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Zoë (2000)

by Clay Carmichael(Favorite Author)

3.97 of 5 Votes: 3

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review 1: This is an very well written book with many layers. Wild Things describes a cat? a girl? a boy? a way of life? an uncle? At the surface it is about a girl, Zoe whose mother, a drunk and addict killed herself. She ends up with her uncle she never met who is a sculptor. She pretty much brought herself up with many characters in her life,mostly her mother's stay not too long boyfriends. Her dad was never in the picture. Zoe meets many interesting characters as she slowly has to decide whether to trust and give of herself. There are sections written from the cat's point of view to show how crazy the humans really are. I loved the story, it made you wonder and cry and love all the characters. It's pretty sophisticated though for 6th graders. I would suggest for a bit ... moreolder and those that like a story about quirky characters, not a lot of action.
review 2: Zoë, an eleven year old girl, was left mostly on her own as a child. Her mother was sick and irresponsible and her dad left before she was born. She trust no one and after her mother dies, she goes to live with her Uncle Henry. He was once a famous heart doctor but is now an artist and sculptor. She’s worried that he is going to betray her just as everybody else has before him. However she is surprised by what comes from him and the other people in the town she has now entered. Zoë one day goes out into the woods and finds a cabin and a trailer. They seem abandoned and lonely. She fixes it up but doesn’t tell anybody about it, she keeps it her little secret. Her teacher gives her a journal to write stuff down in because she is very advanced in writing and reading. In the journal she writes all about the cabin. Around the cabin she is also seeing a white deer and senses something else is with it, but she doesn’t know what. Later somebody steals her journal and the cabin is found ransacked and torn apart. Zoë is devastated. Many random little things happen in this book as well. There are many many side conflicts, like, Zoë befriends this cat that lives in her yard and there is a family that lives a mile down from their house that has some characters that have some other conflicts, but I shouldn’t say them without giving too much away. I actually, surprisingly enjoyed this book. I had heard from, basically everybody that this book was terrible and boring and all this stuff. But I read it anyway, and I liked it. The characters are not super relatable but they are still fun to read about, and I love Mr. C’mere, who is the cat. I found the book interesting and it kept me reading. It would get confusing at times, and there were some random characters that throughout the whole story I never knew who they were, but they didn’t really have much to do with the story anyway so I guess that’s ok. I would give this book probably four out of five stars. I would recommend this book to… uhmmm…I really don’t know. It was a very big change of pace for me, and that might be why I liked it but I don’t really know. Maybe people who like heartwarming stories would like this? I don’t know, I guess that a lot of people should read it and it was a good book and if you like good books than… yeah, you get where I’m going with this. :P less

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