Then I thought about me going through such and such - BLIND. I couldn't imagine it.
This is very much one of those books you have to stop yourself from flipping forward in. I wanted so much to just know it was all going to be okay but I forced myself to not do that.
I'm very much looking forward to another book by April Henry and I must also say that I loved the rest of the characters. Even the unlikable characters were thought up beautifully. Roy and his cohorts were great and Griffin's characters couldn't have been more perfect.
The only thing I didn't like was a little thing on the cover. The actual cover itself - awesome. I love the girl with the hands over her eyes and I love how a little sliver of space can be seen through fingers. What I don't like is the "Please let me go, I won't tell!" on the top of the front cover. That just screams "kiddie" to me and it struck me as just really not being needed. Subtleness goes a long way with something like this and I think with that removed the cover will be much more hard-hitting.
Henry's biggest feat here, in my opinion, is Cheyenne's blindess. Everything that she went through is suspenseful. Add in blindness and it throws it all right through the roof. I kept think, in almost every single situation, how scared I'd be if it was me. And I can see. Then I thought about me going through such and such - BLIND. I couldn't imagine it.
This is very much one of those books you have to stop yourself from flipping forward in. I wanted so much to just know it was all going to be okay but I forced myself to not do that.
I'm very much looking forward to another book by April Henry and I must also say that I loved the rest of the characters. Even the unlikable characters were thought up beautifully. Roy and his cohorts were great and Griffin's characters couldn't have been more perfect.
The only thing I didn't like was a little thing on the cover. The actual cover itself - awesome. I love the girl with the hands over her eyes and I love how a little sliver of space can be seen through fingers. What I don't like is the "Please let me go, I won't tell!" on the top of the front cover. That just screams "kiddie" to me and it struck me as just really not being needed. Subtleness goes a long way with something like this and I think with that removed the cover will be much more hard-hitting.
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