I’m way behind on book blogging. Gah. I am afraid I’m never going to catch up … oh wait, I forgot I’m reading a book that I’m not really enjoying so it’s taking me a really long time, which should give me time to catch up on the books that I (mostly) enjoyed. All Cybils…
First, The Storyteller (on audio). I’m a Jodi Picoult fan except for the book she wrote with her daughter — that one, I did not love. This one… it’s YA but not very YA, if you ask me. Yes, Minka was a young girl when the war began and Anya, the parallel story character was also a young girl, and Sage was also fairly young but… this didn’t seem very YA to me. (Updated: Turns out it’s not YA. I ended up with the Picoult book that has the same title as a YA book I reserved. Total confusion ensued. NOT YA, which is good. I’m short a Cybil, which is not good.)
It also was very very depressing, as WWII books can be when they go into great detail about those who were at Auschwitz.
The ending, I saw coming — though knowing Picoult I expected her to try and double back and make it not be the twisted ending that I saw coming. Nope. It was, as I expected. Now I’m left wondering how Sage is going to deal with this for the rest of her life.
Typical Picoult book. If you like her, you’ll like this. If you don’t, then you will not.
There is NO WAY that is YA appropriate. None.
I work at a bookstore…we do NOT have The Storyteller in the YA section. In fact any bookstore I’ve been in the past year has always had it in the Fiction section. Does your library have it shelved in the YA area? You might want to let them know. They might be confused thinking that it is another YA she has written when in fact it is not. This is definitely a categorizing issue with the library.
I’m glad we are all straightened out on what was going on with this book 🙂 Sorry there was confusion at the library!
Yay! I was trying to think of why I didn’t think of it as YA. I mean sex-still YA these days. Holocaust-seems to be YA these days judging from the kids reading lists. (Though I still figured it was a LOT) But, then I realized late last night that…the affair with the funeral director was totally NOT YA.