The trouble with middle grade fiction
Jul. 6th, 2022 12:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulyis that unless they're orphans, all the characters have parents, and sometimes reading these books makes me wonder about the author's relationship with their parents.
I already forgot the title of this one, but I spent the entire book wondering if the narration would ever in any way address the fact that the protagonist's mother does not like her. It did not. It's like the author did not even realize that this is what she wrote! But that woman does not like her daughter. 12 year old character, mother doesn't like her, you'd think this would be a central conflict, with some sort of resolution! You would be very wrong.
And it's not like it barely showed up in the book. No, that woman is constantly there, disliking her daughter and everything she does.
It's just as well that I forgot the title. I wasn't likely to recommend it to anybody. This book was not about the one thing it ought to have been about.
I already forgot the title of this one, but I spent the entire book wondering if the narration would ever in any way address the fact that the protagonist's mother does not like her. It did not. It's like the author did not even realize that this is what she wrote! But that woman does not like her daughter. 12 year old character, mother doesn't like her, you'd think this would be a central conflict, with some sort of resolution! You would be very wrong.
And it's not like it barely showed up in the book. No, that woman is constantly there, disliking her daughter and everything she does.
It's just as well that I forgot the title. I wasn't likely to recommend it to anybody. This book was not about the one thing it ought to have been about.
