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sophia_sol) wrote2021-08-31 07:19 pm
sophia_sol) wrote2021-08-31 07:19 pm
The Girl from the Sea, by Molly Knox Ostertag
Hellooooo, I return with another book review after a too-long silence, I was away on vacation and spent all my downtime reading fanfiction instead of any of the books I brought with me, oops!
Also, welcome to my new followers who found me throughsuperborb's "interesting people to subscribe to" post!
Anyway today I finally read another book! Maybe I'll do some more of that again! The Girl from the Sea is a graphic novel featuring a teen girl, Morgan, who wants to keep the various parts of her life separate: her family, her friends, the fact that she's a lesbian. She's unhappy but she has a plan for when she can be happy, some vague time in the future. Then she meets a selkie girl and all her plans are upended.
Keltie, the selkie, doesn't quite understand Morgan (or humans!) but she loves Morgan, and also has a very important goal while on land: to save Keltie's family.
It's a sweet and touching story, and I like how important Morgan's friends and family are in her life as well as her new romance, but I feel ultimately that the ending wasn't satisfying. It felt a little abrupt and like it hadn't done a sufficient job of creating space for the emotions of all three threads of things that are important to Morgan. I also felt like I wasn't shown enough of what Morgan found appealing about Keltie -- or about her friends, tbh, who she keeps herself so distant from for most of the story. And the issue with the threat to Keltie's family feels like it's dealt with way too easily!
Idk. Overall a good book for teens to have available, as I think the issues it's focusing on are ones that are important to the teen experience, but not quite as much a book for me as I was hoping.
Also, welcome to my new followers who found me through
superborb's "interesting people to subscribe to" post!Anyway today I finally read another book! Maybe I'll do some more of that again! The Girl from the Sea is a graphic novel featuring a teen girl, Morgan, who wants to keep the various parts of her life separate: her family, her friends, the fact that she's a lesbian. She's unhappy but she has a plan for when she can be happy, some vague time in the future. Then she meets a selkie girl and all her plans are upended.
Keltie, the selkie, doesn't quite understand Morgan (or humans!) but she loves Morgan, and also has a very important goal while on land: to save Keltie's family.
It's a sweet and touching story, and I like how important Morgan's friends and family are in her life as well as her new romance, but I feel ultimately that the ending wasn't satisfying. It felt a little abrupt and like it hadn't done a sufficient job of creating space for the emotions of all three threads of things that are important to Morgan. I also felt like I wasn't shown enough of what Morgan found appealing about Keltie -- or about her friends, tbh, who she keeps herself so distant from for most of the story. And the issue with the threat to Keltie's family feels like it's dealt with way too easily!
Idk. Overall a good book for teens to have available, as I think the issues it's focusing on are ones that are important to the teen experience, but not quite as much a book for me as I was hoping.
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I will read anything at all with a selkie, even if it’s middling, so thanks for the introduction!
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