Neununddreißig
Book Title: "Holundermond"
Author: Jutta Wilke
Page Count: 316
First Published: 2011
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood
This book is so good that I want to go out, find a 10-year-old girl and give it to her to read, but I think that would be weird. Maybe I'll leave it on the front steps of the school in my neighbourhood instead. Anyway. I kind of want to make a Dan Brown comparison, only because it dealt with the church and a treasure hunt. So ... this book was like Dan Brown if Dan Brown wrote amazing books for children, I guess. 12 year old Nele has to deal with her parents divorce, and because of it hides in her father's van when he drives to Vienna for a job (he does something with culture and art and appraisal but I'm not sure that's a real job so I don't know how to look up the english word for it). There, she stays in the bed&breaksfast of enigmatic, beautiful Viviane and meets Flavio, the son of the owner of a little ice cream parlor in the nearby monastery. He shows her Vienna, and the monastery, and together, they discover that Neles father Jan has not suddenly disappeared for a job, but is missing, and that Flavios history teacher has a sinister plan involving some treasures in the monastery, and there's also time travel, I'm not really doing the plot justice here, but it was so good. The writing was very solid without trying too hard to be literature, the characters were real and you could always sympathize, good and evil weren't too black and white, but not too ambiguous either, it was just a very good book.
Author: Jutta Wilke
Page Count: 316
First Published: 2011
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood
This book is so good that I want to go out, find a 10-year-old girl and give it to her to read, but I think that would be weird. Maybe I'll leave it on the front steps of the school in my neighbourhood instead. Anyway. I kind of want to make a Dan Brown comparison, only because it dealt with the church and a treasure hunt. So ... this book was like Dan Brown if Dan Brown wrote amazing books for children, I guess. 12 year old Nele has to deal with her parents divorce, and because of it hides in her father's van when he drives to Vienna for a job (he does something with culture and art and appraisal but I'm not sure that's a real job so I don't know how to look up the english word for it). There, she stays in the bed&breaksfast of enigmatic, beautiful Viviane and meets Flavio, the son of the owner of a little ice cream parlor in the nearby monastery. He shows her Vienna, and the monastery, and together, they discover that Neles father Jan has not suddenly disappeared for a job, but is missing, and that Flavios history teacher has a sinister plan involving some treasures in the monastery, and there's also time travel, I'm not really doing the plot justice here, but it was so good. The writing was very solid without trying too hard to be literature, the characters were real and you could always sympathize, good and evil weren't too black and white, but not too ambiguous either, it was just a very good book.