Wrong Way Summer by Heidi Lang

 

Ebook previously provided by NetGalley. Thank you.

3/5 stars

Wrong Way Summer is a middle grade novel that follows Claire and her dad and her little brother as they join the hashtag vanlife!

Claire's dad loves stories, even more so since her mum left but this is a new one, a convoluted story about an ancestor, some cows and a princess told while on a mystery road trip in a tatty converted van.

This was a cute story and I liked how Claire developed and learned to appreciate the van but I would have liked a little more depth and for Claire to push for the truth from her dad sooner.

Steff Out x

We Burned So Bright by TJ Klune

 

Ebook with thanks to NetGalley and Tor/Pan Macmillan.

5/5 stars

A slightly belated review since I read this in January but also shockingly ahead of schedule for me considering this isn't released until April.

At 176 pages this is a novella rather than a novel but though short it packs a lot of impact.

The world is ending in a few days. A massive black hole is sucking everything up, most of the planets have been destroyed and once it comes for the moon humanity is done for.

Don and Rodney are an old married couple driving from Maine to Washington State to do something important (and heartbreaking once revealed) before it's too late. On the way they meet a variety of people: crazy bad, crazy good, dangerous crazy and queer kin.

This is a simple book but it has so much emotional depth and characterisation and it is beautiful.

Stef Out x