KSC Book Blab

The Nest

July 21, 2009

By Paul Jennings

Penguin, Ringwood, 2009, 248 p.

Summary:

Robin puts up his hand to support the cause Charlie is raising money for. He offers $500. How is he going to get that. He sells one of the 2 momentoes he has of his mother. She ran away when Robin was little. His father blames him. Robin is always imagining himself doing something horrific. Robin lives with his dad in a ski resort village where his father repairs things. Charlie misinterprets something he does and isn’t speaking to him, his father is hiding something and Verushka is using him for her own reasons. Robin uses the stories he writes to helps his mind understand what is going on.

Comment:

Great use of the stories Robin writes interspersed amongst the plot. I wasn’t sure when I began the book how scarey it would become. To begin the book with an image of Robin imagining his father falling into an icy pit was pretty chilling. The story unfolds in a much more gentle fashion than I imagined. I love the ending story of the frog and the princess.

 Rating : 6.5/10

Mrs B

Entry Filed under: Growing Up, Mystery. Tags: Crime, Mystery.